100. The Spiritual Life of a Leader, with Tod Bolsinger, Executive Director of the Church Leadership Institute

The Church Leadership Institute is a new initiative of Fuller Theological Seminary intended to "form church leaders to lead faithful change in a rapidly changing and disruptive world." 

In this inaugural episode of Spiritual Life and Leadership's partnership with the Church Leadership Institute, Tod Bolsinger and Markus Watson have a conversation about leadership and formation for the sake of God’s mission in a rapidly changing world.

THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• This is the inaugural episode of Spiritual Life and Leadership in partnership with Fuller Theological Seminary’s Church Leadership Institute.
• Most church leaders were trained to be teachers and pastors, not organizational change leaders.
• The Church Leadership Institute is committed to providing all kinds of resources to church leaders who are struggling with leading change in a changing world.
• Tod Bolsinger’s book, Tempered Resilience, is designed to help leaders lead when they are no longer the expert.
• Healthy leadership involves surrender—surrendering to God and surrendering to the reality of our situation.
• The Church Leadership Institute helps people navigate times of fruitful surrender.
• Healthy leadership involves death and resurrection.  Leaders need to die to what they had expected and rise to what God calls us to.
• Leaders need to be grounded in something other than their success at leading change.
• We need to be transformed for the sake of the mission God has given us.
• We need to ask, what are the metrics of the transformed life?
• Markus Watson characterizes the mission of God as the restoration of shalom in the world.
• Markus shares the story of how his church started a Food Pantry in the town of Westmorland, CA.
• Leaders who navigate change well create an environment of experimentation.
• “Don’t predict.  Prototype.”
• The Church Leadership Institute offers four broad types of resources to help leaders in churches lead change well:
  • Courses
  • Coaching
  • Cohorts
  • Consulting
• To find out more about the Church Leadership Institute, go to www.depree.org/church or text  CHANGE to 66866.

RELEVANT RESOURCES AND LINKS:

• Church Leadership Institute:
  • www.depree.org/church
  • Text CHANGE to 66866
• CLI Course
  • From Surviving to Thriving: Leading Your Church Into a Post Pandemic World
• Related episodes:
  • Ep. 16: Canoeing the Mountains, with Tod Bolsinger
  • Ep. 82:  Narcissim and Spiritual Leadership, with Chuck DeGroat
  • Ep. 83:  Disorientation and Spiritual Leadership, with Tod Bolsinger
• Books mentioned:
  • Canoeing the Mountains, by Tod Bolsinger
  • Tempered Resilience, by Tod Bolsinger
  • When Narcissism Comes to Church, by Chuck DeGroat

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