Spiritual Life and Leadership

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

Markus Watson

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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.


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