Intercepting Entropy

This is a profound leadership principle. Leighton Ford’s 1991 IVP book Transforming Leadership: Jesus’ Way of Creating Vision, shaping Values & Empowering Change, captures the concept wonderfully. Everything has a tendency to deteriorate, and a leader must learn the signals of impending deterioration. Some of these are:
- A tendency toward superficiality
- A “dark tension” among key people
- No time for celebration
- Problem-makers outnumber problem-solvers
- Day-to-day pressures push aside vision and risk
Have you ever seen this in a church? One of the most important jobs of a leader is to SUSTAIN. Spiritual leaders need to learn this before it’s too late.
(In coming weeks: what remains unchanged for the church? How to sustain, what to sustain; the ‘chasing chipmunks’ leadership style ;)