God's kingdom happens when human beings are empowered by God's Spirit to do God's kingdom work in the shape of a new community.

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

In other words, if you wanted good government, then expertise mattered. You needed public institutions stocked with people whose job it was to pay attention to important stuff so the rest of us citizens didn't have to.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No

I don't find pastors and professors, for the most part, very interested in matters of formation in holiness. They have higher profile things to tend to.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Princes and princesses are commissioned to see the people they lead reach their full potential in God. That means that the greatest compliment we can ever have is when the people we are leading become greater than us. If we believe that we are leading because we are the most qualified, then we will subconsciously work to undermine other people's advancements.

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

God's purpose for the Christian's involvement in the church was radically different from my gas-station approach. The church wasn't merely a place to swing by for a fill-up. The journey of the Christian faith was supposed to be made with other believers. The church isn't a gas station, I realized. It's the bus I'm supposed to be traveling on.

Evangelism is more than simply encouraging decisions for Christ. It is urging people to become disciples—followers—of Jesus Christ. As such, the evangelist has a responsibility to make growth in discipleship possible for those who come to faith under his ministry.

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.