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So how does the Church survive in the time of Covid? One day during a Q&A session with Jesus, this query was raised: “If I am to love my neighbor as myself, then who is my neighbor?” Jesus followed with the story of the Good Samaritan. It was shocking to his Jewish audience, to say the least. He expressed a radical culturally-contrarian servanthood. In the early Church, the ethic of the Sermon on the Mount created a servant culture that was absolutely breathtaking.Love your e

Last week I wrote about vulnerability…you can read it here. But I want to hammer on this a little more. And here’s why. I have seen too many leaders with strong leadership gifts fall apart because of character issues or lack of self-awareness. Some were spiritually mature but emotionally under-developed, others were emotionally mature and spiritually under-developed. How many leaders were in the news over the last few years because of character failure? Every leader has to be

The organizational behavior philosopher Charles Handy made reference to an exercise known as the Johari Window. The Johari exercise offers fifty-six character descriptions from which a person chooses six to best describe themselves while their peers are given the same list to choose six, helping to identify the blind spots and hopefully giving the assessee a truer picture of who they are. Quadrant 1 is that part of us that we know about ourselves and others know as well—that’

About 35 years ago, the Journal of Community Psychology featured a landmark article by David McMillan and David Chavis outlining four foundational factors contributing to a sense of community. Since then, numerous studies and researchers have largely affirmed their findings. These four critical factors are: (1) Membership, (2) Influence, (3) Integration and Fulfillment of Needs, and (4) Shared Emotional Connections. But two of them have an overwhelming percentage of that four