The Reluctant Leader

We should bless men and women who have done their level best to escape leadership but who have been compelled to return and put their hand on the tiller. We should expect anyone who remains in a formal leadership context to experience repeated bouts of flight, doubt, surrender, and return. Why would this be God's plan? Why does God love the reluctant leader? Here is one reason: the reluctant leader is not easily seduced by power, pride, or ambition.

Dan Allender in Leading With a Limp, p18.

Comments

[ryanv]

awesome quote, thanks for quoting it. Moses is a great example of a reluctant leader.

[Jonathan Herron]

Bro, I just picked this book up last week too! Already into Chapter Two - - such great stuff...