Becoming a Spiritual Leader [antikvár]

ForewordThe Rev Dr Russ ParkerIt was Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his book The Cost of Discipleship who pointed out that when Jesus calls us to follow him, he is calling us to die! But, you may ask, "Die to what?" Certainly not to being truly human, if Patrick Whitworth's book is anything to go by. What he brings alive are the dynamic encounters between Peter and Jesus. Here we witness the growth and development of this first leader of the fledgling church, which seems to be more a case of painfully won insights from the school of hard knocks than clinical reflections from a rabbi's seminar. This is a book about developing a quality of leadership that Jesus would be pleased with. It is earned through enduring dialogue in which we get increasingly honest and vulnerable with God, with ourselves and with others. Patrick paints a wonderfully alive picture of Peter journeying from professed strength to confessed weakness. It is here that he makes a key statement about godly and effective leadership, when he writes that a sense of personal inadequacy is a far better quality for leadership than a sense of one's abilities.This book invites us to walk alongside Peter and learn from his struggles to come to terms with his true humanity and calling, as well as feel the full impact and depth of Jesus, the man who is God. On the way we learn the value of not being