From The Cheap Seats

Iceberg

One of my mentees this year sat down with me and just said that he wanted to focus on the idea of leadership, but not just leadership from the Pastor stand point on-stage, but what is leadership like off-stage. I was blown away. I mean I've heard people say that who you are as a leader has everything to do with who you are off-stage but noone ever really talks about it. So as we began to dive into this idea of leadership the first idea we ran across was by a guy named Tim Elmore from his book Habitudes. This idea is about an iceberg. The top 10% of this iceberg is what everyone sees. This is who we are on stage, and this is the area I believe we focus on the most. We want the outward appereance to be the most beautiful part of who we are. But as Tim Elmore rights "It was the 90% that sunk the Titanic, the ship that the captain said not even God could destroy". Such an interesting thought the 90% of who we are can make or break our entire ministry. Yet we don't really focus on it. My first blog on leadership has to be about this. Who we are as a leader off-stage matters so much more than who we are on stage. A leader with a quality life style is so much more effective in ministry than one who is a really good communicator and lots of fun. Our hearts have to be connected with God for us to be an effective leader in ministry. So my friends spend time with your Creator, let Him develop that 90% and be covered in the dust of your Rabbi!

posted by Micah Dormann @ 3:18 PM