{"id":191,"date":"2007-01-08T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2013-06-28T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:01:43","slug":"leadership-equals-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Equals Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently been sent the following quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGreat-Leader-Teacher-Recovering-Leadership%2Fdp%2F0802411479%2Fsr%3D11-1%2Fqid%3D1168280574&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Great Leader, Great Teacher: Recovering the Biblical Vision for Leadership <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"eqnoxeshosnsbycfxqoj\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> by Gary Bredfeldt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have been hoodwinked. We have come to accept a standard for leadership that actually robs the church of great leaders. The standing-status-success standard is not a biblical standard: it is the world&#8217;s standard. Pastors are not to be CEOs, and our best models are not corporate executives, coaches, generals, and presidents. Far from it &#8230; the biblical leader is, first and foremost, a skilled and godly shepherd-teacher &#8230; Here then is an alternative standard of leadership effectiveness from the standing-status-success model offered by the world. It is a standard that describes leadership in terms of personal relationship, sacrificial care, and secure and abundant provision.&#8221; (52, 54)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know anything else about the book, but I resonate deeply with this quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently been sent the following quote from Great Leader, Great Teacher: Recovering the Biblical Vision for Leadership by Gary Bredfeldt: &#8220;We have been hoodwinked. We have come to accept a standard for leadership that actually robs the church of great leaders. The standing-status-success standard is not a biblical standard: it is the world&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Leadership Equals Teaching&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}