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Exploring an Ancient Way of Leadership for Modern Times

October 19, 2018 Stephen W. Smith
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What you are going to read is the fruit of my work with leaders in ministry.  I've spent over forty years in the grass root ways of leadership, mainly in the local church but for the past twenty years, in providing soul care for leaders who serve in the market place and ministry.

As the world has changed so much and with increasing speed and erosion of some core values, we are all the witnesses to implosions in churches as well as organizations and including politics. It is a systemic disease and what I have called in the past a "cult of leadership" that is converging with other concerning factors about the state of the soul; the state of the church and the state of the world. See that article here!I have spent considerable time in my work with leaders on nearly all of the continents.

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In Inside Job, Leadership, Potter's Inn, Sabbatical, Soul Care Tags a prayer for ministers, leadership, leadership crisis, Potter's Inn, re-thinking leadership, the cult of leadership
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