Christian Leadership
Christlike leadership is leadership that equips others
and emphasizes humility with sacrificial service.
Goal #1
I will seek to understand the gifts and weaknesses
of the people in my family, community and team.
Goal #2
I will exhort those around me in love
and patience to confront sin in their lives.
Artifacts
Encourage One Another
Encouraging Spiritual Gifts
Confront One Another
How to have that Cruicial Converstion
Reflection Statements
Overall
For my competence in Christian Leadership, I am submitting a blog post on practicing intentional encouragement, a blog post on practicing loving confrontation, and two infographics that synthesize and summarize what I have learned on these topics over the last two semesters. These artifacts demonstrate my ability to research, practice, and reflect on biblical principles applied in interpersonal and leadership settings. The blog posts demonstrate my ability to practice intentional growth in my relationships with others and reflect on my strengths and shortcomings as I endeavor to lead others in a way that serves them well. The infographics demonstrate my ability to digest and communicate principles based on what I am learning, as well as my appreciation for making complicated ideas accessible. From this experience, I learned that it can be both difficult and very rewarding to practice intentional growth in a leadership setting. In the process, I learned to practice patience and grace with myself and others in our journeys towards Christlikeness.
Learning
As I developed and demonstrated Christian Leadership, I learned that reading about better leadership and practicing better leadership are two very different things. Because I made an effort to be intentional about my growth in encouragement and confrontation, I was more aware of my shortcomings to put what I was reading about into practice. On top of this, I learned that becoming frustrated with my lack of progress was not helpful for my personal growth. Instead, being willing to confront my own shortcomings, persisting in improvement, and relying on God to produce different attitudes and actions within me, proved to be the most helpful method for growth. I also learned that the people I led appreciated my intentionality, even if my attempts to practice better encouragement or confrontation were imperfect, which I found very encouraging.
Lifelong
As a result of the experiences documented by these artifacts, I will continue to develop in Christian Leadership by improving my confrontation and conflict-management skills in addition to other areas of leadership and life. As I practiced and reflected on my experiences discussing difficult topics with others, I noticed that this skill came easier in some settings than in others. I want to continue to practice what I have learned from my research these past two semesters until I can deal with conflict in a God-honoring way with more confidence, in any setting. Dealing with conflict well is incredibly crucial for working with and leading others in cross-cultural settings especially and I want to do all I can to foster relational growth even under these difficult circumstances.