Christian Leadership Essentials Summary

Reading Reflection: Christian Leadership Essentials

Summary

When it comes to leading people, it becomes a laborious task. It takes a unique individual to be able to lead people. As a leader, you will encounter many obstacles, and a person must be able to cope with these obstacles and be able to keep a level head so that you can get things going back in the right direction. Furthermore, through hard work and dedication success is inevitable. Christian Leadership Essentials is a brilliant book by David Dockery (2011), to all leaders and inspiring leaders. There are many concepts that he provided in this book. I will be discussing four of the concepts here in this paper. The first concept that stuck out to me in the reading material is when the author spoke about being knowledgeable. It is crucial for leaders to be knowledgeable about life, reality, their business, ministry, and work (Dockery, 2011). When a leader knows what they are doing, it will assist them in making the right decisions for the best of all. When a leader is knowledgeable about what is going on, it will help gain trust from the people that they are leading. When people are following you, they look for assurance from the leader that he/she knows what they are doing and where they are trying to achieve. Also, when a leader

It is vital for a leader to have sought God on a vision and mission for the ministry. “Every person in a leadership role must have a strong, clear understanding of that mission and be committed to doing whatever they can to make the institution strong and effective” (Dockery, 2011). Vision is necessary because you must first know what you are trying to get accomplished. The mission is critical because it is the means of what steps you are going to take to achieve the vision. Once the leader has a clear understanding of the vision and mission, it is his job to make sure that at everyone involved