Thursday, May 01, 2008

Leadership Issue: Dealing with Change

If you're a leader, you're going to be in a position to be leading others through a change. It's tough. In any change situation, there's going to be someone who perceives they lose out.

There are cats out there -- and you can't be sure if they're pussycats, alleycats, or lions and tigers. So we focus on Christ and his direction for us, and not our fears from cats (of whatever size).

I encourage you to review Nehemiah 4 for some guidance on how we as leaders can handle these situations. We rely on God (v4-5), respect the opposition (v9), reinforce the weak points (v13), move our resources around to match needs, without stopping the work (v16), reassure God's people (v14) and refuse to quit (v15).

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