In the absence of clear boundaries between work and non-work for us, our drift is always upwards towards doing more and away from ministering with a quiet spirit. We can a lot but find that none of it is fresh any more. Large quatities of ministry isn’t necessarily good ministr

what do leadership patterns look like for me that allow me to lead out of a place of stillness with God, joy in God and a personal, white hot passion for the glory of God? What leadership patterns would make me stray out and stay out of that place? What will put me, for the long haul in a place of spiritual vitality and capacity, what demands would put me in a place of long term attrition for my soul?

Let me say this carefully – but I really mean it – it is possible for a desire for excellence to replace a passion for the glory of God. The tendency is to elitify everything and for slick presentation to take over from all the saints doing the work of ministry. And for us to justify it to ourselves because what else was all that hard study in aid of, if not for us to do everything to a higher standard than anyone else can?

Growing in spiritual leadership means increasingly living and leading in faith to make all the believers are radically God-centred, radically concerned for his glory, radically concerned to spread the fame of his glory and the call to submit to him and be worshippers of him around the world.

The thing that causes people to get attached to structures and activities past their sell by date, is being unclear about the purpose and identity of the church and being unclear about their part in it. When they fail to see that the reason for doing this or that is the glory of God and the extension of the kingdom, when they fail to see that their service flows out of loving and furthering God’s glory, then structure rather than biblical vision is at the centre.