Leadership in Times of Change

This last day of February, in the shortest month of the year, and already the year feels long.

• Wars and rumor of wars
• Earthquakes, sinkholes, rumbling in volcanic mountains
• Disease - pestilence
• Weather
• Angry people losing power that should not have originally been granted to them
• Warring factions in DC
• Job loss
• 2012 Mayan prophecy
• States considering legislation to allow bankruptcy.

All of these are just a simple result of natural process, politics and people being people. Right? God is not involved. This news is just the stuff of life – natural.

And so, we escape. Today, after the night of the Oscars - when decked out to the nines, America celebrates fantasy with less than refined language, multiple sexual orientations and glorification of the body (pretty/handsome people). Today, life goes on. The news this morning is filled with death, murder, fires, wars (real and word) and a pretty depressed view of life.

What’s a leader to do? The leader in the King’s speech (movie) overcame stuttering and spoke in a manner and with the kind of message that helped lead his people.

Our leader, the King of Kings, never has stuttered and always has spoken clearly. He told us that the “groaning” of the world we hear today (like a woman giving birth) was to be expected in the time before he comes again. If Jesus Christ is not risen from the dead, Christianity is nice, but certainly not necessary; therefore, leaders, clearly in touch with their eternal purpose, can lead even in the fog of life. Their ethic is based on a eternal standard. Their worldview has a clear picture of the end and a coherent picture of the past and present.

Christian leaders in business and life can remain hopeful with bad news. The news that counts is eternal. And known.

Are you leading like you know (trust & believe) the end?


Copyright (c) 2011 P. Griffith Lindell