Slightly more in depth than that - I really reccomend it for a good short read. He's lucid, that Brian! I think that so many other emergent writers can be incredibly waffley.... (Dont be put off that he was voted something like Americas top evangelist hehe)I found that the article once again raised big time questions about the stlye of leadership the Salvation Army rewards, very much the "I know everything, and might enlighten you through being very authoritarian" type, rather than the servant model we have in Jesus. What do people reckon?
Have some exciting few days ahead- Off to a big planning day in Wellington with the social policy unit tomorrow, which will be interesting, and then whipping of to the beautiful Raurimu for a FUEL retreat, leading a session on Poverty and Trade, armed to the eyeballs with some fantastic Tearfund videos sent from my sister. Thanks Jo.
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Great analogy. Too many churches look to the mega church with all the lights and action. The great speaker that while he might not believe what he is saying, he certainly does a good job saying it. Dorth walked with the people. Befriended, helped, encouraged... all on the way to the promise land.
Awesome. Maybe I live in a box, or maybe its been too long since seeing the movie but I had never really thought of the connection.
Cheers,
Peter
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Yep, Jo, you should read Danielle Stricklands rant in the latest JAC
http://www.armybarmy.com/article1a.html
It is just a quick (empassioned!) look at that exact thing specific to the Army thing.
Even politically, people say NZ is cutting edge gender wise, because of our female PM's. But these women leaders have allmale characteristics, and its as if they have only "made it" because they have adopted Authoritarian and Aggressive leadership models. I am not saying women aren't naturally this, some indeed are, more so than males, but our current situ is that there are some traits specific to femalehood that utterly compromise any natural leadership gifting/calling.
Hey Bec, yeah, I would agree that God has created everyone with different stylz and skillz, (hehe) and should be free to lead with and through them. But, as it stands, the Dorothy model/ or maybe female model?? as it stands has very little chance of really getting anywhere very far. I can think of some army leaders whome i observe often, who naturally would prefer to lead in a Dorothy style, but are required to act Wizardly in order to gain any respect.
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