In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
By Henri J. M. Nouwen
November 11, 2008
This book is one of the few books I come back to again and again. In the deluge of business literature on leadership, this one stands against the grain and gives leadership back its soul.
He calls us to three movements: from relevance to prayer, from popularity to ministry, and from leading to being led. In it all, Nouwen strips away anything that smacks of Empire-building — like our slick marketing and big ministry budgets — so that our very centers are deeply immersed in the presence of God.
Nouwen offers me a corrective that I have to come back to each year, just to remind myself what I was called to do as a minister of the gospel.
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