Thought for the day....

I was pondering in the shower this morning about my pursuit of leadership, leadership knowledge, and what it means to be a leader.  Most people, especially in the corporate world, seek a leadership position to feel that he or she is finally a leader.  Then it dawned on me.  This is such a simple concept, but I think most of us blow right over this simple fact: leadership is a quality, not a position or title.  Be a leader wherever life has you.  Serve others, lead well, and the leadership "titles" will certainly follow.  


We've been going through the Beatitudes in church the past several weeks and Jesus' sermon on  the mount is so many things, including an upside down view on leadership (at least our modern views on leadership).  "Be humble," "Hunger and thirst for righteousness," "Be pure in heart," "Be a peacemaker."  Not things you find in too many tomes on leadership in the 21st century!  

Agreement w/ Chris

As my worship leader and friend has mentioned in his blog (see my blog links), our worship rehearsal went really well last night. I readily admit I LOVE playing bass! Something about driving the band harmonically and rhythmically and rounding out its sound is pretty darn awesome! On the other end of that scale is my proficiency at playing acoustic guitar . . . terrible. I just had my first "official" lesson with Chris and I've got a lot of work to do! Its so much different than playing bass, my fingers keep touching multiple strings and making horrible buzzing and muted tones, and having all of this musical knowledge in my head and not being able to instantly get it out on the guitar is frustrating to say the least. Practice, practice, practice. That's the key to getting better. Hopefully I can hold out on smashing the guitar before then!

I'm famous!

This blog is going big time! Not really, but one of my professors is "observing" my blog for the seminary to get a better feel on what is "actually" being learned, discussed, and argued in the seminary community. I think its a good thing for the administration to try to better understand the student experience, but I think one thing that would help tremendously is just a better line of communication between the administration and the student body in general. We'll see how this study works itself out in practice. It's a good start!

Here we go . . .

In the era of Facebook, etc. I'm going to try and go somewhat "old school" and have my own blogsite! Should be fun . . . hopefully.