We teach on the character of leadership, leadership traits, develop leadership teams, buy leadership curriculum to take our students through so they can be better leaders. WHY?
Because leadership is the new buzz word in church and I think we drank the Kool-Aid without thinking.
Leadership, in it's essence, is a spiritual gift given by the Holy Spirit from God to his children.
Do you focus as much time, energy, study, preparation, research and conversation with other on any of the other Spiritual Gifts that your youth would have received?
When we give our youth examples of anyone they should look up to we instinctively parade before them "leaders" and 9.5 out of 10 times they are male. Why?
Do we not know any women who lead in the history of Christianity? Where have all the women gone in our stories, in our conversations? Why do we always need to be reminded of the women of faith and not just remember them?
Women who have the spiritual gift of leadership or any of the other spirit gifts for that matter. Start using them as examples as you speak to your youth. Know the history of the women of the Christian faith.
An focus more on the spiritual gifts then on the office that someone holds.
Here's a brief movie clip about a movie that has a female hero in the lead role for the first time in the history of PIXAR. It's time that we start sharing about the female heroes of the Christian faith as well.
by Disney/PIXAR
1 comment:
GETSOME!! It's true, females need more examples. I seriously thought females couldn't speak. One church I went as teen taught that women weren't allowed to preach. I was hostile towards it, but then the two examples of female pastors in the denomination I was a part of as a teen and my 1st year at college...THEY WERE BRUTAL SPEAKERS!!! I then thought it's not that women aren't allowed to preach, they can't preach. Until I attended a church in Winnipeg for a course I was taking. They had a female pastor and she was dynamic, funny, and preached the gospel in a way that no man could from the mothering heart of God perspective. It was brilliant. That changed things for me. Thanks for sharing guy.
Alison Springer
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