Mark Driscoll makes a distinction between ruling elders, which he is not, and the teaching elder or as Driscoll calls himself, “the primary preaching pastor.” He also says that elders “should be voted in by the elders and installed as an elder by the laying on of hands by the other elders.” Driscoll’s lay-elder rule [...]
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Driscoll’s View on Elder Rule
Posted: March 8, 2012 in LeadershipTags: John Piper, Lay Elder Rule, Mark Dever's Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Mark Driscoll, Plurality of Elders, Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology
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Driscoll’s View on Women Preachers and Deacons
Posted: March 7, 2012 in LeadershipTags: Complementarianism, Deaconesses, Deacons, Egalitarianism, Elders, George Knight III, Hiearchicalism, Home Kent, John Piper, Leadership, Mark Driscoll, Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, The Pastoral Epistles, Thomas R. Schreiner, Vintage Church, Wayne Grudem
This chapter in Vintage Church is summarized by Mark Driscoll in this sentence: “Elders are the male leaders of the church.” Driscoll gives a host of verses (especially 1 Timothy 2:11-3:5) to support his view which he calls “a soft complementarian interpretation of Paul’s commands.” His view permits only men to be elders or pastors but does allow women [...]
Book Review of The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Chapter 5: “Dictatorships in Decision Making”
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Book Reviews, LeadershipTags: Hans Fenzel's The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Mark Dever's Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Peter F. Drucker
Big Idea: No one likes to live under dictators—they take all the fun out of life and work! Hans Finzel also calls dictatorships “the apostolic view of decision making.” This person believes that he or she has special knowledge or an anointing that gives him or her the inside edge on truth” like the apostles [...]
Book Review of The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Chapter 10: “Failure to Focus on The Future”
Posted: January 20, 2011 in Book Reviews, LeadershipTags: Changing the Essence, Hans Finzel's The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Leader's Vision, Leroy Elims Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Martin Van Buren, Richard Beckhard and Wendy Pritchard
“If it works, it’s obsolete” is how Hans Finzel opens this chapter. Our present methods are already obsolete because 1. The future is rushing toward us at breakneck speed. Some leaders, however, fear the future. In 1829, when Martin Van Buren was Governor of New York, he warned President Andrew Jackson not to allow the [...]
Book Review “The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make” Chapter 3: The Absence of Affirmation
Posted: January 10, 2011 in Book Reviews, LeadershipTags: Buck Rodgers' Getting the Best out of Yourself and Others, Hans Finzel's The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make
This chapter answers the question, “What could be better than a pay raise?” “The big idea is that poor leaders demand a great deal from people and never give them a pat on the back for a job well done. Effective leaders realize that most people are motivated more by affirmation and encouragement rather than [...]
How to Sit at the Feet of a Preacher of Yesteryear!
Posted: January 6, 2011 in Homiletics/Preaching, LeadershipTags: Andrew W. Blackwood's Preaching From The Bible, Bramwell Booth's Echoes and Memories, Ernest W. Bacon's Spurgeon: Heir of the Puritans, Helmut Thielicke's Encounter With Spurgeon, Iain Murray's The Forgotten Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Autobiography, The Metroplitan Tabernacle Pulpit, W. Y. Fullerton's C. H. Spurgeon, Warren W. Wiersbe's Walking with the Giants
Since Spurgeon was not televised and Maclaren did not pod cast, does this mean I must leave their beautifully leather bound sermons just to decorate my library shelves? Being personally familiar with a preacher is helpful to benefit from his preaching. Andrew W. Blackwood in his book Preaching from the Bible aids us in getting [...]
Hans Finzel states in his The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, in Chapter 5 that “Dictatorships in Decision Making” is a mistake. The NT is replete with examples of leadership that is not dictatorship. The importance of leadership is seen in the early church (Ryrie, Basic Theology, p 412). 1. Relief funds were sent from Antioch [...]
Book Reveiw “The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make” Chapter 2: Putting Paperwork Before Peoplework
Posted: December 29, 2010 in Book Reviews, LeadershipTags: Hans Finzel's The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, John Maxwell
“Putting Paperwork before Peoplework” is the title of chapter two in The Top Ten Mistake Leaders Make by Hans Finzel. This chapter is about the confessions of a Type A Personality. Finzel says that in spite of living in the telecommunication age “we will only impact people spiritually and permanently by one-on-one contact.” Task-oriented style [...]
Book Reveiw “The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make” Chapter 1: The Top Down Attitude
Posted: December 23, 2010 in Book Reviews, LeadershipTags: Hans Finzel's The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Top-Down Leadership verses Servant Leadership
Chapter One in The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make is: The Top-Down Attitude: The Number One Leadership Hang-up According to Hans Finzel the number one leadership mistake is autocratic leadership verses servant leadership. Top down leadership is dictatorial. Here are some marks of autocratic leadership: 1. Abusive authority 2. Deplorable delegation 3. Lack of listening [...]
Book Review of The Introduction to The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make by Hans Finzel
Posted: December 22, 2010 in Book Reviews, LeadershipTags: Hans Finzel's The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make
In Finzel’s Introduction to The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make he chooses sides in the debate if leaders are born or made. “Top flight leaders aren’t born; they learn by trial and error” (page 21). This should encourage you who think you were not born to lead. His definition agrees with many leadership teachers: “Leadership [...]
