I admit — even as a leadership development guru, I go through seasons of grumbling. Some days I feel stuck, as if the clouds just won’t lift. I put on a positive face, but inside, everything feels gray. Sometimes, I’m smiling on the outside but sobbing on the inside. Do you have those days too?
As part of my Leadership Development work, I recently started reading Boys Adrift: The 5 Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax, MD, PHD. In the first 4 chapters, he's talking primarily to those involved in educating and training today's K-12 students about these trends:
As a potential leader moves into ministry, God develops his leadership abilities by taking him through four stages. (1) God challenges the leader into ministry. This is called entry. (2) He develops skills and spiritual gifts to enhance the leader’s effectiveness. This is called training....
