Leadership Skills

Recently I had an (Internet) conversation with a minister who is in leadership development. He asked me what I thought about "leadership skills". I understood this to mean survival skills. Call it skills for comfortable, confident ministry. I wrote back: "One can learn skills which serve as a prop yet don't necessarily solve the problem. The solution, I think, lies in a few simple spiritual attitudes. Most basically, 'I (not you) will build my Church' [Matt 16:18]." OBSERVATION: The question of organisational or strategic skills came up later in the conversation. I hope to post on that soon. Survival skills, incidentally, are no small matter, with estimates showing that up to 95% of ministers in the USA do not survive long-term.