Archive for July 20th, 2009
Are you helping your team members reach their potential? (79-1)
Experienced leaders should have a plan to help inexperienced leaders reach their potential. Read Judges 6.This passage tells a story of an ordinary person who followed God. Gideon lived in the time of Israel’s judges (about 1300 B.C.). Because Israel had stopped obeying God and embraced the foreign gods, the Lord had put Israel under Midianite domination for seven years. The Midianite oppression was so severe and cruel that many of the Israelites had moved into caves in the mountains to escape it.
God chose Gideon as His leader to deliver his people from the Midianite rule. No one who knew Gideon would have guessed he would be God’s choice for His leader. In fact Gideon didn’t believe it himself at first. The narrative in chapter 6 demonstrates God’s accommodation to help Gideon understand God’s call.
Tags: Convinced by God, Decisions, Development, doubt, Mentoring