Healing to Lead, Part 1

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

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🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

“Every person is a leader in some form. Every person is influencing others to some degree - whether you're a pastor or whether you're managing your children's soccer team, you are in the middle of something complex and difficult,” says Dr. Dan Allender, as he kicks off the conversation with Rachael Clinton Chen and Linda Royster.

In this week’s podcast episode, we consider the paradox of leadership that Moses experienced leading the Israelites. Being in a leadership position is an honor and a calling, but it often comes with significant challenges and complexities. How does a reluctant leader grapple with the lament they feel while being compelled by their calling and purpose?

“We can’t escape the call to lead because… there is hope for more. There’s hope for goodness. There is a call and a burden for people to experience freedom. That’s in part what makes it bearable for me… You move forward because hope abides and comfort does come,” shares Linda.

Next week, we’ll return to talk about the the importance of leaders first experiencing their own healing in order to engage those they serve with kindness, goodness, and hope.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:29.9	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. In a day and age where a recent study indicated that 80% of pastors would leave the pastorate this day if they had
0:44.0	an equivalent salary in another setting. We are in a day where leadership has increased
0:51.6	in difficulty almost to a point of a being unimaginable.
0:57.3	Leadership is always difficult, always.
1:00.2	But we have to say that in a rage-filled, polarized, highly contemptuous day
1:08.0	where the other side, whatever side that might be, needs to be excoriated,
1:14.5	if not expunge from existence, leaders are attempting to manage, to grow, and indeed resolve
1:24.7	levels of conflict that exceed again, anything that I've seen in my number of
1:33.7	decades on this earth.
1:35.1	So we want to open up the discussion, what it means to lead well.
1:40.9	But we're going to begin with this category, healing to lead. Not a first. We're going
1:47.7	to address healing in a second conversation. But we want to first open the door to what's the
1:56.7	reality of leading and stating very clearly, every person's a leader in some form.
2:03.3	Every person is influencing others to some degree, but particularly those who are in more
2:13.2	formal leadership positions, whether you're a pastor or whether you're managing your children's
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