Is Aspiring Wrong?

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this solo episode, Kurt considers the concept of aspiring to lead and shares ideas and experiences prompted by a series of newsletter messages. Highlights 4:15 Where the topic of aspiring started in the newsletter 8:25 Responses to newsletter messages: Is it okay for someone to aspire? 9:40 Quotes about not aspiring 11:00 Hypothetical situation and survey: Harry wants to be bishop 13:00 Aspiring can be a form of pride and a hunger for power; who is this teaching turning away? 15:20 Who was the first person to ever aspire to a calling? There are aspirations that aren't based in pride/power/glory 17:10 Truman Madsen quote of Joseph Smith's statement on aspiring 19:00 Letter from James: aspiring distracts from revelation 22:30 We are encouraged to aspire to some callings, or at least not discouraged 24:00 Why would anyone even want to lead? 1 Timothy 3:1 God's remarkable vision speaks to our souls 27:15 Lift where you stand, but formal leadership callings simplify the process of discipleship 30:00 Unintended consequences of the teaching not to aspire: Putting leaders on pedestals; questioning a few sacred cultural cows 33:10 Dynamic of individuals who do not have the same leadership opportunities 37:00 Leads to individuals seeking personal validation through leadership 40:45 Unintentionally disenfranchises the most capable; creates a culture of fear 43:10 Accidentally diminish our God-given desire for influence and purpose 48:45 Observations/ideas to improve the culture: Liberate the capable by encouraging influence from everyone Don't shrink from influence No more pedestals Create more seats at the table We need more examples of the desire for influence: aim to be on the list for consideration Don't diminish a calling by highlighting the sacrifices When we label the desire to influence as prideful, only the prideful seek to influence Destigmatize the desire to lead Links From Baptist Preacher to Latter-day Saint | An Interview with Gary Miller Truman Madsen lectures Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Note: This transcript was machine-produced. We would be grateful for help correcting errors. You can help! Simply copy/paste the transcript text into a document, make the corrections, and then copy/paste the corrected text into a comment on the page (below) and we will get the corrected text published!

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0:00.0	Hey, a quick note before we jump into this episode. Here at Leading Saints, we are trying to do more how I lead interviews. Now, what's a how I lead interview? You've probably heard
0:14.2	him before. It's where we find everyday leaders around the world who are serving in one
0:18.9	capacity or another, maybe an Elderscore president, Leaf Society President, the Ward Mission Leader,
0:23.6	High Councilor, Steak Presidency Councilors, so many different
0:26.8	callings of leadership that we have in our faith tradition and we like to sit down
0:30.8	with them one-to to one and just say,
0:32.6	how is it that you lead?
0:33.9	Give us a few principles.
0:35.2	Put it into perspective.
0:36.2	What's your area like?
0:37.2	And these turn into phenomenal resources
0:39.7	of best practices, and it's just always fun to hear
0:42.4	what the other guy is doing.
0:43.6	So if you know somebody who we could interview on the How I Lead segment, regardless of their
0:48.2	calling, we would love to connect with them.
0:50.1	Go to leading Saints.org, slash contact and send us the information, maybe give them a heads up,
0:55.1	and we'd love to reach out to them, connect, and see if we can get them on the
0:58.2	leading Saints podcast for one of our How I Lead segments.
1:01.2	Again, go to leading Saints.org, org slash contact and send us the information.
1:05.1	So my name is Bea Woodwell. I'm from Pleasant, California and
1:14.9	leading Saints have been instrumental for me as I served as a Relief Society
1:20.1	President. And also I'm definitely sharing this with my husband who's serving as a
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