When It's Time to Say No to Leading: Part 2

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🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Saying no to leadership opportunities, and the increased impact and influence they can afford, is not a topic talked about very often today. For that we need to look at the work of the Holy Spirit in the history of the church. In Part 2 of this series, Pete looks at two towering figures in particular: Bernard of Clairvaux and Gregory of Nazianzus.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:03.0	My name is Pete Scazzaro.
0:05.0	And today is a part two on the theme of when it's time to say no to leading or leadership opportunities.
0:10.0	When it's time to say no to leadership opportunities.
0:12.0	This topic is so key, so important that I knew I needed to do two parts on it, not just one.
0:20.0	So last week we talked about three, I talked about
0:21.8	three reasons when it's time to say no to leadership opportunities. You know, our inner life,
0:26.1	or maturity's not ready. God's limits have come to us, and it's one of the ways God's saying to us,
0:31.2	no, or God's voice and timing. We just, God's voice, God's speaking, and we just have a sense of notice this is not it.
0:44.3	And so as I said last week, as it says, Paul writes that he desires to lead to be an overseer desires a good thing. It's beautiful. And Paul is very much committed to raising up leaders.
0:49.0	He says to Timothy, the things I passed on to you and trust to faithful men and women who in turn will be able to teach others also.
0:56.4	And so, yes, it's true. Some of us are reluctant to lead for reasons that we want to avoid suffering or pain, don't want the responsibility.
1:03.9	And in that case, we need to hear the words of Paul to Timothy, you know, fan into flame the gift of God that's inside of you.
1:13.0	You know, Timothy was timid and fearful to take leadership in that grueling church he was leading in the city of Ephesit.
1:19.1	But I'm more concerned here in this podcast about those of us who just flippantly step into
1:24.1	leadership opportunities. We see growth, we see expansion, we think it's all good,
1:29.2	and we're not that thoughtful or prayerful about it, and almost treating church leadership like
1:33.4	moving up a ladder, bigger, better, faster. If you're wondering, why are you citing so much church
1:38.5	history? Why are you bringing all these people in? And the reason is because it's so foreign to us, this idea of slow in the 21st
1:48.1	century West, especially in the evangelical Western Church. It's a culture that if we're going to
1:53.9	learn about the slowness in ways of God, we've got to learn from the historical church.
1:58.4	We'll go back 2,000 years and the global church as well. And so I want
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