One of the highest compliments you can receive is to hear someone say, “I trust you.”
Don’t take that lightly. Trust takes time to earn but can be lost quickly.
As a leader, trust is usually extended to you upfront. It’s “on loan,” so to speak, until proven untrustworthy.
However, it’s not uncommon for good leaders to be caught by surprise when they are not trusted quite as fully as they thought they were.
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As a church leader, I’m confident you love and care about people, but If you have been leading for more than one week, you have encountered a difficult person or two.
Recently a wonderful volunteer on the hospitality team told me that someone just left because of the coffee. The unhappy attendee said, “This coffee tastes like dirt.” He said it was weak and insisted that we do something about it. It didn’t matter that it was free. (Free is not an excuse for lousy coffee, but thousands of people seem to like it.) The volunteer offered the Starbucks brand, but the attendee was upset that it wasn’t free.
We all can be difficult or have a bad day, but there are chronic personalities that require intentional effort, maturity, and specific skill to lead.
As leaders we are called to love everyone, Jesus made that clear in John 13:34-35, but that does not mean we are to consistently tolerate behavior that harms the people and mission of the church.
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It’s speed and pressure that can cause you to lose sight of some of the basics that are vital to the sustainability of your leadership. It might be in the church, in your home, or maybe in a business venture.
As leaders, we usually talk about things like vision, strategy, staffing, etc., and they are incredibly important. But you and I can blow it, even with the best vision and strategy, if we mess up on the “simple” stuff – the things that are considered common sense.
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Leadership can be lonely, but it shouldn’t be.
Leadership is only lonely at the top if you create your organization or team to function that way.
Yes, you are responsible for the big, hairy, tough decisions, but you don’t make them all alone. You have a team. You have people you talk to.
So, who do you talk to? I mean REALLY talk to?
Of course, God is at the top of the list, but who are the people in your inner circle?
Dan Reiland is the Executive Pastor at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He previously partnered with John Maxwell for 20 years, first as Executive Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, then as Vice President of Leadership and Church Development at INJOY.
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