Honoring Leadership Pt. 3
Dear 2020, you have left your mark, you continue to leave your mark and has sent our world into chaos. Chaos, at the end of the day, is confusion. Everyone on earth was confused and disoriented for a good part of 2020 and maybe even into 2021. Most people feel the compulsion to something when chaos hits, look for the easiest person to blame. This is the human condition, most people are lashing out because control is out of their grasp.
Good thing you work in a church and people are always kind and gracious to their pastors when it comes to decision making. (Insert snarky emoji)
Church people can be the most cruel.
But if I were to ask you in an honest moment about frustration you have with leadership at your church you may reciprocate the vitriol.
How many of us had to deal with the fallout of the leaderships decisions at our churches or organizations? Right, Wrong, or anything in between meant that we needed to deal with the reactions from the people that we shepherd.
Maybe, a decision got made for you that you weren’t 100% in agreement with.
Regardless of what happened. You have an obligation and the privilege to honor your leadership in any of this circumstances.
3 ways you can honor leadership well:
Don’t Point The Finger
The easiest thing for any leader to do is to pass blame and just point the finger. This usually will get you out of a tough conversation. However, what this does is completely through your leader under the bus, undermine their leadership and convey distrust to the person you are talking to. There is nothing worse you can do than point the finger.
Champion Hard
The opposite of pointing the finger is championing your leader as hard as you can. This means that you double down on the vision, strategy and direction coming down from senior leadership. You buy in and go after it. (Obviously, as long as it doesn’t go against God’s word) The greatest way to honor well is to follow well. Champion hard.
Come Up With Solutions
If you disagree with decisions or you know the organization is in a hard spot, come up with possible solutions. The best way to honor leadership is to join them in coming up with a solution. You may have the answer in your head, or you may have an idea that leads to the best solution in your head. Keeping ideas to yourself doesn’t honor leadership or the people following your church/organization. Be someone who looks for solutions when obstacles come up.
It’s not always easy, its actually hard at times. Honoring leadership is preparing you to lead at a higher level and you just don’t realize it.
