{"id":16901,"date":"2018-03-07T12:53:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=16901"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:53:49","slug":"no-pain-no-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/no-pain-no-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"No Pain No Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16902\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-1-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-1.jpeg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16903\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-2-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-2-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-2-150x94.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pain-2.jpeg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When ever you work hard toward a goal, there will be pain. If you are building body muscles, there is pain. If you are losing weight, there is pain. If you give birth, there is pain. Can we say, anything worth while its worth to go through the pain?<\/p>\n<p>Leadership in Pain<\/p>\n<p>Author Samuel Chand is a leadership consultant. At the beginning of the first chapter, he says that &#8220;leadership that doesn&#8217;t produce pain is either in a short season of unusual blessing or it isn&#8217;t really making a difference.&#8221; (5) In an interview with, Joseph LaLonde, Chand stated that \u201cwe must recognize the pain, embrace the pain, and then review the lessons we learned through the pain.\u201d <a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> There were three principles he identified in his book in hopes to provide courage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See pain as your greatest teacher<\/li>\n<li>Let the vision drive you<\/li>\n<li>Have a rigorous personal development plan (20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How we react or embrace our pain defines our future. Many people develop unforgiveness in their heart as a result of their experienced pain which can create a barricade in one\u2019s relationship with God and others. God promotes forgiveness. Matthew 6:14 states \u201cfor if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.\u201d We, Christians, many times believe God forgives us unconditionally but we have trouble forgiving others unconditionally. The pain from that hurt haunts us until we release its power over us. We, Christians, many times quote to ourselves and to others, 1Corinthians 10:13 that \u201che won\u2019t give us more than we can bear.\u201d \u00a0But we must also remember Romans 8:34, that \u201cwe are more than conquerors.\u201d This is the purpose of Chand\u2019s book, trying to help leaders process the pain.<\/p>\n<p>To further explain his theory on Leadership in Pain, he made several references to author Philip Yancey\u2019s books, as well as Gary McIntosh and Samuel Rima book, <em>Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership<\/em>. He cited from their book \u201cpain that causes perfectionism, the thirst for approval, and the insatiable drive to succeed actually propel a leader to excel. Thus pain can catapult a leader toward success.\u201d (79-80) In our course reading, another author Vries wrote: \u201cPain in the system can be seen as the main lever that sets the change process in motion.\u201d <a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> If one gets mad enough, they may make a change which could produce a positive motion. Pain could be viewed as an antibiotic to an infection where the individual is paralyzed in an unhealthy situation. In other words, God is working in us to develop us and move us to a better experience or high position but we can\u2019t let go of what we currently have or experienced. Pain comes in and forces us to let go.<\/p>\n<p>Chand states that we need a pain partner to successfully make it through. He states that &#8220;leaders in business, nonprofits, and churches desperately need to find someone who has no agenda except to listen without judging and love without any strings attached.&#8221; The partners should provide you emotional support and also be your accountability partner.<\/p>\n<p>Chand wrote this book through his observance of leaders working through their pain in leadership. \u00a0At the beginning of each chapter, he shares their stories. One of those stories included one of my favorite people, Pastor Sheryl Brady. During her time of pain, a suffering church they birth, \u201cshe read 1 Corinthians 10:13. She compared the dwindling of the church to God allowing Elijah&#8217;s brook to dry up forcing them to move to another assignment. She made a few points: (a) It was a training session \u2013 God was building a successful leader; (b) Forgive the process, then God works it for our good, and (c) Thank God for the training session.\u201d (227-33)<\/p>\n<p>After each chapter, Chand provides an action plan to assist the reader through the process of pain. First, he provides a quote under the subtitle, \u201cKnow This.\u201d He then gives an action plan to the reader to begin their thought process. He provides several questions for the reader to, as he calls it, \u201cThink About This.\u201d \u00a0Lastly, he ends each chapter with the same statement, \u201cAnd remember: you\u2019ll grow only to the threshold of your pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I must have a high threshold!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Joseph LaLonde,\u00a0<em>Embracing the Leadership Pain<\/em>, Empowering the Young Leaders with the Tools to Thrive in a Hectic World, \u00a0accessed 03\/07\/2018,\u00a0 http:\/\/www.jmlalonde.com\/embrace-the-leadership-pain-sam-chand-interview\/.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Manfred Kets De Vries, The Leadership Mystique, London: Pearson Education Limited, 2001, 146.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; When ever you work hard toward a goal, there will be pain. If you are building body muscles, there is pain. If you are losing weight, there is pain. If you give birth, there is pain. 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