I enjoyed Campbell’s book on a Hero with a Thousand Voices. Campbell challenges his audience to move from a fixed mindset and cross the threshold of adventure in how we communicate to others. An invitation to leaders to leave what is comfortable and come into transformation. Campbell, took a different approach in his studies of mythology and delivered it in a modern way that many audiences, directors, inspirational speakers adapted to this new approach or delivery. At one time or another, a leader will be challenged to push through comforts into new thresholds of understanding. To put this simply, to die to old ways (self) so new ways can begin.<\/p>\n
You can break down Campbells book into five main categories.<\/p>\n
We can relate this method or story of our time here at George Fox in our Doctoral of Leadership and Global Perspectives. Through this process, we will come into a new threshold. We are assigned a mentor to walk out this new adventure in our journey together. In the process there is the death\/rebirth that each student will go through. Transfomation through a growth mindset is a process that must take place in each student\/leader for us to come into the new leader that we will be at the end of the Doctoral Program. In the end, we will return to our churches, organizations, businesses as a new and transformed leader.<\/p>\n
As a pastor, I would like to break down Campbell’s book into three main categories or points.<\/p>\n
Many of us accept the calling on are lives to be ministers or leaders. We see throughout the Old Testament, that God would call someone by their name, and they would respond with “Here I am.” Or how I like to say, to be present spirit, soul, and body. But we also learn from Hebrews 13:20-21 that God equips the called. “Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.<\/p>\n
In point two, we engage in a quest process that happens to us. Often times, things become so uncomfortable in our lives that it forces change in our life or ministries. For me, this was my fall season during my Cape Town advance. During this time, I had to fulfill my requirements, traveling to S. Africa (Quest). However my circumstances were not normal, my dad had recently passed away. My plans for purchasing a bigger facility fell through.<\/p>\n
I had to tell an orphanage in Ukraine of 38 youth that I no longer could house them or attend our school because the purchase on the new facility fell through. My daughter with down syndrome was extremely sick and in the ICU. Everything was going wrong at the church while I was in Cape Town. I was at an all time low with my emotions, I felt defeated for the first time in a long time. In any quest, we have the opportunity to abandon the quest, or press through and come into a new mindset.<\/p>\n
In the end, we return as a new and improved leader to those we love and serve. By being willing to be uncomfortable and step through the crucible of change, we can then be that leader, example, and inspiration we always desire and strive to be. Through this, we can see there is a hero in all of us.<\/p>\n
[1] Campbell, J. (2012).\u00a0The hero with a thousand faces<\/i>\u00a0(3rd ed.). New World Library.<\/p>\n
[2] Hebrews 13:20-21<\/p>\n
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