{"id":33819,"date":"2023-11-02T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=33819"},"modified":"2023-11-02T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T22:28:47","slug":"responding-to-the-voice-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/responding-to-the-voice-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to the Voice of One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGod-honoring, kingdom seeking, biblically rooted leadership has a scale too.\u00a0 All the complexities of leadership, the required competencies and character, the convictions and courage to act, and the needed charisma and compassion to accomplish what is needed for the common good of the people fulfilling God\u2019s mission in the world, are built on five words:\u00a0 Listen, See, Learn, Do, Love.\u201d [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

In the book <\/span>The Sound of Leadership:\u00a0 Kingdom Notes to Fine Tune Your Life and Influence<\/span><\/i> by author, pastor, and former university president, Jules Glanzer creatively illustrates the complexities of the \u201cDo-Re-Mi\u201d leadership through the metaphor of music. [2] Glanzer delineates the tones that create the sound of leadership as listen, see, learn, do, and love.\u00a0 The author compares these to the chromatic scale in music, maintaining that these are the notes upon which God-honoring, kingdom-seeking, biblically rooted leadership is established. [3]\u00a0 Glanzer highlights the filters through which the leader listens and discerns the voices of stakeholders.\u00a0 These include mission, vision, values, resources, and the Voice of One.<\/span><\/p>\n

I appreciated the author’s inquiry into the question: What is God up to in the world?\u00a0 As I read my heart seemed to pause and rest in the fact that God is up to BIG things. . . He is bringing deliverance. He is forming a community.\u00a0 He is helping me to know Him. He is giving me a quality life.\u00a0 It is humbling to recognize that one’s role in the realm of leadership is just a modest component of God\u2019s greater purpose and plan.\u00a0 Sometimes the world and all of its complexities and conundrums feel heavy.\u00a0 Not a weight that I bear but a weight that was carried by the Voice of THE One.<\/span><\/p>\n

Glanzer reminds us that \u201cleaders must lead from a divine center with a heart in tune with the heart of God, forming a holy partnership that results in fulfilling the purposes of God on earth.\u201d [4] At the end of chapter five, the kingdom takeaway question prompts readers to think of a time the reader was convinced that Voice of One had spoken and the reader listened to it.\u00a0 The prompt proceeds in having the reader relive the situation, reflecting on how the Voice of One had equipped and inspired the person to listen? [5] I took time to reflect on this question.\u00a0 It was a moment of worship for the Voice of One fulfilling His purposes in me.\u00a0 In the last two years, I have been on the ordination track.\u00a0 During the COVID closure, the voice of God, the movement of God along with shifts that were happening in my vocation offered time for reflection, prayer, and seeking His purpose for my life at this stage in life.\u00a0 Through coaching, mentorship, theological training, prayer, discernment, prayer (oops. . . can\u2019t emphasize that enough), and various assessments, I completed steps in our denomination\u2019s ordination track.\u00a0 Last week, I participated in an interview with the Ministerial Education and Guidance Board to complete the next step towards ordination.\u00a0 I have been recommended for ordination and will be ordained during our Annual Conference in the Spring of 2024.\u00a0 God\u2019s purpose. . .God\u2019s movement. . .God\u2019s voice. . God\u2019s timing. . .100% God\u2019s provision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glanzer encourages leaders to \u201cKnow Thyself\u201d, noting the differences in leadership styles between himself and his predecessors.\u00a0 He states, \u201cLeading out of who we are is natural and does not require a set of goals or a personal plan.\u00a0 It just happens.\u201d [6]\u00a0 This compliments Simon Walker\u2019s message to leaders in his book <\/span>Leading Out of Who You Are<\/span><\/i> noting that a leaders front and back stage are a part of what they bring to the table of their leadership. [7]\u00a0 Every leader has their unique way of leading.\u00a0 Near the end of the book, Glanzer encourages leaders to engage in a personal case study to explore the influences that have shaped their lives and prepared the them for leadership. [8] Engaging in this activity could be ideal for a personal retreat or spread out over a period of time.\u00a0 This may result in many moments of worship and concerts of praise for the Voice of One who <\/span>created me in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for me to do. [9]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1] <\/span>Jules Glanzer, <\/span>The Sound of Leadership: Kingdom Notes to Fine Tune Your Life and Influence<\/span><\/i> (Jules Glanzer: 2023). 2.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2] Ibid, xiii.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3] Ibid, 7.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4] Ibid, 33.<\/span><\/p>\n

[5] Ibid, 33.<\/span><\/p>\n

[6] Ibid, 47.<\/span><\/p>\n

[7] <\/span>Simon Walker, <\/span>Leading Out of Who You Are:\u00a0 Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership<\/span><\/i> (Carlisle, UK:\u00a0 2007).<\/span><\/p>\n

[8] Jules Glanzer, <\/span>The Sound of Leadership: Kingdom Notes to Fine Tune Your Life and Influence<\/span><\/i> (Jules Glanzer: 2023). 101.<\/span><\/p>\n

[9] Ephesians 2:10, (NIV).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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