Courage: A key to Church growth
“Leadership is not about the conference room or the boardroom; it is all about the battlefield. Leadership is always about verbs, action. It is not about the safety of ideas (as important as that might be), but about implementation and movement in the face of opposition. And that takes courage.” — Crawford Loritts in Leadership As An Identity “ The descendants of Joseph responded, “It’s true that the hill country is not large enough for us. But all the Canaanites in the lowlands have iron chariots, both those in Beth-shan and its surrounding settlements and those in the valley of Jezreel. They are too strong for us.”” Joshua 17:16 NLT I have been studying the book of Joshua which details the ancient Israelite community’s move into to present day Palestine and the stories of their journey. The Israelites had been enslaved in Egypt for much of the previous 450 years when, God told their leader Joshua (name literally means God saves) that He was literally taking the peopl