Timeless Leadership Principles from the 18th Century & John Wesley
Is Christ Real to Me and in My Christian School Leadership?
The month
of June is a transitional time for closing out the prior school year.
This month also affords us more time for family & travel along
with refreshing our body, mind and soul. June also is a time to move
forward and gear up for the upcoming school year.
Regardless of
which of these scenarios finds you this summer, we recently came across
some leadership principles from John Wesley that you may find
encouraging for both your spiritual relationship with Christ and
Christian school leadership. Wesley initially wrote these thoughts in
question form as a daily self-evaluation while a student at Oxford
University. In this high speed technological age of emails, cell
phones, I-Pads and Apps, it is refreshing to reflect back on Wesley's
timeless insights.
John Wesley writes:
- Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
- Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
- Do I confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
- Can I be trusted?
- Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
- Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
- Do I pray about the money I spend?
- How do I spend my spare time?
- Do I disobey God in anything?
- Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
- Am I defeated in any part of my life?
- Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
- Am I proud?
- Do I thank God that I am not like other people?
- Do I laugh at the mistakes of others, reveling in their errors and misfortunes?
- Is there a tendency for me to put others down so that I'll be thought of more highly?
- Is
there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment
toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
- Do I grumble or complain?
- Am I thoughtful in expressing "thanks" to people for what they've done for me, no matter how insignificant it seems?
- Did the Bible live in me today? Do I give it time to speak to me every day?
- Am I enjoying prayer?
- When did I last speak to someone else about my faith (about Christ)?
- Is Christ real to me?
It remains our charge to encourage
and develop Christian School Leadership that is exacting in obedience to
Christ and holding to a razor sharp mission in best practices of
excellent Christian schools.
The Imago Dei
Group would consider it a Christ-honoring privilege to further serve
with you in such an endeavor of a well led and definitively excellent
Christian school in the best practices for the 21st century.
You are always
welcome to contact us for more information with a no cost, no obligation
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