John Perkins and Wayne Gordon described the major improvement and accomplishment that they saw happened in the Lawndale Community Church in their tour of Spring 2012. As they were touring around and looking at the significance changes, they both can’t help but reflect on what that place used to look like some 30 years ago. Their reflection includes some laughter but on a serious notes though, they both witness God’s faithfulness to that community. In Gordon’s words “at the core of this transformation is a philosophy that John has passed on to me and---many others “ (15). This philosophy of transformation that both Gordon and Wayne has been passing down is allowing them to create servant leadership in people. They define the term servant leadership as a commitment to sharing authority to developing the people around us and
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They gave the proximity fact of the number of students in the Chicago that would go to school on an average morning only to find that they have no teachers that day. They’ve also talked about how some people in one community take advantage of things that people in other community are longing for. It could be as little as watching adult going to work in the morning and coming back in the afternoon to coach a sport team. Next, John Perkins and Wayne Gordon expand on genuine leadership. They defined the term as the a leadership whose influence is welcomed and desired. To support this, they used the perfect example of leadership, that of Jesus, to break down their point. They’ve also listed five important thing that they believe are quality of an effective leadership. They’ve talked about the difference between leadership and management because a lot of time people tends to misunderstand the role of the two. They went on to talk about the critical role of modeling. They explained why good modeling is important to us as humans and they talked about how it played into leadership. They’ve also talk about spirituality, character and self self
They gave the proximity fact of the number of students in the Chicago that would go to school on an average morning only to find that they have no teachers that day. They’ve also talked about how some people in one community take advantage of things that people in other community are longing for. It could be as little as watching adult going to work in the morning and coming back in the afternoon to coach a sport team. Next, John Perkins and Wayne Gordon expand on genuine leadership. They defined the term as the a leadership whose influence is welcomed and desired. To support this, they used the perfect example of leadership, that of Jesus, to break down their point. They’ve also listed five important thing that they believe are quality of an effective leadership. They’ve talked about the difference between leadership and management because a lot of time people tends to misunderstand the role of the two. They went on to talk about the critical role of modeling. They explained why good modeling is important to us as humans and they talked about how it played into leadership. They’ve also talk about spirituality, character and self self