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I’m having a leadership crisis. Well, maybe it’s a following crisis I’m having, and I’m not enjoying it. It’s time for me to recognize the difference between leaders who have empathy and concern for their followers and those who use their followers to keep their own personal dramas going. I need to be more discerning about those who lead from a core of authentic power and those who are all about image and little about substance. Where is the leader who has done his moral inventory well enough to be aware of his own character defects? Where is the leader who has enough consciousness to govern her own life so she will not inflict her weaknesses on another person? Who has the humility to own his own mistakes without blaming someone else or hiding them behind some kind of pious or plastic covering? So cocooned in their own world of self-absorption, these leaders have lost touch not only with who other people are but who they are behind the façade. This new growing edge is hard, but I’m determined to be a better follower. READ FULL ARTICLE ONLINE AT www.helwys.com/lm
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Formations www.helwys.com/formations COMING FOR SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER UNIT 1: Four Fragile Freedoms Celebrating Our Heritage BY WALTER SHURDEN and C. DOUGLAS WEAVER In 1991, Formations adult Bible study launched with a unit of lessons on Baptist heritage written by Walter B. Shurden, one of the greatest Baptist historians alive today. In honor of the 400th anniversary of the Baptist movement, we are pleased to re-present these lessons, which ultimately formed the basis of Dr. Shurden’s best-selling book, The Baptist Identity: Four Fragile Freedoms (Smyth & Helwys, 1993). Also featured is a new introductory lesson by C. Douglas Weaver.
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COMING FOR SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER UNIT 1: Leaders in the Covenant Community BY CHRIS AND JESSICA THACKER UNIT 2: An Open Invitation to Covenant Living BY DAVID B. GLADSON Also by Unit 3 Writer RONNIE PREVOST A Distinctively Baptist Church
UNIT 3: The New Covenant Community BY RONNIE PREVOST Many of the problems that Christians faced in the New Testament continue to challenge us. The circumstances of our time in history may differ, but the basic issues are the same. All believers—past and present—are concerned about how Christians are to live and serve as communities of Jesus’ new covenant in the times, places, and worlds in which they find themselves. The writer of 1-2 Peter addresses how we can respond when our culture treats us in ways that are unkind at best and cruel at worst. UNIT 4: The Promised Birth Fulfilled BY RUTH WIENCLAW
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October 4 Defining Failure and Success (2 Timothy 4:1-8) October 11 Does Failure Equal Sin? (Matthew 4:1-11) October 18 Failing Successfully (Luke 22:31-34, 54-62) October 25 The Role of Grace (Ephesians 2:1-10) Eric Bjork currently serves as pastor of Bedon Baptist Church in Walterboro, SC and has previously worked with youth and children at other churches. He has degrees from UNC-Greensboro and Southeastern Seminary, is a huge Beatles fan, and has such varied interests as computing, music, guitars, photography, sports (especially college football), history, politics, and cats. UNIT 3: Missions—Risk Yourself for God
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