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Why Compassionate Curiosity is Vital For Discipleship

Why Compassionate Curiosity is Vital For Discipleship

One of the skills we train people to practice in our coaching is compassionate curiosity about ourselves, God, and others in discipleship.

Cultivating a genuine curiosity at the core of our being is vital if we want to grow and mature as followers of Jesus. Without curiosity, we become rigid ideologues seeking data to confirm our existing biases. Without curiosity, we cannot grow as disciples of Jesus.

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Written by Matt Tebbe · Categorized: Lead Like Jesus

What To Do With Desire in Discipleship

What To Do With Desire in Discipleship

Jesus’ first and last words in John’s Gospel are questions.

  • “What do you want?” he asks two disciples who are following him right after his baptism.
  • “Do you love me?” he asks Peter three times after his resurrection.

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Written by Matt Tebbe · Categorized: Make Disciples

Center-Out Leadership: A New Framework For the Church

Center-Out Leadership: A New Framework For the Church

In a previous post, we talked about two pitfalls of leadership: Top-down, hierarchical leadership and Bottom-up, flat leadership. Each exists in an imaginative construct on opposite ends of a binary. Each sees power as a zero-sum game, a scarce resource either to hoard or disown.

In this unhelpful paradigm, power is abusive. We must limit it (checks and balances in top-down leadership) or actively work to mitigate against it (no one is in charge in bottom-up leadership).

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Written by Matt Tebbe · Categorized: Lead Like Jesus

2 Ways We Get Leadership Wrong in the Church

2 Ways We Get Leadership Wrong in the Church

One of the simplest instructions Jesus gave his disciples came during the last supper before his crucifixion:

“You are not to be like that.”

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Written by Matt Tebbe · Categorized: Lead Like Jesus

Lament as Mission in the Suburbs

Lament as Mission in the Suburbs

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.“ – Karl Marx

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Written by Matt Tebbe · Categorized: Live on Mission

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