by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 26, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Leadership
I have long come to realise that team leadership is norm. Perhaps, when I was younger, I held to the individualistic, heroic, bigger than life model of leadership (and maybe believed I was on the road to being one.) But life, and the Word, have taught me that the norm...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 11, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Leadership, Preaching & Teaching
Think of a few leaders you admire. How many of them were effective leaders as a result of some formal leadership training they received? Ruth A. Tucker has this to say about leadership training: Enrolling in a seminar to learn how to be a leader is as unfeasible as...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 16, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Church, Leadership
Why do key Christian leaders fall? Why do people who have been used mightily by the Lord get entangled in the sins of power, sex, or money, or some combination of the deadly three? The question came up when we having dinner with some good friends last night. With...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 1, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Leadership
How dangerous is pride anyway? The Russian Orthodox church seems to think it is very dangerous. The November 2006 issue of Christianity Today reports on a Father Sergey who had a very successful ministry of exorcism. (Agnieszka Tennant, “The God Who Lives and...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 7, 2006 | 2006, Articles, Church, Leadership
I was back in my home church over the weekend. I was there as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. Talk about your trip down memory lane. * I had my salvation confirmed in this church. * I received my call to full time church related ministry through this...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 16, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Church, Leadership
I was doing my daily bible readings from the book of Acts recently and I re-encountered the episode in Acts where Paul and Barnabas were thought to be the Greek Gods Hermes and Zeus. (Acts 14:8-18) When Paul and Barnabas realized what was happening, this is how they...
