Change a winning formula

"The task of leadership is to make the status quo more dangerous than launching into the unknown"

Sir John Harvey Jones once said, “The task of leadership is to make the status quo more dangerous than launching into the unknown.”

After a relatively short period of time building this leadership community and modelling his ministry to them, Jesus was going to gather his disciples and launch them out into the unknown. This was going to be a massive and scary challenge for them.

In Luke 9 we can see that Jesus was moving the disciples from the comfort zone of accompanying him as he enjoyed amazing success, to finding their own faith in God for healing, finance, as well as coping with rejection and hostility.

When things are going well and we are living with the pleasure of achieving some success, it is very hard to change things to achieve greater levels of success. This was going to be one of the pivotal moments in the way Jesus developed great people. It was going to need something to happen that would motivate him to make this adjustment and launch the disciples into the unknown.

For Jesus this motivation came as he saw in his mind all the towns and villages he could not reach if he carried on the same way he was working. He was “moved with compassion for the harassed and helpless people” who had no one to care for them.

To be continued…

Change a winning formula

Sir John Harvey Jones once said, “The task of leadership is to make the status quo more dangerous than launching into the unknown.”