Leading with a Limp – Dan Allender

Erik Guzman August 2nd, 2007

If you're a leader in the Church, you simply have to listen to this interview with Dan Allender. Here's something he said on this edition of The Brown Sessions…

"What [posturing] leads to is this dual life. Who I am before you, I know I am not behind your back. And so the discrepancy, that sense of contradiction, I think is an acid that eventually literally tears away at the very fabric of faith for most leaders."

And get this…

"I think if you were to peer into many leader's hearts, they remember believing. They remember the first love. But in one sense, the posturing has so eroded something of their own capacity to be real and to be alive…that they've become somewhat robotic and certainly distant. And that kind of leadership never is a person that you would want to deeply follow."

Dan Allender is the President of Mars Hill Graduate School and Professor of Counseling. He's the author of a bunch of books, among them, The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse. He's also a former drug dealer and deeply flawed individual. Now you know why I like him so much.

Join Steve as he talks with Allender about his book, Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths. If you're a pastor, it may just be the beginning of your salvation.

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