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Man’s Plans And God’s Purposes: When Methods Have Their Place

by Mike Waddell on February 3, 2011 in Church Leadership, CL, Decision, Leadership, Methods, OL, Organisational Leadership, Planning, Servant Leader, SL, Strategy, Vision

When it comes to doing things to fulfil God’s Kingdom plan we both need and rely upon methods. Think about it for a minute; you use a method to make the porridge in the morning. I am using several methods as a write these words. The question is as Christian Leaders in Churches and organisations, when seeking to determine and do God’s will, how far can we go with methods? When are methods helpful and when do they hinder?

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Man’s Plans And God’s Purposes: According To Whose Plan?

by Mike Waddell on February 2, 2011 in Church Leadership, CL, Decision, Leadership, Methods, OL, Organisational Leadership, Planning, Servant Leader, SL, Strategy, Vision

In the first article in the “Mans Plans and God’s Purposes” series we learned about implementing God’s plan from the failures of Joshua. In this article we look at experiences of both Paul and Peter to learn a little more about the ways God uses to reveal his plans and some of the challenges that we face in working out how we align what we do with God’s plans and purposes.

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Man’s Plans and God’s Purposes: Being Effective for the Kingdom

by Mike Waddell on February 1, 2011 in Church Leadership, CL, Decision, Leadership, Methods, OL, Organisational Leadership, Planning, Servant Leader, SL, Strategy, Vision

Joshua lay face down in the dirt. Things had not gone according to plan. He had been there all day and had failed to work out what had happened. It was only now that God said to him “What are you doing down on your face?”
It had all been going so well, Jericho had fallen just as God said it would, albeit in a very strange way and the Canaanites had melted in fear. Now Joshua had instructed his men to attack Ai and they had been defeated, routed with 36 men had killed. What had gone wrong?

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St Ignatius on Decision Making – A Precursor to Franklin’s Moral Algebra

by Mike Waddell on January 10, 2011 in Church Leadership, CL, Decision, Leadership, Methods, OL, Organisational Leadership, Servant Leader, SL, Strategy

A few months back I discussed Benjamin Franklin’s “moral algebra,” his simple prescription for good deliberative decision making. We know of Franklin’s moral algebra only because he succinctly summarized it in a now-famous short letter to his longtime scientific colleague and friend, Joseph Priestley. In that letter Franklin seemed to suggest that the moral algebra was his own invention, using phrases such as “My way [of making decisions]…”, but he didn’t explicitly claim it as his own creation. One FelixM cryptically commented on my blog that St Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Jesuits) recommended this approach, about two hundred years earlier. Presumably other people used it before him.

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