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Fortuitous Bouncing

2011 January 22

by Tyler

Having seen True Grit, The King’s Speech, and The Social Network in the theater, I’d have to give the nod to The Social Network by a hair over The King’s Speech for Best Picture. Agree?

But honestly, none of them compare with Gladiator, let’s be honest.

Or Braveheart.

Blogs

What an amazing story from Justin: From pastor to waiter.
Most interesting read of the week: Why Girls Get Bieber Fever from Psychology Today.
Is leadership Biblical? “The NT word “leadership” takes on the element of leading by character not coercion, by submission not hierarchy in reverence for the Lordship of Christ.”
Great review of the popular (at least locally) new show entitled Portlandia. It nails Portland so well.

Misc.

My sister was on the Price is Right Monday morning. You can watch her 5 minutes up on stage here.
Breaking out of the “worship formula.” If you’re a worship leader, you know exactly what that means. “It matters a lot less if everyone hits the right note, or if the band hits the right solo at exactly the right time or even if the particular song is the one you want to sing. What matters is if worship is providing you a space to connect with God.”
Great reminder how the smallest things in life are often the biggest areas of obedience or disobedience.
Join me in prayer for the last few remaining Christians in Iraq. Tough to read this piece from the NYTimes about it.

Have a blessed weekend.

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http://seth.heasley.net/blog Seth

Gladiator is so overrated. That is all. (I’d comment further but I haven’t seen any of three you mentioned.)
http://refineus.org Justin Davis

Thanks for the link love Tyler…I haven’t seen True Grit…but Braveheart is the bomb!
Carrie

Love the links! I want to comment on the “Biblical leadership” link. I think there are some decent concepts in the Willow Creek rebuttal (obviously, a church is not a business, yes, I understand), but overall I found David Fitch’s piece disturbing. I think he has a really distorted view of “CEO style” leadership. In my experience in the business world, the best new management teaching is not top down and autocratic, but rather inclusive, bottom up, positive, and focused on the leader as a servant, at least some degree, and in teaching and inspiring others. I think that style works best in both “worlds” – Christian and secular – because leadership Jesus style just plain works better. Clearly there is a whole spiritual dimension and qualification for leadership in the church that is totally absent in the business world, but in general I think the same leadership style works best for both.

I also get really disheartened when I see churches just plain not run efficiently and well. I get the rebuttal that church is about people and not bottom line, but we still need to be as effective as we can be. The church doesn’t get cart blanche, in my opinion, to be poorly organized, not manage a balance sheet, communicate poorly, etc., just because we are all about people. We need to be good stewards. That means we need to understand how to be the best leaders we can be in our context. Why not include the best management gurus of today in that discussion? Why not learn from them? I just don’t get it.
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

We’ll have to talk Seth. I’m not even sure you’re serious there. You can’t be…
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

I think I pretty much see eye to eye with you on this Carrie. “Bad leadership” really bugs me as well. Not everything I post on these fortuitous bouncing posts are posts I agree with, because I see so much value in reading different perspectives. So I’ve often linked to posts that would oppose one another. Hope you still find something you disagree with helpful for you in some way.
http://seth.heasley.net/blog Seth

I must confess I haven’t seen it in years, but I didn’t consider it the best film of its year. I certainly thought it was well done and pretty awesome, but just not Best Picture-worthy.
Carrie

Oh, definitely helpful! That wasn’t meant as a criticism of you I love how you link us in to all these different discussions…