Church Leader – Mitchell Corder

Leadership and Encouragement—Part 2

BARNABAS: A BIBLICAL MODEL OF AN ENCOURAGER Barnabas is perhaps the most-well known encourager in the New Testament. In fact, he embodied encouragement so much that the apostles changed his name from Joseph to Barnabas, which means “son of encouragement.” There are five biblical examples in which Barnabas clearly demonstrated the characteristics of an encourager.ContinueContinue reading “Leadership and Encouragement—Part 2”

Leaders and Encouragement Part 1

LEADERS ARE ENCOURAGERS! In their book, The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner present a model—The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The last practice, “Encouraging the Heart,” is a topic so important that the authors wrote an entire book about it—Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others. The “Seven Essentials toContinueContinue reading “Leaders and Encouragement Part 1”