The Monster that Ate Your Call
A Coaching Check-up for Mission-Driven Leaders
by Tony Stoltzfus
With our current emphasis on visionary leadership, we tend to assume that God will evaluate our legacy based on how well we accomplish our mission. That's not actually the case. As a leader, you will be judged on how you steward your personal life first, and second on how you steward the people God has placed in your charge. In other words, if you accomplish your organizational mission but use up a lot of people in the process, you have failed as a leader. Too often, especially in ministry circles, leaders get caught up in doing the task of their call and forget what the task was supposed to be for---to impact people for Jesus and to make their lives better.
So what does that look like in practical terms? How do you know if your vision has become the monster that ate your calling?
