The Making of a Leader Quotes

“Self-initiated ministry challenges or assignments carry with them the seeds of higher-level leadership. Those who self-initiate often disrupt the status quo and threaten those in authority over them. In the resulting conflict, the promising quality of self-initiative can be overlooked. Leaders need to recognize the value of this quality and be on the alert for those emerging leaders who demonstrate it.”
― J. Robert Clinton, The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

“Ministry challenge describes the means whereby a leader is prompted to sense God’s guidance and to accept a new assignment. The most common means of entry into a ministry assignment in all three sub-phases is an external challenge by a person to work in an established ministry. The rarest entry pattern in all three sub-phases involves self-initiated challenges to create new ministry roles and structures. This leads to some important implications: The majority of leaders will emerge via common entry patterns. It is self-initiation in the entry patterns that indicates strong potential for upper-level leadership. Plateauing in a leader’s development is indicated by a declining frequency of initiative and response to ministry challenges and ministry assignments.”
― J. Robert Clinton, The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

“have described three major kinds of tests: the integrity check, the obedience check, and the word check.”
― J. Robert Clinton, The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

“It is one thing to obey when it seems logical and necessary, but it is quite another when the obedience calls for something that doesn't make sense.”
― Robert Clinton, The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

“I once heard a leader say that many are called to lay something on the altar; and they do, but they take along a rubber knife.”
― Robert Clinton, The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development