Had a good conversation this morning with a few guys, wrestling through the book Leading With a Limp. It's been a very stretching book thus far. Much of the book runs counter to most leadership books you pick up. The book challenges us to recognize and lead out of our brokenness. It's not a question if you are broken, so much as do you recognize it and lead from that "limping" posture. The following quote, recounting the story of Jacob (renamed Israel) wrestling with God, sparked some good discussion...
He wrestles with God and comes away broken and renamed. His limp is a reminder that when God renames us, he also makes each one of us a new person through a redemption that requires brokenness.
The story of Jacob exalts not the struggle but the goodness of God as he blesses a conniving, undeserving man. No matter how far off the mark we might be, we see in this account the promise that if we open ourselves to meet God, we will not come out of the encounter the same. We will walk a new path--with an unpredictable gait.
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