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Understanding God’s Guidance Makes Us Better Leaders. Here’s Why

February 7, 2025 by Ray Hollenbach Articles, Leadership

God's guidance
God's guidance
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Does God’s guidance show us how to lead? I believe we can learn a lot about leadership and pastoring by thinking about God’s guidance. In Jesus we see that God prioritizes relationship over arrival. He prefers intimacy over efficiency. He loves trusting over rushing. and perhaps most difficult, he is into mystery over simplicity.

God’s guidance often feels like going nowhere fast. Which rubs against the grain of our value of going somewhere fast. It often feels like a wandering path, or even going in circles. Which confounds our efficiency of straight lines.

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God’s guidance often feels like being on a boat in the middle of the ocean, with nothing but horizon—the sheer scale of our context makes it impossible to have any sense of motion (other than the nauseating bobbing  up and down, up and down…). Which frustrates our desire to be in control.

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About Ray Hollenbach

Ray Hollenbach helps pastors and churches navigate change. He's the founder of DEEPER Seminars, weekend leadership retreats focused on discipleship in the local church. His devotional book "Deeper Grace" is available at Amazon.com He currently lives in central Kentucky. He's also the author of of "The Impossible Mentor", a deep dive into the foundations of discipleship.

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