15 BOASTING IN WEAKNESS The concept of boasting in weakness is highlighted and encouraged throughout Scripture. These encouragements are not to be confined to the walls of the church. Instead, leaders must look for ways to boast of their weaknesses regardless of their environment. This enables the leader to fulfill Paul’s exhortation in 1 Corinthians 1:3 to boast only in the Lord. The leader can follow the psalmist’s example in Psalm 115:1, “Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!” NOTES 1 Richard and Henry Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership (Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman, 2011). 2 Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline (San Francisco, CA: Harper Collins, 1988). 3 Matt Perman, What’s Best Next (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2016), 40, 53, 54. 4 John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World (Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook, 2019). 5 Cal Newport, Deep Work (New York, NY: Grand Central, 2016), 157-59. 6 Ibid., 181-214. 7 Steven Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (New York, NY: Rosetta Books, 2004). 8 Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2017), 53. 9 Heifetz and Linsky, 55; Northouse, 263. 10 Blackaby and Blackaby. 11 Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2009).
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