{"id":864,"date":"2009-12-29T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2009-12-29T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:28:00","slug":"hauerwas-on-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Hauerwas on Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found <a href=\"http:\/\/prodigal.typepad.com\/prodigal_kiwi\/2009\/12\/stanley-hauerwas-on-leadership.html\">here<\/a>; two key quotes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a bad innovation when the revivalistic structure overtook the church\u2019s primary liturgical form in a way that charismatic preachers replaced the centrality of Eucharist&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People called to administrative positions have to undergo a deep ascetical discipline. You\u2019re dealing with people who have possibilities and limits, the limits sometimes will drive you crazy, and you cannot take it personally.<br \/>&#8230;You do this to provide space for the different gifts of the community. I\u2019m very Pauline in this. Communities have diversities of gifts. Part of your responsibility as an administrator and leader is to help members of the community own them as contributing to the overall good of the community. To be in a position of power means that you recognize how fragile the power is. You wouldn\u2019t have it otherwise. And you have enough confidence that you don\u2019t have to win all the time. That\u2019s a real ascetic discipline, a discipline of the ego, which is absolutely crucial for being an administrator and to allow the institution to go on once you\u2019re no longer there&#8230;<br \/>&#8230; For any person that wants to be in leadership, if they try to lead in a way that means they don\u2019t have to deal with people, they automatically defeat community. It is everyday interactions that make it possible for there to be people who tell the truth to us one at a time in the hopes that in that process we will be a truthful community&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found here; two key quotes: &#8220;It was a bad innovation when the revivalistic structure overtook the church\u2019s primary liturgical form in a way that charismatic preachers replaced the centrality of Eucharist&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;People called to administrative positions have to undergo a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-dW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}