What does it mean to be a servant leader? Author and global leadership expert Halee Gray Scott joins Jo to share her findings from her new book, Dare Mighty Things. We explore spiritual gifting, common challenges in ministry, and what it means for a woman to be involved in the leadership of the Church.

Halee shares her own thoughts on what makes a leader. “Sometimes when we think of a leader we think of Winston Churchill, Beth Moore, these tremendous visionary amazing leaders that are really above and beyond the average person. We think ‘Well, we’re not really leaders, leadership doesn’t really apply to me.'”

The definition of a leader boils down to influence. Halee points out that every person who can influence someone else is a leader. This is not something to fear or avoid but something to steward.

How can we start to steward our leadership? Halee says, take some spiritual inventories to recognize your own gifts and skills. This can lead to comparison and fear, but think of the parable of the talents. God gifts every woman differently; we can’t set a first-time speaker alongside a seasoned pastor and expect to see the same fruit. “There’s always going to be someone who has more resources or may be a little bit more gifted than us…The key is to be gracious with what it is you can do in this season of life.”

Halee and Jo spend time unpacking several aspects of the discussion on women and ministry:

• How to call out potential in others.
• The importance of recognizing the women who have been instrumental in the Church throughout the centuries.
• How to build a women’s ministry build around the Word.
• The godly response to rejection when your idea is “tabled” or side-stepped.
• Why motherhood is its own ministry.
• The connection between calling and sacrifice

Highlight – Women in leadership

Women in leadership

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