{"id":210,"date":"2014-08-07T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:50","slug":"it-takes-courage-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/07\/it-takes-courage-to-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"It Takes Courage to Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up my mom taught my siblings and I that courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s doing the right thing even when you’re afraid. And this is the kind of courage it takes to lead; courage that will act despite how you feel. Here’s a couple\u00a0for instances:<\/p>\n

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  1. It takes courage to do the right thing<\/strong>, even when it might cost you something (i.e. like letting a bad volunteer or staff go without knowing who God will raise up to replace them).<\/li>\n
  2. It takes courage to stand before your congregation and preach something that isn’t\u00a0popular<\/strong> or politically correct to say in our culture (i.e. that homosexuality is a sin or that wives need to submit to their husbands).<\/li>\n
  3. It takes courage to try something new.<\/strong> After all, it might fail and that would be embarrassing.<\/li>\n
  4. It takes courage to initiate change.<\/strong> After all, most people like things the way they are so you risk upsetting the status quo.<\/li>\n
  5. It take courage to make decisions.<\/strong> Anytime you make a decision you\u00a0risk someone in your church or someone on your staff not liking it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It took courage for David<\/strong> to kill Goliath. It took courage for Nehemiah<\/strong> to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem under constant threat of attack. It took courage for Jesus<\/strong> to die on the cross. It took courage for Peter<\/strong>\u00a0to preach the gospel when doing so might cost him\u00a0imprisonment\u00a0or death. It took courage for Paul<\/strong> to head back into the city that\u00a0stoned him and left him for dead. But hey – it takes courage to lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Growing up my mom taught my siblings and I that courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s doing the right thing even when you’re afraid. And this is the kind of courage it takes to lead; courage that will act despite how you feel. Here’s a couple\u00a0for instances: It takes courage to do the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-leadership","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}