Chapter 11: Leaders Are Communicators: The Leader’s Most Essential Skill Is the Ability to Communicate… Over and Over Again.
In 2024, I returned to seminary with one purpose: to learn to communicate more clearly. At the time, ministry was going well. There were no calls for me to improve my communication, at least not any significant calls. However, in that season, I saw that the church was healthy and could handle my return to finish my MDiv. But I knew one thing: if I wanted to have a greater impact in my pastoral ministry, I needed to communicate better in the years to come. My thought was, and is, if I think better, then I will preach better. If I preach better, then the saints will grow in godliness. If the saints are growing in. I do not say this in the absence of the necessary ministry of the Holy Spirit. Rather, I am compelled by the fact that if the Holy Spirit has called me to preach, then I must lay aside every entanglement, and that includes poor communication. This chapter speaks to the convictions behind my decision.
This post is part of a larger series of posts. Each post is a short reflection on a chapter of The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership that Matters by Albert Mohler (ISBN 978-0-7642-1004-4).
