PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR LEADERS

 

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SESSION FOUR

HOPE WHEN YOU FACE FAILURE

Every leader feels like a failure at some point — it’s impossible to think that everything “works,” all the time.

Perhaps we wouldn’t use the term “failure”; perhaps we instead think of the death of a dream, or merely that things didn’t go like we thought they would…

But whatever words we use, how can we embrace failure as part of leadership, without guilt and with hope?

In this session, Alan Briggs asks us to look at our hopes and dreams, and to consider the tangible reality that they don’t always come true. But in the midst, he helps us find hope in the one true source from which hope always comes.

 

In this session:

  • Read: Isaiah 41:10; James 1:2-4

  • Watch 3.5 minute video: “When Your Dreams are Forgotten” & Reflect

  • Watch 4.5 minute video: “When You Feel Like a Failure” & Reflect

  • Watch 2 minute video: “How to Lighten Your Burden” & Reflect

  • Assignment: Lament

 

Read: Isaiah 41:10; James 1:2-4

Watch #1. “When Your Dreams are Forgotten”

Reflect

  • What would a step toward your dream look like? (progress over perfect; direction over destination)

  • Who do you need to let into that dream, and how will you do so?

  • What’s the next step in your process to re-engage your dream?

Watch #2. “When You Feel Like a Failure”

Reflect

  • Where are you putting too much emphasis on what you do?

  • here are you putting too little emphasis on who you are?

  • How can you focus more on who you are?

Watch #3. “How to Lighten Your Burden”

Reflect

  • What feels weighty right now?

  • hat has Jesus asked you to carry? 

  • What can you lay down that Jesus hasn’t asked you to do carry?

 

Assignment: Lament

Lament is often seen as a synonym for grief or venting anger —what good does that do? The Bible teaches us a way to lament that needs to hope even amidst suffering. Download this exercise and take a few moments to name your sadness and lament biblically.

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