A Fundamental Question for Shaping Our Leadership Imagination

For me a fundamental question shaping the way, I think, we ought to think about pastoral leadership is:

"What is God doing in our world and how can we lead a people to be formed by what God is doing? How can we lead a people to see what God is doing, to hear what God is saying, and to courageously respond to participating with God in God's redemptive mission?"

To be pastoral leaders who shape communities to be spiritual in this way I believe is a fundamental question for shaping our leadership imaginations. This is to understand that it is not about our agendas in leading the people we have been entrusted to us, nor about offering religious services for the spiritual consumer, rather it is about guiding a community to demonstrate in the world what it means to be a people who live out their lives under the rule of God.