Sometimes a subtle shift in perspective changes everything.

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From a recent Ray Stedman devotional… something that is all to easy to forget:

“This is the great secret, and one of the hardest things for Christians to learn… How did Jesus walk? He walked in total, unrelenting, unbroken fellowship and dependence upon the activity of the Father who indwelt Him. But that seems so hard for us to learn. With us, it is the Son of God who lives within us, and He has come to reproduce the effect of His death and the power of His resurrection—to live again His life in us. But we have such difficulty with this. Our attitude is, Please, Father, I’d rather do it myself We are brought up with the idea that we have in ourselves an ability to act significantly, that God is looking to us to act on His behalf, and if we fail Him, the whole program will fall apart, but if we do accomplish something for God, He should be eternally grateful to us for our faithfulness.

But this is not what a Christian is called to do. A quiet, unrelenting dependence upon an indwelling God to be always at work in us, reproducing the value of His death and the power of His resurrection—that is what Christianity is, that is what fellowship is, and that is what abiding in Him means.”

This post is part of a series on leadership principles found in six controversial business ideas. Norm Brodsky put the ideas on the table in a recent article in Inc. Magazine.

Here’s the next principle I saw:

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