VIDEO SERIES · GOSPEL CITY NETWORK
About this Video Series
Crawford Loritts, author of Leadership as an Identity, shares his perspective on Christian leadership for faithful implementation of God’s assignments. He draws attention to a God-centred worldview of Christian leadership primarily concerned with leader development.
Watch Crawford as he unpacks four common character traits observed among faithful servants of God.
The videos on Distinctive Christian Leadership discusses:
Introduction to the Video Series
EP1: Brokenness
God uses broken people who actively surrender to God and rely on Him for their assignments. Crawford differentiates between brokenness (which is redemptive) from woundedness.
EP2: Uncommon Communion
Crawford shares that every assignment from God is a call to intimacy with him. Leaders are transformed in the process of working the assignment, a celebration of God’s intervention.
EP3: Servanthood as an Identity
Leaders serve because they are servants. Servanthood as an identity is not servanthood as a strategy. Crawford stressed that the credibility of leaders is in direct relationship to the willingness to serve.
EP4: Radical, Immediate Obedience
Ephesians 2 informs that everyone is created for God’s good works. Are you aligning your life to God’s assignment? With obedience comes his presence and resources for the assignments.
Meet the Speaker
Crawford Loritts
Author, Speaker, Pastor, Church Planter
Crawford Loritts has been the featured speaker at Super Bowls, NCAA Final Four Chapel, and the Pentagon with senior military officers.
He is the President and Founder of Beyond Our Generation and has been a church planter, served for 27 years on the staff of Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) and served for 15 years as Sr. Pastor of Fellowship Bible Church, Roswell, Georgia.
Crawford also serves on several boards including Cru, FamilyLife and Chick-fil-A.
Resources
Ask yourself this question: What character qualities define a godly leader?
Author Crawford Loritts answers this question with four simple words: brokenness, communion, servanthood, and obedience.
These four characteristics provide the framework for Leadership as an Identity. Examining each trait, Loritts undermines the pervasive and unbiblical assumptions about leadership.
Authentic Ministry offers practical guidance and spiritual nourishment for all who serve the church. Each of the nine chapters orients readers to the “one thing [that] is necessary” (cf. Luke 10:42)—abiding in Christ—while asking and answering questions both simple and profound: What is prayer? How should I respond to suffering? Who is my friend? What is theology? What does it mean to love?
The church is experiencing a leadership crisis. For every celebrity pastor exiting in the spotlight, there are hundreds of lesser-known pastors leaving in the shadows. Why are so many pastors leaving the ministry? Bestselling author Paul David Tripp suggests that lurking behind the failure of a pastor is a weak leadership community.
Turning to Scripture for guidance, Tripp presents readers with 12 leadership-community principles necessary for a gospel-centered leadership model.
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