AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote:
In many ways, I think leadership skills are more straightforward than are fellowship skills.
Excellent point.
I think it depends on the person, though. I'm not a born or made leader. It doesn't come naturally to me, I think what happened was over the years I got used to a certain level of leadership...and I didn't realize that leadership was what I was doing. Only in retrospect does it make sense. I think leaders who are more conscience of it become aware that they have an insatiable thirst for it. And then I think they simply refuse to take lesser roles.
That might be the season I'm living in now. I've made it so far up I can't imagine NOT doing it. Something as simple as fellowship, as you said, has become a foreign thing. I'm not sure trying to get it back is the way to go, except perhaps leadership is a level of fellowship. Maybe? You can't really be a leader if you don't connect with those you lead. Leadership is really just a role you assume at will. All it takes is wanting it, setting a direction, and convincing others to help you realize a vision. You can't achieve without involving people. You can't involve people without meeting them on their level.