Simply Lead

Leadership and Simplicity

We tend to mystify leadership but it comes down to continuous practice of just a few things.

Leadership is about:

• Visioning
• Aligning
• Empowering
• Guiding
• Evaluating

All in order to take others along a journey that yields a common and desired end.

Vision is a preferred and compelling future

Alignment is casting that vision, setting check points or goals and getting buy in through accountability.

Empowering is permission and resources to get the goal accomplished

Guiding is checking in and coaching up

Simply asking what could we do better or what did we learn?

Preaching trumps community but doesn't replace it!

Lately the steady trickle of tweets, articles, Blogs etc.., about how a sermon won't change your life but 'authentic community' blah blah, has begun to aggravate me.  For sure I'm a preacher, it's my gifting and my calling and I'm a preacher's kid so I solidly come from world view that values the proclaimed word of God. So with that said I'm tired of the "biblical community pundits" who laud sitting in a circle dribbling on about " well I think.."  and "once this happened to me" somehow is more powerful than the proclaimed word of God.

I could rattle of passage after passage about the prescriptive, propositional command to 'preach' and in fact can clearly support that preaching has a value that none of us can fathom or grasp, it is a mystery of the foolish that God uses to transform lives.

This is not to say that Biblical community isn't immensly valuable and life transforming, but it doesn't nor can it ever replace the kerygma, the gospel and the exhortative power of the proclaimed word. In fact they are designed to work in concert with one another.  but with that said if Biblical community were to cease but the preaching of the Gospel to continue The word proclaimed would bear fruit that would create Biblical Community.  If Proclamation ceases at some point so would Biblical Community.

I get that preaching has fallen on hard times from a cultural perspective but I will continue "to preach the word of God. Be prepared in season and out of season, patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage my people with good teaching'.

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Jicama snap pea summer salad

1/2 Jicama sliced into match stick wedges
1/2 cup snap peas
1 lime juiced
1/4 rice wine vinegat
1 cup red onion sliced

Mix jicama peas and lime juice and set aside.
Mix onions anf vinegar and let rest for 2 hours and chill
Salt pepper to taste.
Serve jicama and peas cover w onion slaw
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Elsalvadorian papousas and texas caviar

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Papousas
2 cups masa/corn flour
1cup water
1 can no fat black bean refried
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup corn
1/2 tablespoon cumin
Salt/pepper to taste

Mix flour and water form into golf balk size then pattie-stuff and fold...ideal for some stuffing seep.
Toss on hot nostick griddle and flip when seared
Caviar
1 can black-eyed peas
1/2 red onion chopped
1 orange bell pepper chopped
1/2 jalepeno seeded and diced
1/4 cup cilantro chopped
1/4 cup corn
Tsp lime juice
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Gut pack bean dip

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Viteks bar b que is home of the gut pack this is a vegan alternative

1 can black beans
1can refried beans
1/4 cup chopped pickles
1/4 cup refried beans-fat free
1/4 cup chopped pickled jalepenos
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup bar b que sauce

Serve w baked tostadas
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Gut pack bean dip

Viteks bar b que is home of the gut pack this is a vegan alternative

1 can black beans
1can refried beans
1/4 cup chopped pickles
1/4 cup refried beans-fat free
1/4 cup chopped pickled jalepenos
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup bar b que sauce

Serve w baked tostadas
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Elsalvadorian papousas and texas caviar

Papousas
2 cups masa/corn flour
1cup water
1 can no fat black bean refried
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup corn
1/2 tablespoon cumin
Salt/pepper to taste

Mix flour and water form into golf balk size then pattie-stuff and fold...ideal for some stuffing seep.
Toss on hot nostick griddle and flip when seared
Caviar
1 can black-eyed peas
1/2 red onion chopped
1 orange bell pepper chopped
1/2 jalepeno seeded and diced
1/4 cup cilantro chopped
1/4 cup corn
Tsp lime juice
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