Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy are supposed to have similar leadership styles. They are friends and learn from each other.
They are in stark opposition to the style of leadership Mike Ditka or Bill Clinton had.
Smith and Dungy are makers of Consensus. They create an atmosphere where people follow because they believe. Because they believe they win.
Ditka had people who followed because he said so. If you disagreed you were out.
Bill Clinton surveyed and governed by poll results. No real convictions. Just whatever people wanted. That kind leadership got Jesus crucified, Hitler elected and Jews killed. No one can govern by polls and winds of opinion. The rabble is nearly always wrong.
Smith and Dungy happen to be black. I don't know if it's true but perhaps they are taking to heart what Martin Luther King once said:
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a maker of consensus.
That's why I appreciate George Bush. He doesn't see which way the wind blows and then decide, he makes a decision based on core convictions and then tries (and sometimes fails) to make consensus. I would rather follow that kind of leader than one who is uncertain in the sounding of his trumpet.
Before the outbreak of WWII Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler and essentially gave him Czechoslovakia. "Peace in our Time" was his battle cry. Now his name is a synonym with failed pacifism, appeasement, and an unwillingness to face the enemy with resultant horrible consequence.
We have people who in 50 years time will have the same ring of failure when their names are pronounced. Murtha, Durbin, and others. Failures because they believe there is something other than clear and decisive leadership, that negotiating and compromising with the sworn enemies of our country will lead to anything other than delayed and more deadly warfare.
We have a 2008 election coming up. How about a Smith - Dungy ticket, or a Dungy - Smith. I think it would work.
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Hi Gene
I have read your posts on the prophetic ministry. They are very good.
The ten steps are especially useful. I would like to see more prophecy, but I would also like to be better prophecy. Most of what is called prophecy today is fairly insipid. I have not seen 1 Cor 14:25 fulfilled for a long time, but I am hoping.
With regard to Deut 13 and killing prophets, I believe the reference was to false prophets leading them to worship other gods. We need to remember that that they did not have the Holy Spirit to transform their lives. Jesus had not yet died for our sin, so they had no spiritual protection from demonic attacks. They had no ability to cast our evil spirits. When King Saul was attacked by a spirit there was no cure. He was calmed by David’s singing, but he could never escape the torment (1 Sam 16:14-23).
Their only protection from spiritual evil was to keep themselves totally separate from people who carried evil spirits or to kill the person with the evil spirit. We now have the protection of the blood of Jesus and the power to cast out spirits, so the Deut 13 solution is no longer needed.
George Bush........???????
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