The issue for leaders is that of rootedness. Do we know who we are and what motivates us in kingdom work? In his devotional classic Ordering Your Private World, Gordon MacDonald powerfully highlights the subtle dangers of losing our way. He contrasts the called person with the perils of being a driven person. In a nutshell, called people live from the inside out, whereas driven people live from the outside in. Called people order their private world and thereby engage their outer world from a centered
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