How Women Leaders Embrace Criticism
Embrace criticism as a catalyst for personal and professional growth that sets you apart.
Embrace criticism as a catalyst for personal and professional growth that sets you apart.
As you get to know the women in your group, discover the unique gifts within a women's Bible study journey and explore opportunities to connect them with church or small groups to help them grow in their discipleship journey.
Our personal growth isn’t solely forged through grand ministerial achievements or notable successes. Instead, it’s the culmination of the seemingly modest, everyday moments that truly mold us.
With evangelical churches often consisting of more than half of its members and volunteers being women, we see the fruit and faithfulness each and every week, and yet when it comes to the conversation about how to honor women in church, it often gets hijacked with arguments around roles, office, and title, and in so doing we miss a bigger conversation around celebrating, equipping, and affirming the roles of women in our churches.
Mother's Day is a hard and complex day for many, filled with complex Mother's Day feelings. Broken relationships, grief, childlessness, regret, and disappointment can often fill this day that is supposed to be marked by joy and honor.
If we never stop and evaluate how we are leading ourselves, focusing on our self leadership skills, and where we are spiritually, emotionally, and mentally, we will find ourselves burned out, self-absorbed, or even apathetic to the call God has entrusted us with.
Community and connection are some of the key distinctions I see in women's ministry planning where we are able to help foster multi-generational relationships and offer moments to connect over shared experiences.
The hard parts of ministry and life, often experienced when leading through difficult times, are used by God to unearth the false identities and comforts that I tend to cling to other than God himself.
When we take those steps to get to know the person instead of operating out of assumptions we grow in compassion, joy, and empathy.