Empty to Be Filled: The Spirituality of Kenotic Leadership
We are taught to lead from the front, to take the hill, rally the crowd, cast the vision. But what if real leadership does not begin with ascent, but with descent? What if the path upward really begins by stepping downward?
Empty to Be Filled invites you into a different way of leading. One patterned after Jesus, who emptied himself and took the form of a servant. This is kenotic leadership, where power flows through presence, where vulnerability becomes moral authority, where the cracks in our vessel become the very places light escapes.</p>
Inside you'll find:
- The Way Down: An Invitation to Lead in the Shadow of the Cross
- Kenosis: The Christ Shaped Pattern
- Let This Mind Be In You: A Call to Repattern the Self
- Beyond Control: Communion and Community
- The Posture of Presence: Cracks that Hold the Light
- The Yielded Voice: Discernment Over Direction
- The Overflowing Life: From Emptiness to Eucharist
What is inside the book
You may have reached the place where you have given up trying to prove yourself. Where the strategies feel empty, and the performance no longer makes sense. Maybe you are tired of pretending to be strong, tired of managing the image, tired of trying to climb a ladder you are no longer sure you believe in. This is not failure. This is where real leadership begins.
Through theological reflection, spiritual practices, and honest examination of power dynamics, this book traces the downward path of Christ. From the shadow of the Cross into communion and community. From control into presence. From grasping into yielding. Each chapter offers reflection questions and prayers to help you embody this ancient pattern in your own life and ministry.
What You Will Discover
- How to lead from presence rather than performance
- Why vulnerability strengthens rather than weakens authority
- The spiritual practices that repattern your leadership reflexes
- How to move from control to communion in community
- What it means to lead by listening first
- How emptiness becomes the doorway to fullness
Publisher
Theca Theological
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Pages
73 pages
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Categories
Theology
Religion & Spirituality