Sorting Beans

Two highly potential qualities often not viewed in the same boat.

After reading an article discussing the role of apologetics, I have been thinking about how it fits in with leadership.

Do they fit in with each other? And if they do, what should it look like?

There is definitely a right way and a wrong way of doing this.

I have been in leadership circles that have done at least one of the three of these, if not more:

1. Lead by ordering
2. Lead by convincing
3. Lead by winning

That is, in your faith.

I used to get involved in debates quite frequently.

Most of them were online, and sometimes in some kind of forum. Other times they have been personal.

But never have I participated in a formal debate—I still wonder about that.

Recently, though, I have been involved in a bit of a debate with another person in a comment thread on a website I often read.

It’s been a back-and-forth commenting on the issue of the Bible