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What does it take to sustain a city-wide movement for shalom? In this episode, Dr. Randy White and Carlos Huerta join Andrew Feil to explore how transformational urban leadership relies on cultivating a “Guild of Friends.” Moving beyond one-off events and isolated organizational efforts, they break down the six characteristics of a Jesus-inspired guild, the crucial pillars for long-term collective impact, common landmines to avoid, and how Kouzes and Posner’s five practices from The Leadership Challenge apply to city transformation.
Characteristics of a guild of friends, from John 15:12-17
- Love one another
- Costly dedication to one another’s lives – advocate for one another
- Carry out God’s commands in community
- Assumes we have the mind of Christ, through prayerfulness
- Knows it has been chosen for the purpose of bearing fruit in the community
- Plans for the sustainability of that fruit
Pillars of a movement
- Institutionally sponsored forms of support for leader and skill development
- Platforms to repeat our aspirations – repeat and reinforce the goal
- Emerging leader on-ramps
- Backbone institutional forms of fostering collaboration and collective impact
- Asset-based approach to the work
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