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11. One of the greatest challenges of leadership is making the vision ________________________ .

12. _________________________doesn't stick without constant care and attention.

13. Leaders must realize that in most ________________________ the second half of the job is always more
difficult than the first half.

Let’s get Personal…

Activity: Describe a time when a person or group of persons opposed you in your leadership position. What
kept you moving forward?

Chapter 6: The Servant’s Compassion

Connect…

Before we begin this next section, I am reminded of a commentary series called The NIV Application
Commentary. The writers of this series of commentaries believe that explaining the original meaning of a book
or passage of Scripture only completes half of a Bible teacher’s job. These commentary writers believe that it is
vital that contemporary application is also applied to the ancient text. Therefore, we must learn how to explain
the original meaning while giving a correct life application to our modern contextual and cultural setting. These
contextual and cultural settings will vary from community to community and from country to country. Because

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