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My role with The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada requires a fair amount of travel, and it was on one such trip several years ago that God drove home an important leadership lesson that has never left me.<\/p>\nMy role with The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada requires a fair amount of travel, and it was on one such trip several years ago that God drove home an important leadership lesson that has never left me.<\/p>\n
I needed to fly from Kelowna to Regina, and I found out a couple of weeks in advance that instead of Air Canada or Westjet I\u2019d be flown there in a small, private propeller airplane.<\/p>\n
I was not happy about this trip. In fact, I was scared silly. This was a small plane; it was like a Volkswagen Beetle with wings. And just the thought of flying in this tiny plane over the Rocky Mountains filled me with dread.<\/p>\n
I talked to one fellow who had flown on this plane before. He told me that one of the biggest differences I\u2019d find flying in this plane versus a commercial aircraft is that, when you fly on Air Canada or Westjet over the Rockies, you\u2019ll look down and say, \u201cOh look\u2026there\u2019s a river\u2026there\u2019s a lake\u2026\u201d But when you fly in this little plane you\u2019ll look down and say, \u201cOh look, there\u2019s a squirrel\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n
But then an interesting thing happened. About a week before I was to leave, I met the plane\u2019s owner who was also the pilot. His name was John, and I discovered that the more I talked with John, and the more I found out about his experience as a pilot, I found that my anxiety about the trip was slipping away.<\/p>\n
You see, not only did I now know<\/em> the pilot, but more importantly I had confidence in the one who was literally in control of my life. And I discovered what a profound difference it makes when the pilot is not some anonymous person who happens to wear a white shirt with wings on the collar, but instead is someone you know, someone you have personally found to be trustworthy.<\/p>\n That experience has helped me enormously when I\u2019m facing a daunting leadership decision or challenge. Because it reminds me that in Christ we have the most trustworthy of \u201cpilots\u201d who is right there with us.<\/p>\n Leaders face decisions and challenges that can easily cause us to feel overwhelmed. But remembering to have confidence that Christ is in control, it changes everything.<\/p>\n How does the reality of Jesus\u2019 trustworthiness impact your leadership?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My role with The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada requires a fair amount of travel, and it was on one such trip several years ago that God drove home an important leadership lesson that has never left me. I needed to fly from Kelowna to Regina, and I found out a couple of weeks in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,90,5,6,7,12,1],"tags":[174,177,175,178,171,170,172,173,84,169,176],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action","category-canadian","category-discipline2","category-joy","category-leadership","category-tension","category-uncategorized","tag-anxiety","tag-challenges","tag-confidence","tag-control","tag-flying","tag-leadership-lesson","tag-scared","tag-small-plane","tag-travel","tag-trust","tag-trustworthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}