John Wooden and Worship Leadership
If you’re a sports fan at all, you will have noticed that this past week John Wooden passed away. What may not be so readily apparently is any relationship between John Wooden and worship leadership. I saw many correlations! In fact, this was the last week of class for the quarter and I took copies of the diagram of Wooden’s Pyramid of Success…and some of Wooden’s many famous, insightful quotes, to class for discussion. The Pyramid of Success is a set of philsophies that Wooden taught and embedded in his UCLA basketball teams, but also had great application for success in business and other areas of life. As I read once again the words on Wooden’s building blocks of success, I was amazed at how many of them paralleled principles we have talked about in class as we worked our way through Oswald Sanders’ book, Spiritual Leadership. Things like integrity, character…and others. In a future blog I’ll make more specific references to Wooden’s quotes and principles that I think could be used for worship leadership success as well.
Jubal, you should have seen John Wooden’s basketball teams play. They were really good!