The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast CNLP 555 | John Mark Comer on The Sabbatical as a Hospital, How Stepping Down from Church Leadership Impacts Identity, The Secret Life of Trees, and Why Attending a Church After You've Led One Can Be So Hard
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Feb 28, 2023 
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Treat Rest Like Athletic Training
- Prioritize rest as a leadership discipline because recovery determines long-term performance.
- Comer applied athletic load management: plan years, months and weeks to protect Sabbath, sleep and recovery.
Overpromotion Makes Leaders Brittle
- Rapid promotion without long seasons of hidden growth produces brittle leaders who collapse under pressure.
- Comer used the forest canopy metaphor: young trees shoot up after a gap but then fall because roots and trunk never strengthened.
Never Lead A Church Alone Again
- Don’t lead a church alone; build a leadership team and embed a rule of life before launching.
- Comer would start with a team, a sustainable rule of life, table-based community and a Sabbath-focused Sunday structure.