{"id":70355,"date":"2018-04-19T18:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T22:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70355"},"modified":"2018-04-19T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T22:30:32","slug":"ct-gleanings-remembering-bob-buford-the-christian-leaders-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70355","title":{"rendered":"(CT Gleanings) Remembering Bob Buford, the Christian Leader\u2019s Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">A businessman, philanthropist, management coach, and inspirational author, the late Bob Buford worked behind the scenes to build a legacy that quietly extends to some of the most prominent figures, organizations, and megachurches in American Christianity today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix section-newsletters spacer-top-10\">Buford, who\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/leadnet.org\/bob-buford-dies-leaving-legacy-leadership-network-halftime-institute-drucker-institute-bestselling-books\/\">died Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0at age 78, was a leader\u2019s leader. It\u2019s no wonder that he founded an organization simply called Leadership Network, designed to bring together Christian leaders and help them make their ministries more effective and innovative.<\/div>\n<p class=\"text\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/1996\/winter\/6l1119.html\">Buford<\/a>\u00a0was a friend to\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/1999\/november15\/9td042.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Drucker<\/a>\u00a0and helped introduce the famous management guru\u2019s thinking to the church. A Texas native and former cable TV executive, Buford was committed to serving fellow Christians in ministry, always asking, \u201cWhat can we do to be more useful to you?\u201d and happy to have his fruit \u201cgrow on other people\u2019s trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, explains on his CT blog the impact of one of the\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2014\/april\/catalyst-that-fostered-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most influential but least known<\/a>\u00a0chuch leaders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/april\/bob-buford-died-leadership-network-halftime-peter-drucker.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A businessman, philanthropist, management coach, and inspirational author, the late Bob Buford worked behind the scenes to build a legacy that quietly extends to some of the most prominent figures, organizations, and megachurches in American Christianity today. Buford, who\u00a0died Wednesday\u00a0at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70355\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70356,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70355\/revisions\/70356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}