Post on 18-Jan-2016
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GOD’S CALL FOR US TO LEAD
WHY AND HOW GOD CALLS US TO LEAD
Born to lead
1. Being made in God’s image means we were created to LEAD.
2. God gave humans AUTHORITY over the whole earth.
3. If God told us to rule, we must have the ABILITY to do it.
Divine Permission to Lead
• Excuse one: Who am I? (Ex. 3:11) Moses struggled with his IDENTITY. • Excuse two: Who are you? (Ex. 3:13) Moses struggled with INTIMACY.
• Excuse three: What if they don’t listen? (Ex. 4:1) Moses struggled with INTIMIDATION.
Divine Permission to Lead
• Excuse four: I’ve never been good speaker. (Ex. 4:10) Moses struggled with INADEQUACY.
• Excuse five: I know you can find someone else. (Ex. 4:13) Moses struggled with INFERIORITY.
The Global Leadership Crisis
The Period of the Judges
1. Chaos reigned because there was no precedent for AUTHORITY or ACCOUNTABILITY.
2. Aggressive ENEMIES surrounded them, since the Jews first occupied Canaan.
3. There were no government FUNDS for national defense or to enforce public safety.
The Period of the Judges
4. Other NATIONS influenced Israel with their idols and superstitions.
5. Heroes like Moses and Joshua were DEAD, and there was no EXPECTATION of order.
6. Momentum and morale were LOW so growth was not easy.
The Basics of Effective Leaders
1. They perceive a need.
When leadership is pure:
a. It always starts with a need.
b. That need sparks passion with a person.
c. That person acts in response to the need.
d. This action moves others to cooperate.
2. They possess a gift.
When leadership is pure:a. A person finds a GIFT inside of them.
b. They groom and DEVELOP that gift.
c. They eventually match that gift with a place of SERVICE.
d. The gift provides a platform for INFLUENCE.
e. They eventually flourish because of their GIFT.
3. They parade a passionPassion comes when a leader has complementary…
a. BURDENS – Your interest and concerns.
b. CONVICTIONS – Your values, principles and beliefs.
c. GIFTS – Your God-given abilities.
d. NEEDS – Your desperate circumstances.
e. OPPORTUNITIES – Your occasion to get involved
4. They persuade a people
Proven practices for getting things done:
1. What gets talked about gets done.
2. What gets trained gets done.
3. What gets measured gets done.
4. What gets budgeted gets done.
5. What gets confronted gets done.
6. What gets rewarded gets done.
5. They pursue a purposeIn judges, their purpose was…
1. PERSONAL: It fit their gifts and passions.
2. MEASURABLE: It involved activity that could be evaluated.
3. MEMORABLE: It was specific enough to be remembered and embraced.
In judges, their purpose was…
4. MEANINGFUL: It surrounded national issues that made a difference.
5. MOBILE: It could travel with them whenever they found themselves.
6. MORAL: It was right. They felt it not only could be done, but should be done.
6. They follow a vision
What is vision?
A clear mental picture of a better tomorrow, given by God, which moves a person to believe that it not only could be done, but it should be done.
Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained
Proverbs 29:18
The Definition of a Vision
Vision has nothing to do with sight. It is a process of the mind. It is mental not visual. It is seeing what everybody has seen but thinking what nobody has thought.
What could be worse than being born without a sight?
Being born with sight and no vision
-Helen Keller
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-Jonathan Swift
If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for a decade, plant trees. If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people.
-Chinese proverb
1. Get active in SERVICE and initiate obedience.
2. Communicate the REVELATION you have already.
3. OBSERVE and understand the reality of human conditions.
4. Allow God to BURDEN you with a specific need.
Steps to fulfilling God’s visionMatt. 9:35-10:8
5. Seek a divine diagnosis: What is the ISSUE TO BE RESOLVED?
6. PRAY to determine what action could meet that need.
7. Choose a team and EMPOWER them for partnership.
8. Take IMMEDIATE ACTION toward fulfillment of the vision.
THE PROVERB OF THE FISHERMAN
The old proverb goes:
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
THE PROVERB OF THE FISHERMAN
The old proverb goes:
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
Apply this to the Christian life:
If you feed a man
in Jesus’ name, he will live for a day.
If you lead him to become a disciple of
Jesus, he will live forever.
If you teach him how to make disciples, you can reach the whole world! (2 Tim.
2:2)
We could add:
“If you teach him to teach others how to fish,
you can feed the whole world!”
Four Levels of Maturity:
1. A person who is an obedient, growing disciple of Jesus.
Four Levels of Maturity:
2. A person who is helping others become disciples of Jesus.
Four Levels of Maturity:
3. A person who is helping a group of disciples become the Body of Christ (“church”).
Four Levels of Maturity:
4. A person who is helping churches multiply to reach their whole city or people group.
Personal Application:
At which of these four levels
are most Christians?
Personal Application:
At which level are you?
Personal Application:
If you hope to reach a whole community or
people group, at what level do you
need to be?
Personal Application:
With God’s help what level would you like to reach?
As an Ambassador of the Kingdom of God, your callingis to:
•Have a growing relationship with Christ.
•Lead others into a growing relationship with Him in the Body of Christ.
•Train new believers to make disciples and start new churches!
That is how we can reach the whole world!
Do you have a vision?
What is your vision?
How big is your vision?
What makes you cry / weep?
What makes you angry?
What makes you pound the table?
What needs do you feel burdened by
and uniquely qualified to fulfill?
What do you see yourself doing in
20 years?
Who will continue your vision?
What will you leave the next generation?
What will you do before you die?