Servant LeaderGathering

Fostering & Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders

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Today Explore Biblical foundations for a definition of

Christ-like Servant Leadership Consider where the marks of a Christ-like Servant

Leader are evident in your life Consider where the marks of Christ-like Servant

Leadership are evident in homes, workplaces, communities, congregations, and the world

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At your table, share Your name What made you decide to come today One hope you have for this day

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Leadership What is a leader?

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Servant Leadership What is a servant leader?

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature. – Robert Greenleaf

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Christ-like Servant Leadership What is a Christ-like Servant Leader?

Incarnation: Philippians 2:6-8 Missio Dei: 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

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Know ‘em when you see ‘em

Jesus’ definition: Matthew 20:25-28 Paul’s helps: Philippians 2:1-4 Jesus’ example: John 13:1-3

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DefinitionA KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others:

1 Celebrate their Baptismal identity,

Restored

Gifted

Called

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DefinitionA KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others:

2 grow more Christ-like, manifesting the grace-filled marks of obedience, health, purpose, community and generosity; and

A reconciling servant in the world who follows the example that Jesus set

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DefinitionA KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others:

3 foster and multiply generations of Christ-like servant leaders in their homes, workplaces, congregations, communities, and the world.

helping others recognize themselves, accept the role, and actively engage as reconciling, Christ-like servant leaders wherever they may be

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Conversation

What stands out for you in the KINDLE definition of a Christ-like Servant Leader?

What challenges you?

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The Marks: A Lifelong Perspective

God shapes people over an entire lifetime God intends to develop us to reach the maximum

potential A lifelong perspective provides many keys Shaping processes can be identified Patterns can be identified

From “The Life Cycle of a Leader” by Robert Clinton & Richard Clinton in Leaders on Leadership, p. 156.

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Post-It Note Timeline

Titles:

Post-It Note timeline adapted from Refocus process by Church Revitalization Movement.

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Step # 1 – Brainstorm

Brainstorm significant people and events …Regarding your familyRegarding the racial

diversity of your community Regarding your faith journey

Ask the Spirit to reveal things to you

Write near the bottom of the note; consider writing the year in the corner

One itemper note

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Step # 2 – Identify Painful Events

Identify those events that were painful … Rewrite them on pink

Post-it notes Replace yellow with

pink

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Step # 3 – Chronological Order

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Step # 3 continued …

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Step # 3 continued …

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Step # 3 continued …

Earliest note top left Integrate pink and yellow as you go When you arrive at the margin on the bottom or

you find the next Post-it represents a whole new facet of your life, start a new column.

Leave a 1-2” margin on top

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Chapter Titles:

Step # 4 – Major Chapters

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Step # 4 – Continued …

Look for natural break points (endings and beginnings)

Those times when the major theme of your life/growth/ development shifted

Look for 3-5 of them (often more than one column)

Major Chapters

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Step # 5 continued …

Obedience Health Purpose Community Generosity

Grace-filled

Marks of a Christ-

like Servant Leader

Where in your life do you see these marks?

Write the mark on the post-it…

Or it could be the absence of

one of the marks that is significant

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Cluster Conversation

Share one time when one of the Marks of a Christ-like Servant Leader (or its’ absence) showed in your life.

Where did you see the Marks played out in homes, workplaces, communities, congregations, and the world?

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Blessing(Name) I celebrate your baptismal identity,

and I pray God’s blessing on you as you grow more Christ-like, manifesting the grace-filled marks of obedience, health, purpose, community and generosity; and foster and multiply generations of Christ-like servant leaders in all the places God has you. Amen!