Are you comfortable leading?
Leadership is all about relationships and if you can’t lead your family you won’t be able to lead anyone else.
You have to lead people differently because every person is different.
We impress people from far away but we impact people from up close.
Show people how to get it right after you have gotten it wrong.
Most problems can be traced to a problem of competent leadership.
We blame people instead of taking responsibility.
We have a leadership shortage. We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
Jesus said, “Follow me.” Paul said, “Follow me as I follow Christ.”
Your church will take on your personality. We should never expect from others what we are not willing to do.
If you can’t say, “Follow me” then we have a problem. We need to be able to say to our congregation, “Follow my example”, “Follow my values”. “Forgive as I forgive”,
You need to spend %50 of your time working on you. 25% working on leading up. 20% leading horizontal, and 5% of your time leading down.
If you are going to say “Follow me, as I follow Christ”
- You need to have been called. You need a call greater than your critics.
- You need character. Personal identity and emotional security. Struggling with character falls into three areas: Significance, Acceptance, Security
Significance leads to performance now you have the fear of failure. Acceptance leads to pleasing which leads to the fear of rejection. Security leads to control and the fear is uncertainty. When this is the leaders DNA then we don’t lead very well. We are not valued by what we do but Whose we are. Emotional health. When people get born again we want people to get knowledge and then after we give knowledge we want people to serve and then they hit a wall. We can break through the wall which is painful or we can go back to more knowledge and more serving. When you break through the wall you find authenticity, transparency, and vulnerability.
Jesus had: nothing to prove - nothing to lose - and nothing to hide.
- Clarity. Be clear about who God is, about who you are, about your purpose.
- Courage. Courage to start again, courage to fail, to confront. Lack of courage finds its roots in a lack of character. Isa. 41:10
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