The Goal of all Church leaders and the offices they hold is the Great Commission in Mattew 28. The Great Comission is their mandate. When you use your gift, review the results Spend more time at it. Office holders and office seekers needs a level of self-awareness about their talents and abilities. You attitude in your heart is the most important factor in your life as a leader. It will cover many faults.
What leaders say about leadership
Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself. Leadership without love degenerates into self-serving manipulation.
RICK WARREN, Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 2008.
Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.
RICK WARREN, Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 2008
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.
JOHN C. MAXWELL, Leadership Gold
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
Exodus 18.
In chapter 18 advice is given using laws and rulings. Advice is given on the best way on how to organize the elders so they care effectively lend assistance. A system is being put into place for leadership to administer. A great leader humbly accepts advice from others. A great leader delegates responsibility. A great leader will not try to do it all himself.
What the Bible Says About Leadership
Prioritize Getting The Word Out.
1 Timothy 4:11-14
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Get the word out. Teach all these things. And don't let anyone put you down because you're young. Teach believers with your life: by word, by demeanor, by love, by faith, by integrity. Stay at your post reading Scripture, giving counsel, teaching. And that special gift of ministry you were given when the leaders of the church laid hands on you and prayed—keep that dusted off and in use.
Be Arawre Of What you Are Attempting To Do.
1 Timothy 3:1-7
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Leadership in the Church.
If anyone wants to provide leadership in the church, good! But there are preconditions: A leader must be well-thought-of, committed to his wife, cool and collected, accessible, and hospitable. He must know what he's talking about, not be overfond of wine, not pushy but gentle, not thin-skinned, not money-hungry. He must handle his own affairs well, attentive to his own children and having their respect. For if someone is unable to handle his own affairs, how can he take care of God's church? He must not be a new believer, lest the position go to his head and the Devil trip him up. Outsiders must think well of him, or else the Devil will figure out a way to lure him into his trap.
Be Aware Of Who You Are ultimately Serving.
2 Chronicles 15:6-7
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Then Azariah son of Obed, moved by the Spirit of God, went out to meet Asa. He said, "Listen carefully, Asa, and listen Judah and Benjamin: God will stick with you as long as you stick with him. If you look for him he will let himself be found; but if you leave him he'll leave you. For a long time Israel didn't have the real God, nor did they have the help of priest or teacher or book. But when they were in trouble and got serious, and decided to seek God, the God of Israel, God let himself be found. At that time it was a dog-eat-dog world; life was constantly up for grabs—no one, regardless of country, knew what the next day might bring. Nation battered nation, city pummeled city. God let loose every kind of trouble among them.
"But it's different with you: Be strong. Take heart. Payday is coming!"
Be Plain , Down To Earth, Honest, And Simple In Dealings.
2 Timothy 2:14-18
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Repeat these basic essentials over and over to God's people. Warn them before God against pious nitpicking, which chips away at the faith. It just wears everyone out. Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won't be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple. Stay clear of pious talk that is only talk. Words are not mere words, you know. If they're not backed by a godly life, they accumulate as poison in the soul. Hymenaeus and Philetus are examples, throwing believers off stride and missing the truth by a mile by saying the resurrection is over and done with.
Remind Them Who You Are Representing.
Isaiah 30:19-22
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Oh yes, people of Zion, citizens of Jerusalem, your time of tears is over. Cry for help and you'll find it's grace and more grace. The moment he hears, he'll answer. Just as the Master kept you alive during the hard times, he'll keep your teacher alive and present among you. Your teacher will be right there, local and on the job, urging you on whenever you wander left or right: "This is the right road. Walk down this road." You'll scrap your expensive and fashionable god-images. You'll throw them in the trash as so much garbage, saying, "Good riddance!"
Remember Proper Procedures.
Proverbs 11:14
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Without good direction, people lose their way;
the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.
Remember From Where Your Authority Comes From.
Acts 20:28
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"Now it's up to you. Be on your toes—both for yourselves and your congregation of sheep. The Holy Spirit has put you in charge of these people—God's people they are—to guard and protect them. God himself thought they were worth dying for.
God Has Set Leadership In Motion.
Numbers 27:15-17
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Moses responded to God: "Let God, the God of the spirits of everyone living, set a man over this community to lead them, to show the way ahead and bring them back home so God's community will not be like sheep without a shepherd."
Planning, Planning, Planning.
Luke 14:28-30
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"Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn't first sit down and figure the cost so you'll know if you can complete it? If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money, you're going to look pretty foolish. Everyone passing by will poke fun at you: 'He started something he couldn't finish.'
You Are A Leader Through Nothing Of Yourselves.
Mark 10:41-45
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When the other ten heard of this conversation, they lost their tempers with James and John. Jesus got them together to settle things down. "You've observed how godless rulers throw their weight around," he said, "and when people get a little power how quickly it goes to their heads. It's not going to be that way with you. Whoever wants to be great must become a servant. Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave. That is what the Son of Man has done: He came to serve, not to be served—and then to give away his life in exchange for many who are held hostage."
Essentals Of Leadership.
Proverbs 20:28
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Love and truth form a good leader;
sound leadership is founded on loving integrity.
Examine You Motives And Guard Your Perceptions.
1 Timothy 6:1-2
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1 Timothy 6
Whoever is a slave must make the best of it, giving respect to his master so that outsiders don't blame God and our teaching for his behavior. Slaves with Christian masters all the more so—their masters are really their beloved brothers!
The Lust for Money.
These are the things I want you to teach and preach. If you have leaders there who teach otherwise, who refuse the solid words of our Master Jesus and this godly instruction, tag them for what they are: ignorant windbags who infect the air with germs of envy, controversy, bad-mouthing, suspicious rumors. Eventually there's an epidemic of backstabbing, and truth is but a distant memory. They think religion is a way to make a fast buck.
Each Leader Will Be Unique.
Ephesians 4:11-16
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But that doesn't mean you should all look and speak and act the same. Out of the generosity of Christ, each of us is given his own gift. The text for this is,
He climbed the high mountain,
He captured the enemy and seized the booty,
He handed it all out in gifts to the people.
Is it not true that the One who climbed up also climbed down, down to the valley of earth? And the One who climbed down is the One who climbed back up, up to highest heaven. He handed out gifts above and below, filled heaven with his gifts, filled earth with his gifts. He handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher to train Christ's followers in skilled servant work, working within Christ's body, the church, until we're all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God's Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ.
No prolonged infancies among us, please. We'll not tolerate babes in the woods, small children who are an easy mark for impostors. God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love—like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will grow up healthy in God, robust in love.
Leadership In You Will Be Made To Fit Your Personality.
Romans 12:4
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In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. The body we're talking about is Christ's body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn't amount to much, would we? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ's body, let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't.
If You Have Not Yielded Your Leadership To Him You Are Against Him.
Matthew 12:30
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"This is war, and there is no neutral ground. If you're not on my side, you're the enemy; if you're not helping, you're making things worse.
Remember The Source Of Your Office.
Mark 10:35
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The Highest Places of Honor.
James and John, Zebedee's sons, came up to him. "Teacher, we have something we want you to do for us."
Know Your Limitations And What You Were Before.
Romans 7:17-20
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But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.
Consequences of Not Knowing Him.
Romans 1:26-27
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Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn't know how to be human either—women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.
Things To Remember About Church Leadership.
Most attempts to define leadership can be confusing because they refer to one or more characteristics of a leader instead of the duties of the office that a leader is called to.
One can look at leadership as one of many conduit that direct the love and expectations from God to the people.
All leadership is streamed from Jesus. Jesus leads His church and He made you a leader for that purpose. All authority comes from Him. You have nothing to brag about.
The steriotype of leadership is found in the image of a Shepherd leading his sheep. One outstanding characteristic of a shepherd is love and patience.
One can look at leadership as one of many conduit that direct the love and expectations from God to the people.
Remember that leaders are office holders and the offices have names and functions.
An Elder of the church are appoint to and should be able to teach correct doctrine and refute error. the word elder suggest an level of maturity in Christ of an person.
An Overseer of the church connotes a superintendent, in general charge of a church. Overseers can be thought also as pastors, teachers, and evangelists. In any case a overseer exercises leadership from the Lord.
Pastor of the church is one of being a spiritual shepherd. A pastor contributes to the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry. A pastor contributes for the building up of the body of Christ.
The office of Deacon is somewhat describe as an officer of the local church who serve through conducting the caring ministry of the church. By caring means doing the benevolence work; That is, visiting the sick, watchfulness to the spiritual needs of the congregation. Deacons take some the load of work off of the pastor.
The Goal of all Church leaders and the offices they hold is the Great Commission. The Great Comission is their mandate.
Practice
Church leaders, in pursuit of fulfilling the office they are called to need to work with the gifts they have been given. The need here is practice. They have the gift, now they need to develop.
If you have the gift of speaking, develop it. Make it grow toward perfection
If you have the gift of encouragement, recognize the implication of those who are not so fortunate in life, Broaden your horizons. When you use your gift, review the results Spend more time at it. Office holders and office seekers needs a level of self-awareness about their talents and abilities.
In service to the church, the best will be given best when your gifting are being used and brought to their fullest potential. If you gift is speaking well, then speak well and often. If your gift is relational, practice it and study your failures. Is attention to detail your strong point? Then practice organization and review your result often.
Love
Display the love you have in your heart. Your love will grow by leaps and bounds. Practice love and it will grow. You attitude in your heart is the most important factor in your life as a leader. It will cover many faults.
Remember
The consequence of conversion is a growth process, a daily growth in the love and knowledge of Christ. God is not finished with you yet. Another fact for sure is that the Christian leaders footing is rooted in God’s unchanging nature. His nature is the absolute good. God’s will is always good and right and set apart, that is Holy. This along moves it an absolute necessity for the leadership of the Church. There is nothing theoretical about the role of God in the leaders life.
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