Refreshing Leadership Series

CHALLENGE:

My desire for us as a community is to have refreshing leadership, leaders that you can have confidence in, that have your best in mind, which absolutely includes the mission of the church – to continually make disciples of the Lord Jesus.

So, as the Lord gives them…

FOLLOW BIBLICAL LEADERS.

This is what you should want – leaders that fulfill the Scriptural qualifications.

Please don’t settle for less.

So…

Require leaders to be qualified according to Scripture.

You are not looking for superior oratorical abilities.

You are not looking for organizational genius.

These are not the qualifications of Scripture.

ILL Leadership (S)

Gen. H Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Good advice, I believe, so…

Expect leaders to act according to Biblical standards.

What do we want in our leadership?

We want leadership that is based on the Holy Spirit.

We want leaders that know God, hear God, and follow His Word.

We also want leaders that live the Word of God, with proven character.

Finally…

Do not give in to the temptation to operate by worldly principles.

Please understand that my final words of the message today are without agenda and without accusation.

Please do not misinterpret my words.

But as the church goes through this next transition, please realize that the stress in Scripture is always on character.

It is not about social stature.

It is not about experience in the business world.

It is not even about raw abilities.

It is more about purity than personality.

Spiritual success is not measured in dollars, percentages, numbers or attendance, but rather, when people are moved to be more like Christ.

For Further Study: Psalm 127.1; Hosea 4.9; Luke 22.24-27; John 13.4-5; Acts 14.23; I Corinthians 3.7-9, 11.1; Ephesians 4.12; I Timothy 3.1-7; II Timothy 2.15, 3.16-17, 4.2; Titus 1.5-9; Hebrews 13.7; I Peter 5.1-4; III John 9

BENEDICTION:

Men’s Bible Study – I Timothy 3

Baptisms – 21 June & 28 June

Child & Parent Dedication

PRACT Day

Now may the God of peace equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

RESOURCES:

SermonCentral

Anselmi, Jeffery The Work of a Leader

Chambers, Scott What Exactly Is an Elder?

La Pere, Jerry Does the Bible Tell Me So?

Other

Blackaby, Henry, and Richard Blackaby. Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God’s Agenda. Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2001.

Blanchard, Ken, and Phil Hodges. Lead Like Jesus: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Times. Nashville: W Publishing Group, 2005.

MacArthur, John, Jr. The Book on Leadership. Nashville: Nelson Books, 2004.