Leadership Excellence

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Leadership Excellence

• Character

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Character Qualifications(I Tim. 32-7 Titus
16-9)

• Character in Personal Life
• Character in Family Life
• Character in Spiritual Life
• Character in Interpersonal Relationships
• Character in Ministry
• Character Development

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Character in Personal Life

• Temperate ( I Tim. 32 Titus 18)
• Prudent (I Tim. 32 Titus 18)
• Not addicted to wine (I Tim. 33 Titus 17)
• Not pugnacious (I Tim. 33 Titus 17)
• Gentle (I Tim. 33)
• Uncontentious (I Tim. 33)
• Not self-willed (Titus 17)
• Free from the love of money (I Tim. 33 Titus
  17)
• Just (Titus 18)
• A lover of good (Titus 18)
• Sensible (Titus 18)

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Character in Family Life

• The husband of one wife
• (I Tim. 32 Titus 16)
• A good manager of his own household
• (I Tim. 34 Titus 16)

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Character in Spiritual Life

• Devout
• (Titus 18)
• Holding fast the faithful word
• (Titus 19)
• Not a new convert
• (1 Tim. 36)

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Character in Interpersonal Relationships

• Good reputation outside the church
• (I. Tim. 37)
• Respectable
• (I Tim. 32)

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Character in Ministry

• Hospitable
• (I Tim. 32 Titus 18)
• Able to teach
• (I Tim. 32 Titus 19)

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Character Development

• Strengths - Spiritual gifts and natural talents
• Weaknesses - Unrealized spiritual gifts or
  underdeveloped natural talents
• Limitations - Spiritual gifts God has NOT given
  us or natural talents we DO NOT possess
• Flaws - Cracks in our character

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Character Development (cont.)

• Focus on your Strengths
• Work on your Weaknesses
• Staff to your Limitations
• Expose and Deal with your Flaws

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Character Flaws
2. Sinful Choices in our Responses/Actions -------
-------------------------------- 1. Sinful Bias
in our Nature
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Dealing with Flaws

• 1) Identify them
• Recognize them before they occur is half the
  battle.
• 2) Take them to the Lord
• Honestly acknowledge them as sin.
• Thank Him that His blood covers them all.
• Ask for His strength to break the pattern when
  they occur.
• 3) Be alert to them
• Identify "trigger" situations in which they
  commonly occur.
• Seek God's help and strength in those situations
• 4) Get into an accountability relationship
• Develop a few relationships in which there is
  high trust level so that you could reveal your
  struggle without fear of rejection
• Commit to hold each other accountable for
  specific issues and to support each other in
  dealing with them.