Leadership Gods Way

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Leadership Gods Way

• Principles from Gods Word

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Principle 1 Process

• Things happen in a process, not instantaneously

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Leaders are not made in a microwave they are
made in a crockpot

• - John Maxwell

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Joseph

• Genesis 371-2 17 year old with a dream
• Genesis 391-426 13 year preparation
• Potiphars household
• Jail
• Genesis 4141 Second to Pharaoh
• 7 yrs of plenty 2 yrs of famine

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Moses

• Exodus 211-14 40 years old
• Acts 722-28
• 40 years tending sheep
• 40 years leading Israel

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Joshua

• Exodus 179 General of the Army
• Exodus 2413 Minister to Moses
• Exodus 3311 Tent of Meeting
• Numbers 1121 People complain
• Numbers 131 Kadesh-barnea
• Numbers 27 Commissioned

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Application

• Leaders are made, not born
• Leadership can be developed
• We must continue to seek to be better leaders

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Principle 2 Leaders Develop Leaders

• Only leaders can develop other leaders
  followers cant do it

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Moses and Joshua

• Exodus 179 General of the Army
• Exodus 2413 Minister to Moses
• Exodus 3311 Tent of Meeting
• Numbers 1121 People complain
• Numbers 131 Kadesh-barnea
• Numbers 27 Commissioned

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Moses and Joshua

• 40 years
• Moses was faithful to Joshua
• Joshua was faithful to Moses
• Both were faithful to God
• Matthew 1024

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Paul and Timothy

• 1 Thessalonians 27-12 parenting
• Not teaching
• People teach what they know
• People reproduce who they are
• Living examples vs. preaching examples

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Paul and Timothy

• The next generation of leaders will be those we
  raise
• We wont live forever
• Someone must lead
• When we develop our successors, we touch lives of
  people well never meet

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Application

• We need to be on the lookout for potential
  leaders
• We need to develop new leaders
• To replace us
• To start new groups

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Principle 3 Lead

• The leader must lead,
• not take a poll

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Joshua

• Numbers 141-10

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Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 11-11
• Nehemiah 21-20

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Deborah

• Judges 4

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Application

• Lesson plan discussion not a free-for-all
• Lead the discussion to see the main points
• Not lecturing, but not voting

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Principle 4 Motivate

• Leaders are self-motivated
• Followers need motivation
• Must buy into the leader
• Must buy into the vision

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Rehoboam

• 1 Kings 121-16

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Paul

• 2 Timothy

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Application

• Motivation to study
• Motivation to come to class
• Motivation to live by a Biblical world view

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Principle 5 Dont Go It Alone

• Moses had Aaron and Hur
• Rehoboam had counselors
• Bad counsel
• Wise counsel

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David

• Jonathan
• 1 Samuel 181-3
• Family
• 1 Samuel 221-2
• Administrators
• 2 Samuel 815-18 2023-26
• Mighty men
• 2 Samuel 238-39
• Army
• 1 Chronicles 23

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Application

• Dont go it alone
• People who can help you, add value, increase your
  effectiveness
• Prayer support
• Administrative help
• Exhortation

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Leadership

• Our response to Gods call on our lives