leaders under

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leaders under

• introduction

GRACE
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Matthew 88-13

• Only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.
• For I also am a man under authority, having
  soldiers under me. And I say to this one, 'Go,'
  and he goes and to another, 'Come,' and he
  comes and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does
  it."
• When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to
  those who followed, "Assuredly, I say to you, I
  have not found such great faith, not even in
  Israel!
• And I say to you that many will come from east
  and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and
  Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
• But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into
  outer darkness. There will be weeping and
  gnashing of teeth."
• Then Jesus said to the centurion , "Go your way
  and as you have believed, so let it be done for
  you." And his servant was healed that same hour.

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The Centurion

• Not a religious man or Pharisee
• but a
  man who sought Jesus.
• Respectful regard for Jesus
• and
  loving regard for his servant.
• A man of position and stature
• and a
  man of humility
• A man under authority
• and a
  man with authority
• A man who was a Gentile
• and a
  model for Israel
• A leader with legal rights privilege
• who
  chose to be under grace

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and his servant was healed !

• He understood authority from over and under and
  the power of faith in Jesus and His authoritative
  Word, and results happened!

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• Leadership is influence -
  nothing more, nothing less.
• John Maxwell

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• Leadership is influence,
  the ability of one person to
  influence others
• Oswald Sanders
• Spiritual Leadership

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• The central task of leadership is influencing
  Gods people toward Gods purposes.
• Robert Clinton
• The Making of a Leader

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• Spiritual leadership is
  moving people on to Gods
  agenda.
• Henry Richard Blackaby
• Spiritual Leadership

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• L O R D
• E M P OW E R M E N T
• A L I G N M E N T
• D I R E C T I O N A L
• E F F E C T U A L
• R E L A T I O N A L
• S E R V A NT H O O D

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Leadership is a Relationship

• as a husband is to a wife
• as a parent is to a child
• as a friend is to a friend
• as an employer is to an employee
• a leader is to a follower

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Origins of Leadership Jethro/MosesExodus
1817-23

• The thing that you do is not good.
• Both you and these people who are with you will
  surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too
  much for you you are not able to perform it by
  yourself.
• Listen now to my voice I will give you counsel,
  and God will be with you Stand before God for
  the people, so that you may bring the
  difficulties to God.
• And you shall teach them the statutes and the
  laws, and show them the way in which they must
  walk and the work they must do.
• Moreover you shall select from all the people
  able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating
  covetousness and place such over them to be
  rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers
  of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• And let them judge the people at all times. Then
  it will be that every great matter they shall
  bring to you, but every small matter they
  themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for
  you, for they will bear the burden with you.
• If you do this thing, and God so commands you,
  then you will be able to endure, and all this
  people will also go to their place in peace.

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Origins of Leadership God/manGenesis 126-28

• Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,
  according to Our likeness let them have dominion
  over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the
  air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and
  over every creeping thing that creeps on the
  earth."
• So God created man in His own image in the image
  of God He created him male and female He created
  them.
• Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be
  fruitful and multiply fill the earth and subdue
  it have dominion over the fish of the sea, over
  the birds of the air, and over every living thing
  that moves on the earth.

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Origins of Leadership Jesus/ChurchEphesians
522-2632

• Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the
  Lord.
• For the husband is head of the wife, as also
  Christ is head of the church and He is the
  Savior of the body.
• Therefore, just as the church is subject to
  Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
  in everything.
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also
  loved the church and gave Himself for her.
• This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning
  Christ and the church.

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But Im Not A Leader ! ? !

• Employment
• Entrepreneur
• Volunteer
• Church
• School
• Family
• Self/Personal

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But Im Not A Leader ! ? !

• Employment
• Entrepreneur
• Volunteer
• Church
• School
• Family
• Self/Personal

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Personal (Self) Leadership1 Timothy 31-5

• This is a faithful saying If a man desires the
  position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
• A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of
  one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good
  behavior, hospitable, able to teach
• not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for
  money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous
  
• one who rules his own house well, having his
  children in submission with all reverence
• or if a man does not know how to rule his own
  house, how will he take care of the church of
  God?

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Personal (Self) LeadershipPsalms 425

• Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you
  disquieted within me? Hope in God,
• for I shall yet praise Him.

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Personal (Self) Leadership1 Corinthians 927

• I discipline my body
• and bring it into subjection

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Personal (Self) LeadershipRomans 612-14

• Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal
  body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• And do not present your members as instruments of
  unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to
  God as being alive from the dead and your members
  as instruments of righteousness to God.
• For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you
  are not under law but under grace .

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Matthew 1514

• Jesus calls religious leaders
• blind leaders of the blind.
• And if the blind leads the blind,
• both will fall into a ditch.

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The Leadership Equation

• GOD (LEADER)
• Follower/Leader
• Follower(s)/Leader(s)