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Choose one of the four lessons discussed in this lecture and explain how you can use it to improve your abilities as a leader. Provide specific examples.
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Point three – When you have God’s heart, you can achieve amazing things. Starting in my mid-twenties, I begin to serve in leadership capacities within my local church. Over time I was promoted to leadership positions within our church body on the district level. The last twenty-four year of employment in secular jobs, I held management / leadership positions. All of these doors were open to me by God in God’s timing. Knowing this was God’s call upon my life, I sought Him continually for guidance and direction. I saw myself as serving God and not working for man or the benefits the positions offered. Colossians 3:23 says, and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men. This serve as my foundation scripture in my endeavor to please my God, and to make thing better than the way I found them. God blessed and His hand could be seen on me and in the work that I did.
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God puts leaders in place for a reason. God always has a reason and a plan for every believer and especially for leaders in the Kingdom. I have to first see myself as a leader, which I do. I then have to search to find out what God wants of me as a leader. I must know His plans for me and not my own. It is only when I am in the right place and doing the correct things for God that I can be a truly effective servant leader. I cannot always see the reason that I have been placed in a specific leadership role, but God knows why. It is my responsibility to figure out what that purpose is and to then fulfill it to the best of my ability. This can be challenging to accept at times, but it is still true regardless.
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God puts leaders in a place for a reason, enjoy knowing God has a purpose for you and the people you lead. Accept the leaders that lead you
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I teach at a Christian school. I am retired from public school. In both circumstances I try to apply point number 3 by inspiring students, pointing them to God, and helping them become all God wants them to be.
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Lesson #3 Keeping God first and obeying his commands. In the homeless ministry at my church, we listen and reflect with a plan to reach these individuals with God’s direction. As a group we open up to reach other to learn how each team did in the community. This model helps the leader make adjustments for the next time.