MARKETPLACE FACTS Module 303 E
GEMS ON SERVANT LEADERSHIP From John Maxwell Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your market place practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Leadership is servant hood • Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must become your slave. (Matt. 20:26b, 27) (See Mk. 9:35; 10:43,45)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
If you can't live it, you won't teach it • Ezra had determined to study and obey the law of the Lord and to teach those laws and regulations to the people of Israel. (Ezra 7:10b) (See Ezra 8:1-9; 1 Tim.. 3:2)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Leadership means you go first. • ’Let's go across to see those pagans,’ Jonathan said to his armour bearer. ‘Perhaps the Lord will help us…’ ‘Do what you think is best,’ the youth replied. ‘I'm with you completely, whatever you decide.’ (1 Sam. 14:6a,7) (See 1 Sam. 18:7; 23:16; 30) Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
You need to change yourself before you change others. • First get rid of the log from your own eye; then perhaps you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye. (Matt. 7:5b) (See Jer. 15:19; 2 Tim. 2:21; 1 Pet. 1:22)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Great leaders ask for great commitment. • Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:33b) (See Matt. 10:38,39; Lk 18:22,29,30; 19:23,24; John 12:25,26)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Leaders must always replenish themselves. • Jesus made the disciples…go on ahead of him to the other side. • He (then) went up on a mountainside by himself to pray…He was there alone. (Matt. 14:22a,23a,c) (See Mark 6:31; Luke 5:15,16; 6:12)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Leaders lift others to a level they could not reach by themselves. • Leaders are lid lifters. Jesus looked intently at Peter for a moment and then said, ‘You are Simon, John's son--but you shall be called Peter, the rock!’ (John 1:42b) (See Isa. 60:22; John 14:12)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
There is no success without sacrifice. • I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. • But if it dies, it produces many seeds. (John 12:24) (See Acts 20:24, 31; Gal. 4:19; 1 Thess 2:8,9; 2 Tim. 1:3) Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Leaders choose and develop the people around them: • Paul to Timothy The things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. (2 Tim. 2:2b) (See Eph. 4:11-16; Col. 1:28,29; 1 Thess. 2:7,8,11,12)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Leaders know that there is no success without successors. • I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most men do. (Neh. 7:2) (See Exodus 18:21b; Col. 1:7,8; 2 Tim. 2:2)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
It's amazing • What you can accomplish if the leader doesn't take the credit. Jesus called the Twelve and said, ‘If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.’ (Mark 9:35,36) (See 1Cor. 15:10; Eph. 3:7,8; 1 Tim. 1:15,16) Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
You get people the size of your vision. • Small vision, small people; big vision, big people. • God to Abraham I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you… and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. (Gen.12:2a, 3b)
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
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Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
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Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership
Marketplace facts: Gems on servant leadership