Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Passage to memorize Psalm 86:9-12 Teach me your way O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you o Lord my God with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Eli’s leadership: Success as a priest, not as a parent 1 Samuel: 2:12-17, 22-36
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Eli’s failure • He failed to discipline his two sons • Eli lost credibility, his job and eventually his life • If it doesn’t work at home, don’t export it Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Eli’s failure The scripture teaches that if we do not faithfully lead our own household, we lack the qualifications to lead beyond the home Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Eli miss the mark by making some crucial errors Emphasis: Eli emphasized his colleagues and clients, not his family
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Eli miss the mark by making some crucial errors Expectation: Eli thought his sons would “ get it” just because they lived in the house of the Lord
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Eli miss the mark by making some crucial errors Example: Eli failed to live out in his home what he taught in work
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Eli miss the mark by making some crucial errors Entanglements: Eli got so caught up with his profession, he blinded himself to his failure
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Leading our children • God calls parents to lead their children • He tells them that if they train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it. Prov 22:6 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
How does a parent becomes a good leader for his child?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Modelling • There is but one way to train up a child in the way he should go. And that is to travel by yourself. Abraham Lincoln • A good example is worth a 1000 sermons Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Modelling What you do has more impact on your child than all the lectures you could ever give
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Management • Good management is the ability to discern the uniqueness of a child and teach him or her accordingly • We are to train up a child in the way he should go Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
We are to train up a child in the way he should go This may mean we will have to adapt our style, depending on the child’s temperament and wiring
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Memories
Parents should create memories
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
HER HER She is trustworthy, a ATTITUDES APPLAUSE
positive influence, hard worker, planner and protective
HER ACHIEVEMENTS
HER ASSETS
A Woman of influence. Proverbs 31: 10-31 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
She meets the need of HER HER her home, keeps herself ATTITUDES APPLAUSE in shape, helps her husband becomes successful and invests for her household HER HER ASSETS ACHIEVEMENTS A Woman of influence. Proverbs 31: 10-31 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
HER ATTITUDES Delightful,
HER APPLAUSE
healthy, compassionate, unselfish and HER public HER ASSETS
ACHIEVEMENTS
A Woman of influence. Proverbs 31: 10-31 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
HER Applause ATTITUDES
HER from her APPLAUSE family, husband, God’s Word and her works
HER ACHIEVEMENTS
HER ASSETS
A Woman of influence. Proverbs 31: 10-31 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Leadership in the Home Leadership at home is not about power and control. Husbands to be Christ figures
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
How did Christ lead the church? He provided, taught, wept, healed, and died on the cross
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Spiritual leadership means • Giving up yourself for someone else • Assuming responsibility for the health and development of your relationships • Study Ephesians 5: 21-33 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Evaluate your home leadership 1. Initiative. Do you give direction and take responsibility for your primary relationships Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Evaluate your home leadership 2. Intimacy. Do you experience intimacy with God and others through open conversation
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Evaluate your home leadership 3.Influence. Do you exercise biblical influence by encouraging and developing others
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Evaluate your home leadership 4. Integrity. Do you lead an honest life, unashamed of who you are when no one is looking
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Evaluate your home leadership 5.Identity. Are you secure in who you are in Christ. Or are you defensive
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Evaluate your home leadership 6. Inner character. Do you exhibit the fruit of the Spirit in your life, including self-discipline
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Leadership in the home. 1 Peter 3: 1-7 • Wives to submit to their husbands • Husbands to live with their wives in an understanding way
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Leadership in the home. 1 Peter 3: 1-7 • Husbands to honour their wives and model submission and service • They are to initiate blessing rather that to retaliate when things go wrong Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Spiritual leaders assume responsibility for the health of their relationships This means they set the tone. They must initiate what they want others to do
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word. 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 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Jesus Jesus Take Me As I Am
Take me as I am And I will call You Lord Come take me here and now And be my Saviour Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Holy one, mighty one Son of God, I worship You Lord Take me as I am And I will call You Lord Come take me here and now And be my Saviour Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Holy one, mighty one Son of God, I give my life to You Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
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) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
Learning, application and commitment • One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me ….. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Family