Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
The Learning Ministry Mario Denton Module 502 H Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Brain Teaser: What do you see
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
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: The Learning Ministry
Your current knowledge • It is a dangerous attitude to think that your current knowledge and achievements will assure future success. • When ministries stop learning they set themselves up for failure. • Judges 2:1-11. The lost generation Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Create an atmosphere that encourage learning • What are you currently doing to open yourself up for new ideas? • What structures have your ministry in place to stimulate learning?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
God will give us greater amounts of illumination as we respond to the light we have already received.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Return to me! Zechariah 1:2-6 • Revelation always demand a response. • When people fail to learn and apply the illumination they have received form the Lord, they lose their personal effectiveness and stop growing. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
• Is there an area of your life in which you have been having difficulty in learning how to respond in appropriate ways? • Have you committed this in prayer to the Lord?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
People will learn if they were provided with: • • • • •
Standards Instructions Practice Feedback Release
See : Colossians 1:9-10 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Standards • For the ministry, it is knowledge of God’s will. • Followers in your ministry can’t improve unless hey know what the standards are. • Leaders must set and communicate the standards. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
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A seven-step process for Determine which areas in benchmarking
your ministry that you would like to benchmark Identify key performance variables to measure Identify the best-in-class ministries
Measure performance of best-in-class
Measure your own performance
Specify programmes and actions to “meet and surpass” Implement and monitor results
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Effective Learning Error Correction Χ “Cover My Behind Culture”
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
What have you been ignoring that is
calling for your attention?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Facilitating Change in you ministry Present Stage Where are we? • What are our strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities? • What are the internal demands? • What will happen if we continue to respond to internal and external demands as we currently do? • Where do we need to be? • What needs to change? • Do we want to change? • Are we ready? • What resources, leverage, access, power do we have? • Do we have the skills?
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Levels of coaching conversations Fundamental change Building Competence Resolving problems
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Coaching Contract My development area The specific area I want to develop
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My objective My broad objective / what I would like to achieve:
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Milestones, problems and solutions My milestones / specific targets by which I will measure my improvement:
Possible barriers, resistance etc. I may encounter: My solutions to avoid or deal with these problems: Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Your activities and resource requirements My list of sequenced steps to bring about the desired change
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People, time, materials, equipment, money etc. I will need:
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
Benefits and commitment This is the added value I will achieve: We agree to make the commitment of time and money needed to carry out this Action Plan. We further agree to meet at the times noted below to review progress towards the achievement of milestones and objective. This plan will be modified as my be needed 1. Signed: ……………………………….. 2. Signed: ………………………….. Dated:…………………………………. ………………………………. Progress Reviews Date: Time: Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
“Eat as if you have just had a heart attack. Work as if your job description is under consideration. Talk as if you can overhear what you say. Live as if you are going to have a face-to-face with your Creator any moment.” Stephen Covey
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
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: The Learning Ministry
Lord I Lift Your name on high LORD I LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH LORD I LOVE TO SING YOUR PRAISES I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE IN MY LIFE I'M SO GLAD YOU CAME TO SAVE US YOU CAME FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH TO SHOW THE WAY FROM THE EARTH TO THE CROSS MY DEBT TO PAY FROM THE CROSS TO THE GRAVE FROM THE GRAVE TO THE SKY LORD I LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
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: The Learning Ministry
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: The Learning Ministry
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: The Learning Ministry