Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Passage to memorize Luke 12: 32-34 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Values are: • • • • • •
Uncompromisable Unbeatable truth Motivational Drives behaviour Restrictive A person will pursue what that person loves
• They gave us reasons why we do things • They place boundaries around behaviour • Drive actions
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
I will not be shaken
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Value driven behaviour: Psalm 15 • Leaders who are value driven reap a great benefit from the Lord. • Their confidence will give them emotional and spiritual stability. • What values do you see driving your behaviour? • Integrate Godly values into your professional and personal life. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Values Goshen College
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
The moral values of the world versus God’s value for his People • Self-interest • Situational ethics • Situational conditioning • Shallow • Subjective
• The ten commandments See Exodus 20: 117 • Matthew 6: 1-34 • People work better with clearly understood values
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Read Psalm 119:1-32 • Our deepest values must be to honour and please God. • Psalm 119: 11. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
What God values in Leaders What leaders value: • Risk • Speed, a “get it done” mentality • Independence, control • Competition, winning
What God values in leaders: • Dependence on Him • Abiding, listening, investing time in your relationship with Him • Trusting Him instead of your plans • Obedience
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
What gladdens you? • What gladdens or satisfies a leader makes a crucial statement of his or her values. • Godly leaders live by God’s eternal values of truth, beauty, goodness, love and justice, set forth in the Biblical record.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Jonah and his values: Jonah 4:1-11
• Jonah failed to match his values with God’s values. • Is your personal vision in line with God’s wants? • You can choose to participate in God’s plan and celebrate his work in the life of your ministry, or you can choose to be like Jonah. • It is up to you.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Leaders who are unaware of their values are very vulnerable • Would you steal? • Why wouldn’t you steal?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Values talk easy but lives hard • Matthew 22:37. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your sole and with all your mind. • That is the prism through which all other values must shine, the filter which all life choices are made and solutions are drawn. Meditate Psalm 103. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Leadership The inner side of greatness: A philosophy for leaders by PETER KOESTENBAUM
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Foundation of leadership •Vision - to think big and new •Reality- to have no illusions •Ethics - to be of service •Courage- to act with sustained initiative
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Vision • Thinking big and new about your ministry • Maintaining a clear image of your distant goals • Having a sense of destiny • Vertical and horizontal thinking
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Reality • Being in touch with the real world, with the facts, with the truth • To be realistic means to think rather than feel; to be objective, not subjective, rational, not irrational • Understand, accept and cope with the realities of your specific ministry • Being in touch with people Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Ethics • People matter to you • Morality, integrity are really important to you • Ethics means that you can be and are interested in seeing the world from another person’s point of view • To understand the depth of a human being Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Courage • Willingness to risk (you cannot live without courage) • Take charge, first of your own life • Act with sustained initiative • To be a self-starter - actionoriented • Willingness to stand alone Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
What followers expect from leaders: • Honesty • Competence • Forward looking • Inspiring
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Seven Values of Servant Leadership (Agapao) • • • •
Humility Concern for others Controlled discipline Seeking what is right and good for the organisation • Showing mercy in beliefs and actions • Focusing on the purpose of the organisation • Creating and sustaining peace Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Humility • Understand that followers may know more about the process and have more insights into what needs to be done • Only the humble can be teachable • Leaders can have the ‘trappings’ of leadership as long as they don’t ‘believe’ in the trappings Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Concern for Others • Provide for the safety, physical, social, self-esteem, selfactualisation needs of the employee • This can be done by paying a living wage and intervening with more support when needed – A living wage provides for the daily living costs for a reasonable life – not poverty and not luxury – but a reasonable life Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Controlled Discipline • Think before you act – Never act out of anger – let the anger subside first, then consider the action
• Act in ways that bring improvement – not retribution – Fear usually suppresses behavior but does not shape real change
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Seeking What Is Right and Good for the Organisation • Leaders lead out of a sense of calling – or ‘vocare’ – not out of a sense of selfaggrandizement or potential rewards – rewards may come – but this is not the focus of the leader
• Leaders seek the greater well-being of the organisation and all those affected by the organisation Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Show Mercy • Mercy seasons justice and considers all the factors • A follower may deserve punishment as a result of his/her actions, but what is the best action overall – what was the reason for the actions in the first place?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Be Focused on the Purpose of the Organisation • Leaders focus attention on improving the organisation and all those in it • Leaders focus on what is good for the organisation and all those affected by it – short-term gain may be ignored for long-term gain Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Create and Sustain Peace • Leaders seek to build organisations that are peaceful • Conflict still occurs but the organisation values the quick resolution of conflict – when everyone in the organisation is focused on the improvement of the organisation resolving conflict also looks at the greater good rather than the self-enrichment Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Servant Leadership • Servant Leaders – Do what is right for the followers – If the organisation does well – good! – If the organisation does not do well, the servant leader still serves the followers
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It is up to you. Make the difference wherever you go
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
To summarise: The first task of a servant leader is to define values 1. Do the right things for the right reasons 2. Pray God’s agenda not your own 3. Relationships will make or break you 4. Prioritize eternal things, not temporal 5. Don’t sweat the small stuff Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
To summarise: The first task of a servant leader is to define values 6. God’s kingdom is paramount; seek it first 7. Judge yourself before judge other 8. If you need something ask, if you have something give it 9. Stay true to your convictions; don’t wander from the narrow path 10. Obedience to God is the only sure foundation for life Matthew 6: 1-7:27 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
Remember: Mind in the beginning what matters in the end. Nico Word: BothaValues Leadership Principles from God’s
Prayer Focus • I am in the world but I am not of the world. • God of peace, I ask you to sanctify me in every way, and may my whole spirit and soul and body kept blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes gain. • God’s love is perfected in me. Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
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: Values
Sing Out SING OUT THE LORD IS NEAR BUILD HIM A TEMPLE HERE A PALACE OF PRAISE A THRONE OF THANKSGIVING MADE FOR THE KING OF KINGS SING OUT A JOYFUL SONG HIS LOVE GOES ON AND ON WHEN PRAISES ABOUND HIS GLORY SURROUNDS US FILLING HIS TEMPLE HERE SING OUT THE LORD IS NEAR THE LORD INHABITS THE SONG OF HIS SAINTS AND LIVES IN THEIR PRAISES 2X WE COME TO WORSHIP TOGETHER AS ONE WITH MUSIC AND SINGING REJOICE IN ALL THAT THE FATHER HAS DONE LET'S LIFT UP AN OFFERING
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
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: Values
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Values
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