1 May 2021
Kingfisher Leadership news Signs of health:
Leadership - growth and health As has often been said, ‘Everything rises and falls on leadership’. Leadership sets the pace, the attitude, the culture of the organisation, group or community. As the Bible puts it:
• We have a con dent expectation of growth, not just a ‘keeping things going’ mentality.
“Without wise leadership, a nation falls; there is safety in having many advisers.” (Proverbs 11:14, NLT) Godly leadership encourages and enables people to focus on the right things and to grow in healthy ways. However, wise leaders recognise that their real focus is not growth, but health. Growth is, in fact, God’s Wise leaders department, whereas health is the recognise responsibility of each one of us, and, principally, the leader whose role it is to that their encourage and enable health in the real focus is community.
• We have an excitement about what God is going to do next among us, rather than a ‘nothing ever changes’ mentality • We have a passion for seeing society impacted and changed for good rather than a ‘what could we possibly do?’ mentality
not growth, but health.
• We care about each other and seek ways to support and encourage each other, rather than an ‘every person for themselves’ mentality
In God’s Kingdom, the end never justi es the means. Nehemiah was engaged in the great talk of rebuilding the wall, but when he discovered that social injustice was rampant, he stopped the work (Nehemiah 5:1-13) because of the more pressing need to address hat was wrong in the community Too great a fear of the personal cost. There is always a cost attached to doing anything worthwhile, and that includes enduring the opposition and leading by example - two things that featured in Nehemiah’s story (see Neh. 4).
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Leaders can make a number of mistakes when it comes to health: Too great a focus on the goal
• We feel able to take risks, both in terms of personally stepping up and trying something new, and in terms of us as a group taking faith steps, rather than than a ‘don’t volunteer for anything’ mentality
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1 May 2021
Too great a fear of the ‘big ask’.
COMING IN JUNE 2021:
Often leaders area afraid to ask people to step up and attempt something great for God on the basis that this will entail sacri ce and will come at a cost to those people. However, a healthy community is inspired to sacri ce for a great cause, and a wise leader is not afraid of calling for that sacri ce - so long as they are leading the way in that, demonstrating that they have suf cient credibility to challenge people with the ‘big ask’. Nehemiah was not afraid of the ‘big ask’ (Neh. 2:16-18), and the people responded in a healthy way.
KINGFISHER FAMILY OF CHURCHES AND MINISTRIES
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER Our world is in desperate need. Jesus Christ is our only hope. Now is the time together to pray
YOUR KINGDOM COME!
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If you are called to lead, then your responsibility is to ensure that there is good health in what you are leading. Growth will come when health is in place, but growth will never be sustained if it is at the expense of health. Looking at the ‘signs of health’ above, would you say that your group, ministry or church is healthy? What needs to change for that to be so?
The Vision: To unite thousands of Christians around the world to pray on one day, for Church, community, nation, and our world.
SUNDAY 13th JUNE 2021
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