Believers need to be leaders
Nov 15, 2009 Discussion Topics
Posted by
Kevin Harper
Leadership is a huge issue for Christians. It’s often said that when you want to get something done, ask the busiest person, and that’s often true. In any organized effort to accomplish something, whether it is moving dirt around, or providing spiritual guidance for a congregation, there will always be leaders and followers. Which are you?
Areas where believers need to be leaders
- In the church (what does that mean?)
- In the assembly (public worship)
- In the home
- With your (future) spouse
- With your (future) kids
- In the workplace
- Co-workers
- Subordinates
- Employers
- Customers/clients
- At school
- Fellow students
- Teachers
No slackers allowed
While there is a place in the Kingdom for visible leaders as well as leaders who are less visible to the public eye, there is no room for slackers. We all are followers at times, but if we never step up as leaders as well, we will become stagnant and won’t grow spiritually. Worse, we will never be able to help someone else grow spiritually.
If we are slackers, our impact on the church will not be neutral – it will be devastating. Here is what a culture of slackers in the church will look like down the road:
- Complacency will set in.
- Another generation of slackers will learn from our example.
- The church will drift and gradually blow away in the wind.
- The church won’t have new public or behind-the-scenes leaders.
- Marriages will fall apart
- Kids won’t have a spiritual relationship with their parents
- Parents won’t have a spiritual relationship with their kids
- Parents won’t even have a spiritual impact on their kids at all
Think about this topic of leadership as it applies to your life.
- How do we go about preparing ourselves to lead in the church, home, workplace, etc?
- Was Moses leadership material? Did he think he was?
- What is leadership style taught in the Bible and how can we imitate it?
- Do we need to be set apart by the church for ministry in order to be a leader in the church?
Verse to check out
- Romans 12:4-8
- Ephesians 5:21-33
Tags: Leadership
November 16th, 2009 at 9:51 am
There is one more devestating result of no leadership in the local church body and that is it will no longer exist.
Leadership is vital for both men and women in the church but especially for men. There’s a continuing trend that must be broken and that is of letting women take the lead role in the church body. If we look at the average church, women are running most of the ministries. Is this Biblical? No it’s not. Men are mandated in Scripture to take the lead. What has happened? And how can we turn this trend around? Let me hear from you.
In Christ, Pastor John
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 am
I think the key is to reinforce the value of guys stepping up to the plate to lead. Leadership is a character trait that is very much in demand by the world as well as the church, but you wouldn’t know it from what we hear in the mainstream media. If we were to believe the pop culture, men are worthless idiots who are not good for much.