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1. leaders under introduction GRACE

2. Matthew 8:8-13 • Only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. • For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." • When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, "Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! • And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. • But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." • Then Jesus said to the centurion , "Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you." And his servant was healed that same hour.

3. The Centurion • Not a religious man or Pharisee; but a man who sought Jesus. • Respectful regard for Jesus; and loving regard for his servant. • A man of position and stature; and a man of humility • A man under authority; and a man with authority • A man who was a Gentile; and a model for Israel • A leader with legal rights & privilege who chose to be under grace

4. and his servant was healed ! He understood authority from over and under; and the power of faith in Jesus and His authoritative Word, and results happened!

5. Leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less. John Maxwell

6. Leadership is influence, the ability of one person to influence others Oswald Sanders Spiritual Leadership

7. The central task of leadership is influencing God’s people toward God’s purposes. Robert Clinton The Making of a Leader

8. Spiritual leadership is movingpeople on to God’s agenda. Henry & Richard Blackaby Spiritual Leadership

9. LO R D E M P OW E R M E N T A L I G N M E N T D I R E C T I O N A L E F F E C T U A L R E L A T I O N A L SE R V A NT H O O D

10. Leadership is a Relationship as a husband is to a wife as a parent is to a child as a friend is to a friend as an employer is to an employee a leader is to a follower

11. Origins of Leadership – Jethro/MosesExodus 18:17-23 • The thing that you do is not good. • Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too much for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself. • Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: Stand before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God. • And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do. • Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. • And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you. • If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.

12. Origins of Leadership – God/manGenesis 1:26-28 • Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." • So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. • Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

13. Origins of Leadership – Jesus/ChurchEphesians 5:22-26;32 • Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. • For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. • Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. • Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her. • This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

14. But I’m Not A Leader ! ? ! Employment Entrepreneur Volunteer Church School Family Self/Personal

15. But I’m Not A Leader ! ? ! Employment Entrepreneur Volunteer Church School Family Self/Personal

16. Personal (Self) Leadership1 Timothy 3:1-5 • This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. • A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; • not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; • one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence • or if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

17. Personal (Self) LeadershipPsalms 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him.

18. Personal (Self) Leadership1 Corinthians 9:27 I discipline my body and bring it into subjection

19. Personal (Self) LeadershipRomans 6:12-14 • Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. • And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. • For sin shall not have dominionover you, for you are not under law but under grace.

20. Matthew 15:14 Jesus calls religious leaders… “blind leaders of the blind.” “And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

21. The Leadership Equation GOD (LEADER) Follower/Leader Follower(s)/Leader(s)