Why Church Matters: Learn to Lead
“VOTE FOR SO AND SO WHOSE A PROVEN LEADER”
What does that even mean? Whether it’s the news, work school or family leadership effects every realm of life. Leaders can make our lives positive and easier or miserable and harder.
Why church matters? A healthy church can become a community where you and your family can learn to lead. What is a proven leader in Gods eyes? Could the perfect son of God and Lord of Lords know what being a transforming leader needs to be? We almost never see that possibility because all our ideas and examples of so called effective leaders come from the unbelieving culture not Jesus. Throughout the history of Christianity we have imitated the world’s leaders. We have acted as and followed tyrants, kings, generals, rock stars and CEOs.
Almost every sad and shameful chapter in the history of the church was led by well-intended but worldly modeled leaders. A few times the disciples of Jesus learned and led the way he taught and lived. Those have been the high points in history and in any church. The temptation and tendency to get our models of leadership from the culture go back to the start. Jesus’s prohibition to doing so also goes back to the start.
Please read this passage and consider the questions as you prepare to come Sunday.
Blessings,
Joe
Small Group Questions:
- HOW MUCH IS SELF PROMOTION A PART OF OUR CULTURES IDEAS ABOUT LEADERS?
- WHAT DOES JESUS TEACH ABOUT PROMOTING YOURSELF TO GAIN INFLUENCE OUR POWER?
Mat 20:20-21; Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him. And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She *said to Him, “Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left.
Mat 23:11-12; “But the greatest among you shall be your servant. “Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted
- HOW WOULD YOU BE DIFFERENT IF YOU LEARNED A ND LIVED JESUS’S WAY OF LEADING?
Mark 10:42; Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles dominate them and their men of high positions exercise power over them. It is not this way among you
Mat 20:25-28; But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
- WHAT ACTIONS AND ATTITUDE DO GREAT LEADERS THAT ARE FOLLOWING CHRIST SHOW?
- WHO IN OUR CULTURE ARE CONSIDERED IMPRESSIVE LEADERS?
- DO THEY LEAD LIKE THE “RULERS OF THE GENTILES OR CHRIST?
- WHAT WOULD WILLINGLY TAKING THE SERVANTS PLACE LOOK LIKE IN YOUR WORK HOME OR RELATIONSHIPS?
Luke 9:23-24; And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.”
