LEADERSHIP MODALITIES AND LEADERSHIP BENT Leaders must make
LEADERSHIP MODALITIES AND LEADERSHIP BENT
“Leaders, must make decisions about life and ministry which flow from their understanding of who God has made them to be and for what God is shaping them. These decisions will lead them to effective purposeful lives, which in retrospect will be seen to have been focused lives. But it is not a self-seeking individualistic choice of life but a seeking of what a SOVEREIGN GOD is doing – His purposes. All of the focused life thinking must be done in light of a strong understanding of the Sovereignty of God. ” (J. Robert Clinton, Strategic Concepts that Clarify a Focused Life, p. 1)
MY QUESTION BECAME: “Instead of just managing my time and schedule, how do I also manage my energy and passion? ”
THREE CRUCIAL LEADERSHIP MODALITIES IN KINGDOM MINISTRY VISION Good at receiving and communicating Biblical Kingdom objectives RELATIONSHIP Good at meaningfully relating and nurturing people in Christian fellowship VISION RELATIONSHIP EXECUTION Good at responding to vision in obedience to Jesus and mobilizing others to do the same
WHAT IS LEADERSHIP BENT? Leadership Bent is a person’s leadership modality and VRE mix where they effectively lead without quickly exhausting themselves or those that they lead. (Effective use of energy. )
ATTRIBUTES / VRE MIX VISION/ RELATIONSHIP Features This leader thinks most about the future potential of a Kingdom community and what God desires for it. They’re able to cast vision inspiring others to want the same. People feel ownership over the mission after being with this leader. EXECUTION/ VISION RELATIONSHIP/ EXECUTION This leader thinks most about how to solve the about seeing individuals problems that hinder contribute and grow Kingdom growth. They according to their gifts. understand the big picture They invest in the potential and enjoy strategizing how of individuals and groups to get from here to there. through coaching. People We have processes and feel mentored and institutions because of personally led by these leaders.
ATTRIBUTES / VRE MIX People’s Positive Perception People’s Negative Perception VISION/ RELATIONSHIP EXECUTION/ VISION RELATIONSHIP/ EXECUTION “You’re a good leader because I feel cared for because I feel inspired to because I feel that a lot of and you directly impact my think about the future. ” things are getting done and personal growth. ” we’re growing. ” “You’re a bad leader because I feel like you talk because I feel like all you about doing great things, want is growth and you but they never get done. ” don’t care about people. ” “You’re a bad leader because I feel like we’re always doing the same things and nothing changes. ”
ATTRIBUTES / VRE MIX VISION/ RELATIONSHIP EXECUTION/ VISION RELATIONSHIP/ EXECUTION People’s Positive Emotion Excitement Prepared Included People’s Negative Emotion Stuck Lonely Burned out
ATTRIBUTES / VRE MIX Point of Frustration Pair Them With VISION/ RELATIONSHIP EXECUTION/ VISION Can’t find a way to unlock Can’t find the right people’s potential to get things done EXECUTION VISION RELATIONSHIP EXECUTION RELATIONSHIP/ EXECUTION Can’t motivate people to innovate and create VISION RELATIONSHIP
MY LEADERSHIP BENT VISION RELATIONSHIP EXECUTION 1. What Leadership Bent do I tend to most? How can I become more effective here? 2. What Leadership Bent do I tend to least? How can I improve and find help here? 3. What are hindrances that are keeping me from growth? (attitude, fear, lack of resources & coaching, etc…)
SPIRITUAL DEPRESSION
1 KINGS 19: 1 -9 19 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow. ” 3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers. ”
1 KINGS 19: 1 -9 5 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat. ” 6 And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you. ” 8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
1 KINGS 19: 1 -9 9 There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah? ”
Often, God doesn’t ask a question to get information. He asks a question to give information.
“What are you doing here? ”
Don’t give into your discouragement, but pay attention to it. God may be asking you a very profound question.
PRAYING THROUGH WHAT CHARLES SPURGEON CALLED THE MINISTERS FAINTING FITS
1. “Is it not first that they are men? ”
2. “Moreover, most of us are in some way or other unsound physically. ”
3. “Our work, when earnestly undertaken, lays us open to attacks in the direction of depression. ”
4. “Our position in the church will also conduce to this. ”
5. “There can be little doubt that sedentary habits have a tendency to create despondency in some constitutions. ”
6. “Before any great achievement, some measure of the same depression is very usual. ”
7. “In the midst of a long stretch of unbroken labour, the same affliction may be looked for. ”
8. “One crushing stroke has sometimes laid the minister very low. ”
9. “When troubles multiply, and discouragements follow each other in long succession”
10. “This evil will also come upon us, we know not why”
“Be not dismayed by soul-trouble” Some Recommended Books: • • Ordering Your Private World by Gordon Mac. Donald The Emotionally Healthy Leader by Peter Scazerro Unmasking Male Depression by Archibald Hart Anything by Ed Welch
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