Leadership

What is your view of Leadership?  For the Christian, we view leadership based on the gift or gifts that the Lord has given us to use here on earth.  Some have the gift of "helps" so they lead out in that direction.  Another may have the gift of teaching and so they lead in the area of teaching and the discipleship of other Christian men and women.  And as such, the Christian is consistent in his encouragement and action by the leadership of the Holy Spirit to work and mobilize others in an ongoing movement to help fulfill the Great Commission. 

Very simple.  If you have the gift of "evangelism" you will most likely lead out in instructing other the skill of sharing Christ with others along with your own witnessing skills being used everyday.  When we go out for dinner I like to ask our server, "if you die before you get home tonight, do you know you are going to heaven?"  You can imagine how "good" and sometimes how "bad" questions like that can be.  Nobody has ever hit me, though! 

But seriously.  Think about your leadership role.  If you don't ask that question, who's to say anyone in this world will every get the opportunity to ask that person?  Try praying on your knees on a cold chemotherapy room floor with shorts on.  Sometimes those witnessing experiences get rather long (sore knees...ha ha).

Look at Mark 12: 42-44 where it says, "...Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury; for they all put in our of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, and she had to live on."   Boy, I guess this poor widow "lead" all the others right into shame.

Read some of these scriptures:  Luke 6:12, 13; Phil. 3:17; 1 Thess. 2:8-12; 1 Tim. 2:2; 1 Pet. 5:2,3.

Until tomorrow,

Dave