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Endorsements
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The Measure of a Christian Leader by brother C. V. John is

a meticulously written manual which I would recommend to all
seminarians desiring to become exemplary leaders in the ministry. This
book is classic exposition of the subject and it will be a tremendous
asset to the libraries of every theological institutions. The lectures
Dr. C.V. John gave in our Seminary kept the seminarians spell-bound,
with his experiences as a Christian leader for four decades. I could not
lay down the book once I started it. The reader will be better equipped
by following the principles of leadership depicted in this book of
deep insights on different topics. While this will be a priceless volume
globally, the contents are uniquely portrayed in the south Asian context.
Dr. Joseph Athyalil
President
Tabernacle Baptist Bible College
& Theological Seminary, Bangalore
My dear friend and colleague, Brother C.V. John, is uniquely
qualified to share insight on the subject of biblical leadership in a
developing world context. He comes from, and continues, a long family
heritage of men steeped in deep knowledge and love of the Scriptures.
He allies that with a deep knowledge and love of men and women who
are called to leadership and produces a book, that will be a welcome
addition not only to the libraries of those who lead but, perhaps more
importantly, to the podiums of those called to train the next generation
of leaders.
Jack Nelson
President
Worldlink International.
The book is wellwritten, By well-written, I mean that the subject

divisions, the way each division is explained, and the way it is supported
biblically are all done to a high degree of perfection. What is more,
his years of experience in leadership plus Bible exposition show clearly
through his writings.
I am confident that every person who reads this book will
be touched deeply. I am also confident that the book will have a
transforming impact upon that person.
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Dr. Johnson C. Philip

Chancellor: Scofield Graduate School of Theology
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The Measure of a Christian Leader

by Dr. C.V. John
Copyright 2015 by Dr. C.V. John
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Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Foreword 15
Preface 17
The Background
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Introduction 23
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2. LEADERSHIP EXPLAINED
2.1 Meaning of Leadership
2.2 Influence of Leadership
2.3 Essentials of Leadership
2.4 Motivation of Leadership
2.5 Leadership Is Logical and Rational
2.6 Leadership Characteristics
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1. LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES
1.1 Business Worlds Principles of Leadership
1.2 Biblical Principles of Leadership
1.3 Leadership Principles Practices of Jesus
1.4 Leadership Principles and Practices of Apostle Paul
1.5 Leadership Principles and Practices of Corporate World
3. TYPES, KINDS, CONCEPTS, AUTHORITY OF

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3.1 Two Types of Leadership
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3.2 Three Kinds of Leadership
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3.3 Concepts of Leadership
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3.4 The Attitude of a Christian Leader
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3.5 Leadership and Authority
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3.6 The Functions of Leadership
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4. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

4.1 Definitions
4.2 Leadership
4.3 What Makes the Difference in Good Leadership?
4.4 Two Orientations: Leaders and Managers
4.5 Unified Functions of Leadership and Management
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5. PROFILE OF A LEADER
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5.1 Gift of Leadership
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5.2 Vision of an Exemplary Leader
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5.3 Five Practices of an Exemplary Leader
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5.4 Seven Factors in Shifting the Vision
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5.5 Quality of a Leader
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5.6 Faces of Leadership
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5.7 Empowerment of Leaders
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5.8 Methods of LeadersHow Should the Leaders Lead? 105
5.9 Factors That Make a Leader
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6. BIBLICAL LEADERS
6.1 Noah
6.2 Abraham
6.3 Moses
6.4 Nehemiah
6.5 Paul
6.6 Barnabas
6.7 Jesus Christ
6.8 Jesus, the CEOthe Servant Style
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7. THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP

7.1 Planning
7.2 Translate Goals into Action
7.3 Characteristics of Planning
7.4 Decisionmaking
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7.5 Delegating
7.6 Co-ordinating
7.7 Leadership Self-evaluation
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9. THE LEADER AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

9.1 Commandments
9.2 Types of Working Relationships Illustrated
9.3 Types of Working Relationships Explained
9.4 The Leader and Relationship Problems
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10. ERRORS IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP

10.1 Jacob
10.2 Moses
10.3 Balaam
10.4 Haman
10.5 King Saul
10.6 David
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11. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF TIME

11.1 Value of Time
11.2 Benefits of Time Management
11.3 Scheduling of Time
11.4 Prioritizing
11.5 Stop Procrastination
11.6 Learn to Say No
11.7 Take Time Off
11.8 How to Schedule Your Time
11.9 Assessment of Priorities
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8. LEADERSHIP AND GROUP DYNAMICS

8.1 Purpose of Groups in Organizations
8.2 Strengths Compensate the Weakness
8.3 Functions of Groups in Organizations
8.4 Negative and Positive Roles
12. LEADERSHIP AND FINANCE

12.1 Our Attitude to Money
12.2 Money, Ministry and the Leader
12.3 Handling FinanceFaithfully and Prudently
12.4 Accounting
12.5 Auditing
12.6 Budgeting
12.7 Budgetary Control
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13. ROLE OF COMMUNICATION IN LEADERSHIP

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13.1 Meaning of Communication
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13.2 Communication Essentials
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13.3 Causes of Communication Failure
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13.4 Two Important Communication Processes
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13.5 Models of Communication
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13.6 Listening
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13.7 Communication in Christian Organizations
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13.8 What Does the Bible Teach About Communication? 227
14. RAISING SUCCESSOR LEADERS
14.1 Raising Future Leaders
14.2 Match Task and Talents
14.3 What I Look for in a Leader
14.4 Cautions When Raising Leaders
14.5 Building Healthy Leaders
14.6 Three Stages in Godly Leadership
14.7 The Concept of Christian Service
14.8 Christian Service Style
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15. SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP

15.1 Christian Organizations
15.2 Applying Different Strokes for Different People
15.3 Partnering
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15.4 Leadership Styles

15.5 Performance of People, Delegating
15.6 Key to Being a Situational Leader
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17. SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP

17.1 Jesus Knew His Assignment
17.2 Jesus Knew His Product
17.3 Jesus Was Transparent
17.4 Jesus Knew the People
17.5 Jesus Had Goals and Plans
17.6 Jesus Had Passion for Mission
17.7 Jesus Motivated People
17.8 Jesus Delegated
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18. YOUTH LEADERSHIP TODAY

18.1 Christian Youth and Social Problems
18.2 Christian Youth and the Problem of Change
18.3 The Generation Gap
18.4 The Profile of a Youth Leader
18.5 Powers of a Youth LeaderRecognize Your Official
Power and Expertise
18.6 The Attitude of a Youth Leader
18.7 Qualities of a Godly Youth leader
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16. ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP

16.1 Paul, His Calling
16.2 Paul, Entrepreneurial Venture
16.3 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Brave Heart
16.4 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Motivator
16.5 Paul, an Accountable Entrepreneurial Leader
16.6 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Leader in Sharing and
Communicating the Vision
16.7 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Leader with a Personal
Mission Statement
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Conclusion: Leaders Be Warned
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Books of References
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19. PREACHERLEADER
19.1 Specific Reference to Leaders in the Bible
19.2 Definitions
19.3 Power of Words in Preaching/Leading
19.4 Leadership Gifts
19.5 Jesus, the Transformational Leader
19.6 What Leadership Is Not
19.7 Examples of Preaching / Leading in the
New Testament
19.8 Gods Word and Preaching / Leading
19.9 PreacherLeader Communicators
19.10 Usefulness of Gods Word
19.11 Prophetic Relationship of PreacherLeaders
19.12 No Leadership without Preaching
19.13 No Preaching without Leadership
19.14 The Art of Making a PreacherLeader
19.15 Identifying Types and Kinds of PreacherLeader
19.16 The Four Primary Leadership Aptitudes
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Over the years, I have heard many Christian leaders, in India and
abroad, who wanted to pass on to the next generation of missionaries
and pastoral trainees the leadership lessons they had only learned in
the field. Therefore, this is a collective work in many ways, and it is
presented with due recognition and honor to the genuine authors with
the hope of fulfillling their wish to help equip new leaders for Christ.
My thanks are due to many of those Christian leaders who gladly
contributed their expertise achieved from long years of service in
mission fields and missionary organizations.
The varied matters dealt within this book have references to
many sources, including books, journals, business concerns, Christian
NGOs, Christian leaders, heads of Christians institutions and to all of
these and more I thankfully acknowledge my indebtedness for ideas
and information they have provided.
I am grateful to several publishers and authors for supplying
materials for this book bearing their names, to my friends both in India
and abroad for valuable help and guidance.
Thanks to all individuals who challenged me and encouraged me
to write this book. Special thanks to Dr. Joseph Athiyalil who
gave me the opportunity to teach this subject to the post graduate
class of Tabernacle Baptist Bible College and Seminary in
Bangalore.
Thanks to my dear wife and daughtersThanks to my dear wife
Lali, and daughtersEllis Grace John & Priscilla John Kingfor
tolerating my long absences because of the ministry.
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Thanks to my daughter Grace for reading the manuscript and

making corrections.
Thanks to Mr. Nelson Doungel and Ms. K.Lalhlupuii for typing
most of the pages of this book.
Thank you J.G.Paul, my companion in ministry for 3 decades,

for helping me during the years 20052008 by collecting
materials, drawing the charts, diagrams and tables for the book
and making it worthy as a textbook for Bible colleges, institutions
and leadership conferences/ seminars.
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Thanks to Mr. Arogyaswamy and Mr. Kiran Kumar for editing

the manuscript.
Hearty thanks to Dr. Forrester Paton, Bro. Augustine Salins,
Bro. Bhakt Singh, Evan. C.V. George, and Dr. Gene Williams
who are the unforgettable mentors of my life and ministry.
Heartfelt thanks to Mr. Randolph Forester King, my son-in-law ,
for making the final corrections and presentable for printing.
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DEDICATION
TO
DR. HARRY JEFFCOAT, JR.
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This book is dedicated to the fond memory of my partner in Global

Mission, Dr. Harry Jeffcoat, Jr., Birmingham, Alabama, USAAn
engineer by trade but a missionary in practice.
Who showed me the principles of Christian leadership by
his humility and servanthood.
Who traveled with me for three decades to many nations,
preaching the good news and training leaders.
Who strengthened my hands to the establishment of a
National Missionary Organization known as the New Life
Ministries, India.
Who stood steadfast with me to establish Bible colleges,
orphanages and churches till the very end of his life.
Having fought a good fight, kept his faith and finished his course, he
went ahead to our heavenly home in 2013, and now cheers me up
from amongst a cloud of witnesses, while waiting patiently for me to
join him.
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FOREWORD
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It is a privilege and honor to write the Foreword for this wonderful book on
Christian leadership. A lot is written on this subject mostly from a Western
perspective. Since leadership is very much subjective to the culture, it is
important that Christians from various cultures should write keeping the
Scripture as the guiding light. Dr. C. V. John has more than forty years
of experience as a Christian leader and experienced successes and failures
and he is the right person to write about Christian leadership from the
Indian cultural perspective. I really appreciate these time tested principles
on leadership, which will help magnificently the young and upcoming
leaders who passes through the portals of the Bible colleges and seminaries.
I believe this book is of immense value to these men and women of God.
The experiences of Dr. C.V. John are vast and wide. He was brought
up in a Christian home and dedicated his life for Christian service very
early in life. After theological education he was involved in itinerant
preaching and experienced great success. He married cross culturally and
settled in Northeastern India. He started childrens homes, Bible colleges,
pioneer mission movements and evangelistic organizations. He oversaw
all these different types of ministries and gained considerable experiences.
Though he suffered some setbacks, the Lord lifted him to higher grounds
for greater ministry. The lessons he learned from these experiences are
enumerated at length in the pages of this well-written book.
The style is simple and readable. Once you start this book, you
definitely will finish reading it. I highly recommend this book for all Bible
students throughout India and abroad.
In his blessed service,
Dr. Joy George
President, Asian Christian Academy
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This book is published for:
Leaders of congregations, denominations, parachurch

organizations, church departments to serve faithfully, effectively
with innovative ideas.
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Leaders of educational institutions, leadership training programs,

theological seminaries/colleges/institutes to coach their trainees for
a Christ-centered leadership.
Christian ministers to follow after excellence in the ministry.
Christian individuals, businessmen, secular organizations which
desire to connect with Christian organizations for receiving
coaching in leadership.
Community Christian leaders who seek transformation in the
community.
Managers, directors, consultants to increase their knowledge
concerning Christian leadership so as to coach others.
Every congregational member to increase their potential in the
ministry.
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PREFACE
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This book is written mainly for students, preparing either for ministry
leadership or for appointments in the administration of Christian
organizations, but it also fulfills as a source book for leadership
education in theological seminaries, Bible colleges and other Christian
institutions.
Subject matter has been grouped and arranged under headings
and sub-headings for easy reference. This will increase the usefulness of
the book as a guide to what is generally known and accepted today as
sound practices of Christian leadership.
It includes a selection of charts and diagrams to illustrate key
principles of leadership and management. I believe a deliberate study
of this work, paired with hands-on application through leadership in
the field, is the best course to help young leaders grow.
C. V. John
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THE BACKGROUND
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In 1963, at the end of four years of theological training in a reputed

Indian Bible seminary, I graduated with distinction and prepared to
go into the mission field for planting and pastoring the church of
God. During my training very little was mentioned on the subjects of
leadership and management.
For ten years I served the Lord as an itinerant evangelist. People
management and administration were not required for an evangelist.
For few years the Lord gave me the blessed opportunity to serve him
under the Ambassadors for Christ India (AFCI). During those years I
was blessed, inspired and challenged by its founderdirector Augustine
Salins who was well known among Indian Christians as the weeping
prophet of India. I was impressed by the manner in which he bound
together a team of preachers and led them to greater heights of spiritual
battles and victories. Under his Godly leadership, I had tremendous
opportunities to preach the gospel in many Indian cities, especially in
the North East. Revival in the Church and Evangelism through the
Church was the main motto of AFCI.
The secrets of Godly leadership I learned from Mr. Salins were
humility, love, a servant heart and tears. I learnt an important lesson,
leading through loving and leading through serving. The Lord
used this lesson to give me a clear vision to start a national ministry
organization, New Life Ministries (NLM), a national ministry. Thus
at the age of 37 the challenge of leadership fell upon me. But in my
great zeal and with the assurance of Gods call, I did venture into this
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tremendous task. As I look back to the errors I committed as a leader, I

do regret that I did not get any serious training on leadership.
My first exposure to fine-quality leadership training was in
Singapore when I sat under the teaching of the world renowned
Christian leader John Haggai. After that training, things became
slightly easier and smoother in the management of the mission to
which God had called me.
From that time I invested time in reading books on leadership,
both secular and spiritual. I interacted with great leaders with an
insatiable desire to learn more and develop my leadership qualities.
While in North America, the Lord gave me a rare opportunity to attend
a three-day seminar on spiritual leadership taught by Dr. Malcolm
Weber, one of the most famous writers in biblical leadership.
This exposure to great leaders and their thoughts helped me
immensely to co-found an international ministry organization in 1992Advancing Native Missions (ANM) based in USA. During my time in
ANM, the Lord led me to co-found and direct Operation Barnabas
International leading teams of preachers and teachers to various
countries of the world. I am basically a gospel preacher. However,
for the promotion of the gospel and planting of churches, projects of
different nature are a necessity. In 1980 the Lord gave me the vision to
start orphanages in India known as Gilgal Children Homes. In 1989
God used me to start the Trivandrum Bible College (TBC) to train
and send pioneer missionaries , church planters and preachers across
India and to the regions beyond.
I am very much content with the calling I received from the Lord,
the preaching ministry for more than four decades and the projects he
led me to start and operate. However, I regret the mistakes I committed
as a leader. You will read about those failures in the pages of this book.
There has been a mushrooming of Bible colleges in India.
Hundreds of young men and women complete their studies and go
out to serve the Lord and His Church. But sadly most go out into the
mission field without the basic knowledge of Godly leadership. It is
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very much encouraging to note that several missionary institutes and

Bible colleges have started to include this subject in their curriculum,
especially in the past 15 years.
Trivandrum Bible College is a Theological institution in South
India. It is accredited with Asia Theological Association (ATA) and it
has a national stature. Though it was founded in 1989, only in 2005
did it introduce and include leadership as a subject in its curriculum.
When I observed the helplessness of the graduates in handling church
problems and management of people, I strongly felt that training in
leadership should be a basic requirement in every Bible College.
This book is the outcome of my research and lectures I gave that
year to the staff, faculty and students of Trivandrum Bible College.
Since then I have continued to read extensively on the subject and
I have met many leaders, discussed and learnt as ears passed by. I
must confess that nothing can be called original idea of the writer.
At the same time I am too often unable to remember the source and
acknowledge them by name. What I present in this book are principles
of leadership deeply implanted in me that I have applied to my life
and ministry for many years.
At the end of this book, I have listed some of the books I have referred
and read in the years past. My beloved father, the late C.V.George
was a well- known Evangelist, Church Planter, Bible College professor
and prolific writer. As a reputed leader among the Brethren assemblies
and Baptist Churches, my dad had the most influence in making me
a leader. Brother Bakht Singh, was instrumental in persuading me to
obey Gods call and step into full time service of my Master. In spite
of my lack of education in leadership in my early days of ministry, the
example of faith and courage I found in this man of God inspired me
to press forward against all odds. I was blessed by the living examples
of great leaders referred above and many more. I am thankful to each of
them. God knows all of them, though I may forget to mention them.
Finally, I do thank my God who chose me and separated me
for the glorious service in the expansion of his kingdom on earth. In
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his unfailing grace, the Lord had enabled me to write this book on
Christian leadership.
With all humility I do place this book before you, praying that its
pages will be educational, inspirational and challenge you to strive for
excellence in your leadership.
INTRODUCTION
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In this modern world we are acquainted and associated with group

action. Everyone of us lives and moves in a chain of group efforts,
such as institutions, government departments, political parties, clubs,
banks, worship groups, church departments, missionary movements,
etc. These groups are growing larger in sizegrowing by divisions, by
complex functionary duties, by number, by geographical branches,
etc. These facts separate an individual from personal connections. The
relationship becomes cold, impersonal and dull. There is no feeling for
group activity, no solidarity, no friendliness and no devotion by its
nature. It separates a person from its central purpose.
When churches, Christian organizations, missionary movements
and Christian institutions increase sizably, their functions grow
elaborate. When their interest in special fields increase, they get cut off
from the vision and they gradually lose their concern for the whole. It
takes the efforts of one person, a competent leader to keep the group
committed to that unity of vision. For effective Christian ministry,
good leadership is required to avoid manipulation, inefficiency and
wasting resources.
Churches and organizations are living bodies that must grow
new muscles to meet the challenges of this new era. This is true with
Christian leaders too who with a vision and call lead the group, learning
much about skills, functions and style of leadership. Therefore there is
no single role for a leader, but rather a complex of many different roles.
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The effectiveness of a leader today depends on his/her flexibility to

respond appropriately to varying situations and diverse people. Rigidity
is a great weakness found in many Christian leaders.
Innovative leaders make things happen. They encourage, enable,
influence and motivate others in the church or organization they work
with, to become doers and movers as well.
This book is written , mainly in the Indian context to encourage
leaders to raise up leaders. It is intended for professors and students in
class rooms of Bible Colleges and Seminaries.
Much of the contents are meant for scriptural, spiritual leadership
and management in the local church. However, a lot of material is
applicable for administration and management of Christian and
secular organizations.
Chapter 1
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LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES
Biblical principles of leadership are different from the leadership

principles of the corporate world. The leadership style of Jesus Christ
is unlike the pattern of political and commercial world. If the secular
institutions would pattern after the teachings and practices of our CEO
Jesus Christ, they would do a far better job.
In the past few years I have read several book on leadership
written by people who are from non-Christian backgrounds. While
claiming originality of the ideas they published, I could clearly come
to the conclusion that those ideas were preached and practiced by Jesus
Christ, the greatest leader and recorded in the Holy Bible, 2000 years
ago. The books written by these people contain a fusion of worlds
principles and Bible principles.
At the same time, Christian churches and Christian organizations
have also started a hybrid of biblical principles and business world
principles in the administration and management of Christian
churches, organizations as if the biblical pattern alone cannot work
well in the secular world.
In this chapter it is my intention to bring out the basic principles of
both the ideasJesus style and Worlds styleand emphatically state
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that the model defined by Jesus is adequate for secular organizations

and Christian institutions. There is no need to add anything more to it.
1.1 Business Worlds Principles of Leadership:
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The worldly management pattern gives emphasis on education, training,

talents, gifts, dynamism, drive, aggressiveness and the assertiveness of
the leader. There is often a drive and yearning for dignified titles and
popularity. Success is the motto and goal of this style of leadership.
Knocking down others and forcing forward in the ladder of promotion
is the thirst of the business world. Competition to outshine others is the
craving in worldly leadership. Promoters of this pattern would advise,
You must be able to push yourself to get things done by yourself,
you must have the self-confidence, you must know that you are the
master of yourself, you can achieve any goal that you place before you.
Seniority and abilities are often considered for the promotion in the
firm, rather than the traits of humbleness, gentleness, generosity and
compassion. The leadership style creates lots of competition, arrogance,
pride, hatred, deceit and it hurt too many.
1.2 Biblical Principles of Leadership
In 2 Timothy 3:16, Apostle Paul, All Scripture is given by inspiration of

God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped
for every good work. Everything you need to become an effective leader
is in the Bible. You may not see these principles often and so easily,
but they are all there in the Scriptures as Paul says, that the man of
God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. This means
all the qualities that are required to be an effective leader is in the
Bible. This includes all the characteristics that are needed to mentor
the disciples and take them to the level of leadership. Faithfulness is
what the Lord expects from a leader. Such a person may not always be
known as successful in the evaluation of the world. The world measures
success of a leader in terms of power over people, amount of wealth and
popularity. But the Scripture evaluates a leader in terms faithfulness.
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Jesus the CEO has clearly stated his model of leadership in

Matthew 20:2528. You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over
them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall
not be so among you, but whosoever desires to become great among you, let
him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him
be so your slavejust as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to
serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. The model of leadership
according to Jesus Christ is Serving others. Leaders Serve can be
the anecdote derived from these verses.
The Pharisees sought and fought for front seats, prominent
positions and exalted titles. Jesus rebuked that kind of leadership style.
Read Matthew 23:510. But all their works they do to be seen in by
men. They mark their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their
garments. They love the best places at feasts, the best in the synagogues,
greetings in the marketplaces and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But
you do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you
are all brethren... Do not be called teachers, for One is your Teacher, the
Christ.
Please note the cautions Jesus warned us in the matter of leaders
and followers: - (i) Do not perform works for desiring public view.
(ii) Avoid special vestments and head turbans to show your special
position. (iii) Do not seek special seats in public places. (iv) Do not
accept exalted titles to show your elevated positions. Though there
could be different levels and chain of command in the organization,
the Lord prohibits the above four things in the church administration,
because all the believers are brothers and sisters in Christ enjoying
equality in the body of Christ.
Matthew 23:11 &12 come as an awe-inspiring counsel from Jesus
Christ in matters of true leadership. He said, But he who is greatest
among you shall be your servant. And whoever exalts himself will be
humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
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1.3 Leadership Principles Practices of Jesus
(1) He loved them to the end (John 13:1)Leading

through loving.
(2) Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve.
(Matt. 20:25)Leading through serving.
(3) He gave his life a ransom for many (Matt. 20:28)
Leading through sacrifice.
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Jesus humbled himself and washed the feet of his followers

(John 13:110). After the feet washing Jesus said in verse 15, For I
have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you. Jesus
was the leader. But he respected his disciples and served them. This
is magnificent example to all leaders to follow. A leader that follows
this ideal will have no shortage of followers. Such leaders will get
wholehearted service from the subordinates. More volumes of works
will be performed than the leader expects. This model is ideal to be
followed by the business world as well as the Christian churches.
Let me give added emphasis to this important point by quoting
the inspiring words of Jesus from Matthew 4: 19, Follow me and I
will make you fishers of men. On lessons of leadership this counsel of
Jesus can imply, follow my example and you will be able to win many
followers. Apostle Peter has also challenged us that Jesus Christ has
gone before is, leaving an example, that you should follow his steps.
This includes the area of serving as an exemplary leader by discipline
others in love, humility and service.
When the world focus on Gifts of a leader, the Bible give
emphasis on the Grace a good leader should inhibit. In Galatians 5:22
& 23 we read of the Grace qualities which is the fruit of the Spirit.
Paul writes, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there
is no law. Leader should be mature to lead. Love is the measurement
of maturity. True love is manifested by the 8 other characteristics listed
by Paul in the above verse. There is no law above this for effectiveness
and success.
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Commercial establishments may say the expression of such

gentleness will loosen the grip of a leader upon the employees. Not
at all! On the contrary the grip will become stronger by love and
gentleness.
1.4 Leadership Principles

Apostle Paul
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Paul was the leader of the church in Ephesus for three years. When he
was about to leave them, they began to weep because of their sadness at
his departure (Acts20: 37, 38). What was the reason? Read the whole
chapter but with special attention to verse 19 where Paul testifies that
he was serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears . In
contrast to this, we often see people rejoice in companies and churches
when their leader leaves.
In political and commercial world, one technique to hold on
leadership is the assertiveness, persuasive oratory and enforcement of
ideas with iron hand. But the biblical exhortation is, Speak the truth
in love (Eph. 4:15). James the apostle advised us in James chapter 3;
has given a specific admonition about the right use of tongue for good
leadership. My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing
that we shall receive a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many things.
If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle
the whole body (vv 1,2). The simple meaning is do not seek positions
of leadership if you cannot control your tongue.
Maturity of a man is measured by the use of his tongue. It is the
barometer of spirituality and biblical leadership. In James chapter 3,
James pictures the tongue elaborately. The misuse of tongue is like
a poison, like a wild beast and a wild fire. The tongue can destroy
relationships and the cause for which the leader is appointed. The right
use of tongue can be a delight like the good water out of the fountain
and the good fruit from the tree. How sad when we see churches
divided and even disintegrate when some leaders unwisely employ the
small tongue. No human can tame the tongue by his own ability. The
leader should bring his tongue under the control of the Holy Spirit.
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It is unfortunate to see in several Christian churches and Christian

associations. Gifts are given more importance than the Grace
qualities. Even the churches consider talents and abilities much more
than gentleness, humility, compassion, tenderness and love. This is
because the Christendom tends to follow the measuring standard of the
world for leadership. A gift without grace corrupts. Employing the gifts
with grace will bring pleasure and delight to others. This is the sector
for winsome leadership according to Paul, James and Jesus.
1.5 Leadership Principles

Corporate World
and
Practices
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Management standard and principles of the corporate world change

constantly. Therefore Christian periodicals and books are published
frequently asking Christendom to incorporate those ideas for more
effectiveness. We should not try to incorporate those ideas into the
Christian management principles. Do not misunderstand me. Some of
those ideas may be very good. But do not forget the fact they are already
in the Scriptures. The secular world is slowly catching up with these
biblical ideas and then claims originality from their writings. Bible has
sufficient lessons on leadership. We do not require any more ideas from
the business world. Rather I do advise the corporate, secular world
to follow the principles of the Bible for true success. Bible principles
do not change. They do not require any improvement. Worlds ideas
frequently change and they are not dependable.
Mahatma Gandhi was not a Christian. He was a great leader. He
is known as the the father of Indian nation. He was successful because
he followed the Beatitudes of Christs and pattern laid by him. Nelson
Mandela followed the same principle and became successful for the
liberation of South Africa. Napoleon practiced the violent codes to
overcome the world. Though seemingly successful and popular for a
brief period of time, that did not last long and he did not have anyone
to follow him. Same is the case of Hitler the alluring orator, who
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swayed his country to his whims and fancies and almost devoured the
whole world. But he too perished, without any followers.
But think of Jesus the carpenter, the greatest leader! He led with
love and compassion. Millions of his followers welcomed martyrdom
in following him. Even today innumerable people are following this
greatest leader. Thousands are being killed in many hostile nations
because of their love and witness for their master.
This book on leadership, therefore, is not exclusively for Christian
churches, Christian organizations and theological institutions. The
principles laid in this book contain both theory and practice for
successful leadership in the secular world also. Commercial world
and the corporate firms should learn from the bible the unchanging
principles of leadership and management. This indeed is the calling of
the churchto shine as the light of the world (Matt. 5:13, 14). Bible
principles and Jesus example are the keys for effective leadership both
in the secular and religious world.
The subsequent chapters of this book will give exhaustive
clarification to each and every assertions stated in a nutshell in this first
chapter.
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Study Guide
1. List three basic Bible principles for effective leadership.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
2. Explain the differences between biblical principles of leadership
and secular business principles.
3. Should we incorporate leadership ideas of the commercial world,
to be successful in the Christian leadership? (Yes/No)
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4. Leaders should not behave as lords but as E__________ and S

________to the followers. (1 Peter 5:3)
5. G _______ is more important than G _____ in biblical leadership.
6. Jesus showed example for:
(i) Leading through L _______

(ii) Leading through S _______
(iii) Leading through S _______
7. Moses the great leader was faithful in all his house. God expects
leader to be F ________, not necessarily S _________________.
8. The secret of winsome leadership of Paul, James and Jesus are :
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
9. Why does the writer suggest that the secular world need to follow
the principles of the Bible? Explain.
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LEADERSHIP EXPLAINED
2.1 Meaning of Leadership
I have come across several definitions of leadership. A leader is a person

who has followers. Therefore, leadership is influence. A leader is a man
with a vision. Vision is the ability to see far into the future, the big
picture that others have not seen. When he shares the vision others
are attracted to that vision and they too want to join him. Therefore
leadership is vision and leadership is motivating others by communicating
and persuading them to join him. And so leadership is communication
and leadership is persuasion. A leader sees the vision and sets the
direction to reach the goal he has seen in the vision. He sets the goals
for attaining the objective. After establishing the direction he aligns the
people in that direction. This is done by inspiring them and by sharing
his convictions. When he successfully convinces them, he earns their
trust. Then he gives them responsibilities, delegating them for various
tasks that enable him to reach that goal (vision). Therefore, leadership
is decision-making. Leadership is winning trust. Leadership is getting
people to work for you when they are not obligated. Leaders have two
characteristics. First, they are going somewhere. Second, they are able
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to persuade others to go with them. A leader is not content with the

things as they are. He seeks change and improvement. So he is ready to
take risks in bringing about that change, a Leader is a risk- taker.
I was given one of the best definitions by Malcolm Webber. I had
the privilege of sitting in his seminar on leadership. He said, A leader
helps someone to move from where he is now to somewhere else. A
good leader moves them forward; a bad leader pushes them backwards.
Without a leader people remain where they are (status quo), or go
down or get scattered. A good leader guides the people to a better
future; a bad leader misleads the people to defeat and destruction.
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Napoleon were bad leaders. Mahatma
Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ were good leaders.
2.2 Influence of Leadership
Five kinds of power leaders employ to influence others
coercive
power
reward
power
positional
power
expert
power
servant
power
2.2.1 Coercive power
Fear of punishment. The leader threatens the followers with some kind
of discipline or punishment to get their attention and obedience. It
can be loss of salary, threats or a transfer to a remote place or even
imprisonment.
2.2.2 Reward power
Extra pay, incentive, commission, gifts and promotion. The leader

promises such rewards for the service to be rendered.
2.2.3 Positional power

Power just because of the position. I am in charge. So you do it.
Parents command obedience from children because of their position.
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This is true in relation to students and teachers, office staff and the
boss, traffic police and the vehicle drivers, and police and the guilty.
2.2.4 Expert power
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2.2.5 Servant power
Knowledge or experience in a specific field can easily command

implicit obedience from those who do not know the trade and yet
want to follow. This is true of computer wizards who can ultimately
control the organization in which the founder/leader is ignorant of
the basics in computer. I know of some mission leaders who were
thrown out by secretaries who had access to the mailings, accounts and
communications much more than the boss.
People follow you because of your servant heart. People will follow
you without any hesitation when they know that you have a servant
attitude and do things yourself without ordering others. When they
see your servant style, they follow you with joy.
Jesus Christ could have used any of the powers listed above. But
he did not. He practiced the servant leadership style. This is biblical
leadership power. This style of leadership will be discussed in another
chapter.
2.2.6 Model of a healthy leadership
The three essentials for ideal spiritual leadership are: Calling, Character
and Competence. It is like a stool with three legs. If one leg is missing,
the stool cannot stand.
2.2.6.1 Calling and character without competence: He has the
vision, passion, ideas and integrity. But without competence he reaches
nowhere.
2.2.6.2 Character and competency without calling: It results in
wandering and accomplishing nothing.
2.2.6.3 Calling and competency without character: This brings
disaster, disgrace and destruction.
Calling
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Look at David as an example of this (Psalm 78:7072)

Davids calling: He also chose David. . .to shepherd Jacob
his people and Israel his inheritance (vv. 70, 71).
Davids character: So he shepherded them according to the
integrity of his heart(v. 71a).
Davids competence: And guided them by the skillfulness
of his hands (v. 72).
2.3 Essentials of Leadership
There are two other essentials that make a healthy spiritual leader
(Matt. 25: 2240).
2.3.1 First of all it is his relation to Christ. (1 Cor. 3:11;

Col. 1:18)
In all things Christ should be the first. The leader should know Christ
as his Savior and Lord. He must be sure of Gods call and guidance.
He ought to make sure he is in the will of God. This will give him
confidence in the midst of all oppositions, odds, dangers and calamities.
2.3.2 Second, his relation to the community

The leader should fall in love with the people to whom he is called to
serve. It is not possible to serve and sacrifice for a community without
loving them sincerely. Many leaders are disconnected with reality.
There are preachers without prayer. There are evangelists without a local
church. There are Sunday school teachers without love for children .
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There are pastors splitting the church and there are preachers without
new birth. There are leaders claiming that they serve their community
but without real love for them. I have heard of some leaders in the
insurgent (underground) movements and fighting for the welfare of
their own tribe. But they did kill some of their own people when
they expressed different opinion. Some of these leaders have burned
the villages of their own community just because they expressed their
ideology slightly different from that of the leaders. These people claim
that they are serving their community. But they are not rightly related
to the community. In Christian leadership we have to be rightly related
to Christ and his church. We must be sure that God called us for the
ministry. We should be compelled by the love of Christ and at the
same time we must have sacrificial love for the church of Jesus Christ.
Without Christ in the first place we will not be well connected to
people (community)
Christ and community

relationship

Make sure of your right relation to Christ and the calling from him.
Get connected to the community in Gods love. Be steadfast in your
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determination to maintain character and integrity. If God calls you,

just obey. Competency can come by training.
2.3.3 What is a community?

A community is a people in general, a body of persons in
the same locality, a body of persons leading a common life,
or under a socialistic or similar organization.
The people living in one place, district or country, considered
as a whole. A group of people of the same religion, race,
occupation, etc... or with shared interest.
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Four kinds of community

2.3.3.1 Family as a community
Families form societies. A community is an institution where parents,

children and relatives are bound together by love and where the family
members enjoyrest, privacy, security, equality, loyalty, honesty,
cooperation, respect and regard for each other.
The family is the backbone of a nation, the salt of civilization. A
Christian family consists of a God-fearing father, mother and children.
It is where Christ is the actual Head of the family and where parents
and children daily worship him. A Christian family radiates Christ
1 MacDonald AM, Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, Alliad Publishers,
Calcutta, India, 1976.
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through their hospitality and humanitarian services. And no church

can survive without a Christian family whose members live scripturally
in faith and practice.
2.3.3.2 Church is a community
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God calls the church to get out of its walls to minister to the people
of the community. The church exists for the benefit of the community
and not for its own benefits received from the community. What is the
attitude of the church towards its community? Surprisingly that many
churches have very little influence/impact upon their community.
Church is missing its opportunity to influence even its immediate
community. The church as a community must be active and willing to
help when there is a need. Cooperating with other churches to work
in the community builds up the churchs image in the neighborhood.
2.3.3.3 Society as a community
A society is a system whereby people live together in organized

communities. It is a particular grouping of humanity with shared
customs, laws, etc. together operating smoothly to accomplish the
work of a society (Horton & Heint, 1981). No society can function
effectively unless its behavior can be predicted. There is a network of
roles that bring orderliness through rights and duties which keeps a
society under control.
What is that constitute a society? Who brings development to the
society? Who creates political institutions? Who craves for spiritual
upliftment? It is none other than the man. He is the center of all social,
economic, political and spiritual processes. He is the principal subject of
social, spiritual and scientific investigations. Therefore, for a Christian
leader, the study of human beings, as individuals and community,
must be an increasing concern and specialization. The total man has
occupied the central position in the ministry of Christ on earth.
2.3.3.4 The world as a community
World, the earth and its inhabitants, the universe.
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Refers to things of the world rather than of the spirit, or

to things pertaining to public, ordinary or everyday life.
As secular, not condemnatory or disapproving but strictly
classifies to non-religious sphere. As profane, that which
has irreverence and contempt for spiritual matters and as
mundane, its things belonging strictly to ordinary world of
everyday affairs, suggesting something practical routine and
dull. It is earthly, directly opposed to heavenly.
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Logically, all objects, collectively, that are under
consideration at one time. Missiologically, go ye into
all the world refers to everybody, everything, entirely
(Mark 16:15). Therefore, the aim of Missions is to make
Christ known to the worldnot commercial, political or
philanthropic (Douglas, Alban 1991).
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2.3.3.5 A healthy leader is built on community, not in vacuum, nor

in isolation.
Our idea of leadership is often like that of lone Eagle high up in
the air, or Islands inaccessible to other. This is a great temptation
in the individualistic lifestyle of the West and Urban environment.
Some leaders boast, Jesus and me can do it all and I do not need
community. They do not like any accountability. So, many leaders
are lonely and they do not want to share their hearts to anyone. They
are not Team Players. They are dictators. Paul had spiritual mothers,
fathers and genuine friends (1 Cor. 16:1518, Rom. 16). Once I was
counseling a young and talented leader who was obstinate and self
reliant. When I reminded him that his spiritual fathers prayed in tears
for him when he was a rebellious teen age boy, he vehemently retorted,
I do not have any spiritual fathers and I do not want any such people.
2 Editors of Readers Digest, Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary StaffReaders

Digest Use of the Right Word.
3 Websters Dictionary of American Languages, Book craft-guild, Inc. New
York, 1975.
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2.3.3.6 Healthy leaders lead community.

But some do love community so much, they dont love people.
This is destructive patriotism. Ethnic wars arise because of this false
idea of community loveA man who loves community destroys
community. This is a terrible tragedy.
2.3.4 Emergence of healthy spiritual leaders
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1. Submit to someone other than yourself. Be vulnerable to a

prayer partner. Have accountability.
2. Align yourself with others: Internal discipline of team playing.
Sacrifice your interests for the team.
3. Submit to the local churchBe accountable to a local church.
Do not be independent.
4. Submit to God in suffering, chastising like David, Joseph,
Moses and many more.
Submit to othershave accountability
Healthy Spiritual Leaders
Sacrifice ones interest for othershave internal discipline

Submit to the local churchDo not be independent
Submit to God in chastisement
A healthy Christian Leader is a man or woman who knows God,

loves and yields to the purposes of God, lives with accountability to a
community, gains credibility by character, disciplined and competent
with information, skills and gifts to lead the people, empowering them
for future leadership.
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2.3.4 Marks of a healthy Christian leader

MAN AS A LEADER
LIVES
WITH
ACCOUNTABILITY
CREDIBILITY BY
CHARACTER
DISCIPLINED
COMPETENT
INFORMATIVE
GIFTS &
SKILLS
TO
LEAD
EMPOWERING
PEOPLE
FOR FUTURE
LEADERSHIP
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GOD
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PURPOSES
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2.4 Motivation of Leadership
Human relations are important in Christian missions. They explain

why an evangelist/missionary/or any Christian working in a Christian
mission field or Christian institution works harder than another
and why some quit sooner than another, why some group workers
restrict themselves to a particular type of work but another works with
dedication. The answer lies in the LeaderWorker relationship.
Motivation is the unifying concept for relations between a
Christian leader and his co-workers or those who work under his
leadership. The motivation and attitudes of these workers may be
positive or negative. Some volunteers join-up with Christian mission
with a motive to acquire field experience which will qualify them for
an admission into a course of higher studies. Therefore their attitude
towards the ministry will be different from another.
The goal of Christian leadership is to supervise and motivate
*
Christian workers toward their call, task, ministry, organization,
church, society, nation and above all toward the Lord who appointed
them and placed them.
* Christian workers = workers under church, Christian organizations,
Christian institutions, missionaries, evangelists, lay preachers, etc.
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In a ministry, people work for various reasons. One works because

he needs money to support his family. Another works because he likes
power and position. A third may not work for all those above reasons
but he wants to obey his call. A fourth joins up by a desire for a comfort
zone and relaxation. One week the reason will be different from what
it was in the preceding week. Therefore it is necessary for a leader to
consider the total situation at a given time to understand motivation
and the performance of Christian worker. For example, the motive of
a theological graduate fresh from a seminary prominently would be to
serve the Lord, however meager the financial income may be, but this
motive would become relatively unimportant when the person begins
to receive the better financial and material assistance. There happens a
change, from time to time, of an individuals dominant motives to the
work. Because motives are based on physiological drives such as need
for food, water, rest, sleep, health and general activities.
Therefore people are

different
In physical appearance
In abilities
In temperament
In emotional make up
In cultural heritage
In what they do
In what they do not like to do
There are several social motives that are remote such as self-respect,
recognition of ones work, desire for prestige, social approval and
participation in the decision-making which may affect him.
2.4.1 Why do people choose differently?

Since management is simply working with or through individuals and
groups to accomplish organizational goals, one priority for managers
would be to understand as much as possible about why people do
things (or do not do them).
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There are two good reasons.

The lack of knowledge of management and organizational
skills.
A naive and oversimplified view of people and motivation.
It is easy to know what we want our organization to do.
But it is a difficult thing to know how they happen.
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Hampton, Summer & Webber state, Behavior on the job is a function

of what the person brings to the situation. When people come to work
in an organization they do not come empty handed. They bring various
needs or motives which predispose them to release their energy or
behave in particular waysways which seem to them likely to satisfy
the needs.
Motivation = the situation that excites the person, which will give
him zeal, enthusiasm and dedication to persist and complete the task.
This acts like a scissors,
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From these two factors we learn why a person does what he does.
What a person brings to the Job. To find the answer, we summarized
some of the best known theories of motivation.
First, distinguish between a persons ability to do something and
his will to do it. A person may be able and skilful to perform a task but
simply does not want to do it. These means he lacks motivation for that
particular assignment.
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OR
A person desires to do a particular task but does not have the skill and
training to do it.
OR
Sometimes, we are in need for a particular skill, and there is a person

willing to perform it. So we equate our need with his willingness
without checking his needs and interests.
2.4.2 Motivation in organization or mission society
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Organization means something (people & activity) put into a working

order or efficient system. It involves act of organizing means to
coordinate and prepare for activity or people acting in coordination;
having the nature of unified whole. It can be an institution or a church
or missions governed by a general body or a governing body and their
members are entrusted with the day to day affairs of the organization
under the framework of its Constitution, bye-laws and procedures.
There will be flexibility as well as strictness in the application of the rules.
There will be committees and sub-committees to discuss, consider and
to investigate or conduct certain matters of specific nature. Therefore,
An organization needs:
Operaonal Framework
People

Clearly stated purpose

Well-conceived goals
Detailed plans
Methods of evaluaon
Feedback
Who are well involved

Who know that they are
partners to a
meaningful enterprise
Who know that they
will face changes,
decisions and hardships
to achieve the ulmate
purpose
These make an organizaon possible
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2.4.3 What is a Christian organization?
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Much of our life opens up in organizations of complex nature in

size structure, longevity, etc. Some of them are social, educational,
spiritual, political and humanitarian. In social context, they are
more or less structured. We work, play, learn, experience, worship,
and teach in them. Though they vary in size and framework they all
have certain definite purposes. In a society they represent the dynamic
elements.
One cannot organize all by himself. There must be two or more
than two. But the basic organizational unit is the two-person group.
Our Lord know the power of this unit when he sent out his disciples.
Send them two and two (Luke 10:1). The two person groupDYAD.
Why two persons? Working together two can lift a heavy object
easily instead of one of them lifting it alone.
To lift a burden we need: GOAL

If one lifts and the other rests, the goal will not be accomplished4.
Moving the object
When one fails, other lifts him up.
Christian organizations live primarily because certain objectives can

be achieved only through joint efforts and collective actions of group
4 James D.Mooney, The Principles of Organization, Harper & Brothers, New
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of people. To organize themselves into a Christian organization the

people (members) have to go beyond their personal limitations and
interests in order to engage themselves for coordinated action with
others.
In Dyad, there is the concept of interdependence which
cannot be gained with one lone individual. To understand the
dynamics of an organization the concept of interdependence is
crucial. In interdependence, people influence each other and the
behavior and attitude of one person affect the behavior and attitude of
another.
The concept of Interdependence acts differently between a
collection of lone individuals and an organized group of people. Isolated
individuals do not necessarily work together to gain a common goal.
They need not relate to anyone. They only use their talents and skills to
achieve the objectives. But when these isolated individuals are brought
together to develop a common goal they put in their resources and
efforts and act cooperatively to gain a common goal, interdependence
develops and organizing unfolds.
Christian organizations today grow in size, structure, more
complex and involves people and things around them. They require
more technical resources (materials, equipments, capital) and human
resources (work, ideas, skills) for the organization to exist. There is a
confused conflict in their strife to mingle together or pool together these
resources so as to keep us the name and longevity of the organization.
In its vastness and complexity it is moving away from original purposes
and goals. Interdependence, interaction, interrelations among/
between the leaders, line and staff workers, isolated individual workers
and groups are seen fast finding from our missions. Therein lurks a
serious communication gap which blocks coordinated activities in
Christian organizations. This important issue will be discussed in a
later chapter.
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Many Christian organizations reject this theory to their own peril.
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2.6 Leadership Characteristics

Characteristics: a distinctive mark, a quality, a nature which constitutes
a personal reputation of official position, rank, status, conduct, attitudes
in harmony with the main traits of a Christian leader, an individual of
moral qualities, an object, a model to follow and a dominant human of
influence which are appropriately portrayed in the scriptures.
2.6.1 Single-mindedness
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A double-minded person is never sure of anything. He skips from one

activity to another, one type of service to another, from one calling
to another. He never knows what God wants him to do. He has an
unsubdued will and blown-up ego. A double-minded man is unstable
in all his ways (James 1:8). Such leaders are wavers and doubters
like Peter walking on the water (Matt. 14) No man can serve two
masters (Matt. 6:24). A leader cannot serve the Lord on one hand
when the world is so tempting on the other hand. He wants to serve the
Lord but is afraid to offend the devils crowd. In the spiritual behavior
of a leader this basic issue must be settled whether or not to serve the
Lord with a single mind.
2.6.2 Wisdom & knowledge
A leader requires superhuman wisdom. God is the source of wisdom

(Prov. 2:26 & James 1:58) and wisdom comes by faith. Wisdom to
understand the designs and purposed of trials, wisdom to learn lessons,
wisdom to avoid sin, wisdom to evade going in the wrong direction,
and wisdom to submit oneself to God.
Knowledge is not wisdom, although wisdom includes knowledge.
A good education can give you knowledge but not necessarily wisdom.
Knowledge is basically the accumulation of facts but wisdom is the
proper use of those facts. One may know many facts from the Bible
but may not have ability to apply them. One may be knowledgeable of
leadership but no discernment concerning a particular situation. Ask
God for wisdom (James 1:5). This must be the behavioral pattern of
a leader. Wisdom is pure (James 3:17). This purity is available to all
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leaders on a daily basis if and when a leader allows Christ to work in

him.
2.6.3 Purity of thoughts

A leader is to have purity in all areas of his life (Rom. 12:2 &
2 Cor. 10:5).
2.6.4 Purity of habits
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2.6.5 Purity of motives
A leader should not allow bad habits (very common ones are: use of
intoxicating agents, use of tobacco products, use of habitforming
drugs) to take control of him (1 Cor. 6:19, 1 Tim. 5:22).
A leader should not use dishonorable methods to gain group/personal
ambitions and popularity.
2.6.6 Peace-loving
Does not stir up strife. Avoid foolish and unlearned questions. For a
leader, purity and peaceableness are important in group relationships.
2.6.7 Gentleness
Considerate and courteous, not back-biting or sarcasm, forgive others,

pardon human failings, not retaliating when something is said about
you, forgiving, understanding, extend kindness, a willingness to go
a second mile (Matt. 5:3841), love who hates you (Matt. 5:43,44),
seek his highest good. A leader shall reflect gentleness in his life
(2 Tim. 2:24 & Titus 3:2).
2.6.8 Reasonableness
A leader is willing to listen to reason, not harsh or irreconcilable.

Willing to yield to reason and obedient to the will of God: Not my
will but Gods will.
2.6.9 Merciful & fruitful

James 1:27. A leader is tender. Shows compassion and sympathy for
the less-fortunate. Fruit must come from ones mercythe fruit of the
Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23) and fruit of righteousness (Phil. 1:11).
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2.6.10 Impartial
Whole-hearted, straight-forward, impartial, no favoritism, no playing
of politics and manipulation in the treatment of others. Show no rich
or poor difference.
2.6.11 Unhypocritical
A hypocrite is someone who gives the appearance of being something

he is not. Having the appearance of being a leader, but only plays the
part. They only go along with the behavioral patterns of leaders, live
like them, talk like them, act like them but have never been genuinely
called by God or chosen by the people.
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2.6.12 A controlled tongue
Many great leaders who are also great preachers and teachers as well
would never think of murder, adultery, stealing, lying, drunkenness,
etc. and would even preach against them but do not hesitate to
assassinate the character of another fellow leader, fellow believer, group
member through gossips, sarcasm under spiritual guise and the prayers
they offer dwell on the weaknesses of another fellow Christian.
Leaders who assassinate the character of others, no matter what
the excuse, will have some serious answering to do at the judgment of
Christ because
They preach about forgiveness but cannot forgive those who
wronged them.
They condemn idle words but rejoice in discussing about people.
They claim to have saving faith but use their tongue maliciously to
the disadvantage of others (Prov. 18:21).
Its a shame when a leader misuses his tongue. A leader who
speaks harshly, rashly offending others in his speech (Prov. 18:19) and
a leader, during a thoughtless moment, using unkind and hasty words
can cause untold damage in the group.
2.6.13 Worldliness
Addicted to money, pleasure, position, higher level of living, wealth and
fame become gods to some leaders. They would sacrifice anything or
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anyone to reach the top by slandering a person or by taking advantage

of someones weaknesses so as to live in pleasure (James 5:5). The Bible
warns against such (John 2:15; James 4:4) and such leaders are carnally
minded (Rom. 8:58) and have the vitality taken away from their
spiritual life and leadership values.
2.6.14 Patience
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The essential quality of endurance. Our testing produces patience. A

person that remains under testing, endures the testing and the testing
produces patience. Self-control is closely related to this. Endurance is
the ability to withstand hardship or stress. Patience is the ability to bear
pain without complaint. A leader should realize that it takes time to
succeed in any task that is worthy of honour of the Lord.
2.6.15 Grudging
A leader is not to groan or grumble against each other (James 5:9).

None of us is perfect or above criticism. A leaders behavior should be
as in Pauls words (Phil. 4:1113).... to be content in every situation.
Do not look at what others have. It will make you discontented further.
Do not groan or grumble when difficult times come.
2.6.16 Confess your fault
To confess means to admit or to agree with. It is to confess

privately (Matt. 5:23,24). Confess your sins one to another
(James 5:16). Unconfessed sin will hinder our fellowship with God and
with each other. Confess to the person whom you wronged. Confession
is difficult but its power is good. Pray for each other. It unites hearts
and heals wounds.
2.6.17 Earnest Prayer
Energetic prayers. A kind of prayer that is put into operation. All kinds
of prayers public or private (Eph. 6:18) must be in perseverance and
supplications. Do not give up praying but continue.
A leader should often make spiritual check-up on his behavior so
as to restore his fellowship with God and man.
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Study Guide
1. Define Leader
Leader is a person who has .................................
Leader is a man with a ........................................
Leader sees the ..................................................
Leader sets the ................ to reach.............. he has seen in the
........................
e) Leader sets ...........for attaining the ...........................
f) Leader seeks ...................... and ................................
g) Leader is a ........................................................
2. Define leadership
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b)
c)
d)
a) Leadership is ....................................................
b) Leadership is ....................................................
c) Leadership is .......................................... others.
d) Leadership is ....................................................
e) Leadership is ....................................................
f) Leadership is ....................................................
g) Leadership is ....................................................
h) Leadership is ....................................................
i) Leadership is ....................................................
j) Leadership is ....................................................
k) Leadership is ....................................................
3. What is a vision?
4. How does a leader motivate and persuade others for attaining the
objectives?
5. What are the characteristics of leaders?
6. State and elaborate Malcolm Webbers definition of leadership.

7. State and explain the four kinds of powers leaders employ to
influence others.
8. State the three essential elements for a spiritual leadership. How are
these elements seen in the leadership style of David.
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9. Comment what happens when one of these elements is missing.

10. There are two other essentials that make a healthy spiritual leader.
What are they? Explain them briefly.
11. Without Christ in the first place we will not be well connected to
people. Give a diagramical representation to show the relation of
the statement to the three essential elements for a spiritual leader.
12. Differentiate and relate the community and the society.

13. How is family a community?
14. In what ways can a church be a community?
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15. Why is it necessary for a Christian leader to do a study on human

beings?
16. What is World in the secular sense?
17. What does a healthy leader do to the community?
18. State the four steps suggested for the emergence of healthy spiritual
leaders.
19. What are the two good reasons that people choose differently?
20. People come to work with various needs or motives which influence
them in advance to work or behave in a particular way. This acts
like a scissors. Explain the process with the help of a diagram.
21. Quote any two theories of motivation.
22. What is an organization?
23. State the two specific needs of an organization.
24. How do the two specific needs make an organization possible?

25. What does it mean to deviate from expected goal?
26. What does Operational frame work include?
27. How are people important in organizational needs?
28. Draw out the concept of interdependence in the leadership of
Nehemiah.
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29. Leadership is logical and rational. Explain with the help of a chart.
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30. Is meekness an essential characteristic of a leader? If Yes/No, write

a paragraph about it from the character of an appropriate biblical
leader.
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Chapter 3
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TYPES, KINDS, CONCEPTS, AUTHORITY OF

LEADERSHIP
3.1 Two Types of Leadership
3.1.1 Transactional leadership
This type of leadership is performed by Bargain. This takes place in

four different ways. Though successful in secular world, this is not the
Godly way of leadership.
1. If you follow me there will be reward. This is by enticing people by
promises. This is the practice of politicians when they canvass for votes. This
is done by parents to make their children study wellLeading by promises.
2. You will not be punished if you obey me. Idi Ammin of Uganda
and Hitler of Germany were able to force people into obedience, against
their own will, because of their fear of retribution. This is leading by
threatening.
3. You will be promoted if you please me. This is bargain by offering
position. This is by appealing to the ego of people. A natural man loves
position and will do anything to get it, though it may be against his
own conscience. One example for this is the practice of bribery to get
jobs, transfer and promotion.
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4. You will become expert on the trade if you follow me. This is the
appeal to the self-interest of the candidate. You will become better
administrator in my company. You will be better trained in the subject
of your interest if you join my firm.
In transactional leadership there will be self-promotion, self-praise
and ego fulfillment of the leader.
3.1.2 Transformational leadership
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This leadership is achieved by inspiring followers. They observe the life

of the leader and are motivated to follow them even without expecting
anything in return. When they see the love of the leader towards them,
they want to follow him wholeheartedly. It is said, People may forget
the words of the leader. But they will never forget his care. When they
notice the serving mentality and style of the leader they will make a
healthy team. While transactional leadership style will tend to be a one
man show; authoritarian and dictatorial, transformational leadership
style will be encouragement, respecting and selflessness by the leader.
3.1.3 Transactional / Transformational leadership

Transaconal leadership
Transformaonal leadership
It is based on bargain
Based on obedience to the will of God
They are volunteers for some me
They are ministers for life
It is a job for them
It is a ministry for them
For anyone who serves the

Lord and his church on the
basis of a bargain, it is a job
But a person who serves the Lord

obeying the will of God, it is a
ministry
1.
2.
3.
4.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Does it because no one else will

Does it to get by
Distracted with other things
Quits when there is no praise &
appreciaon
5. Hard to get excited
6. Success is his concern
Does it because it is Gods will

Does his best
Focused on the ministry
Perseveres even when nobody
noces
5. Impossible to be excited
6. Faithfulness is his concern
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So, if God calls you, do not treat it as a job. Turn it into a ministry.
How sad it is that many of our Bible college graduates end up in jobs
and do not go for ministry.
3.1.4 Five types of leaders
Five types of leaders
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3.2 Three Kinds of Leadership
1. Authoritarian Leadership: Jesus spoke of this as Worldly

Leadership (Matt. 20:25).
2. Servant Leadership: Jesus modeled this (Matt. 20:2628).
3. Non-Leadership: Peter advised abdication of leadership to
avoid risk (John 13:8).
3.2.1 Authoritarian
A person favoring complete obedience to authority

before personal freedom. Authorityhaving the power
to give orders or to take orders from.
3.2.2 Servant
One who serves a master, useful, helpful, serviceable,

dependable and expendablea faithful and devoted
one, asks nothing but only receives what is offered.
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The
Measure of a Christian Leader
3.2.3 Non-Leader
Non- committal, non-compliance attitude and a nonconformist to the biblical aspects of churches and
missions.
AUTHORITATIAN
SERVANT
God - serving vision
NON-LEADER
No clear vision
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Self-serving vision
3.2.4 Kinds of leadership classified
Sets goals individually
Involves people in goalsetting
Allows all to set goals
Insensitive to followers
needs
Facilitates discussions
Avoids discussions
Positional and coercive

power
Servant power and expert

power
Positional power
Keeps information under

control
Shares information to
others
Ignores promotion
Rarely delegates the

project to control
Delegates projects to
develop people
Dumps entire projects on

others
Demands recognition
Shares recognition
Allows others to gain

recognition
Focuses on negative
behavior
Focuses on positive
behavior dealing with the
negative
Ignores all what he

considers
Poor listener
Good listener
May be poor or good

listener
Uses conflict for personal

gain
Mediates conflict for

corporate gain
Avoids conflict
Takes advantage of others

for self gain
Coaches, develops and

sustains followers
Leaves others alone

Rewards good works only
as the last resort
May offer reward or

punishment
Does not take criticism
Learns from opposing

views
Ignores criticism
Negative role model
Positive role model
Negative role model
Rewards obedience and

punishes mistakes
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3.3 Concepts of Leadership
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1. By analyzing past performance

Example:
Building a
tower
2. By planning for the future
3. By supervising and coordinating the

activities of associates
4. By wisely utilizing
material resources.
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3.3.1 Therefore the related leadership concepts
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Administraon
Organizaon
Planning
Controlling schedules
Maintaining systems and structures
Recruing and training personnel
Maximum ulizaon of physical and financial resources
Delegang of responsibilies
Empowering with authority
Implemenng acon
Achieving well-defined objecves
Evaluaon of performance
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3.3.2 Two qualifying ingredients of responsibility of

ministerial/Christian leaders
Luke 22:26: He who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger,
and he who governs as he who serves.
3.3.3 Christian Leadership Style

1
Duties by serving
2
Serving by caring
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No leadership style is right, wrong or best for all situations. A good

A TASK
TaskMASTERS
Master
Encourages and enables fellow laborers
Taps peoples skills
GETTING
THE
Conserves, ulizes human resources,

material resources, financial resources
Do not manipulate sub-ordinates

Does
GOD-ORIENTED
JOB
Invigorates fellow laborers
Laborers to have a common passion to

achieve goals
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THE
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leader tends to switch instinctively between styles according to the

people and work they are dealing with. The most effective approach in
this depends on the skill levels and experience of the workers and the
work they involved in.
3.3.4 Fifteen lifestyles to follow after
1. Be faithful in small things to find your way up. (eg.) Parables of the
talents.
2. Be willing to carry responsibilities even when taunts and
provocations challenge you to material possessions.
3. Be ready to accept and handle envy and bitterness from within the
organization at your posting to authority. Do not allow success to
go into your head and divert you from trusting God.
4. Be willing to maintain genuine human spirit instead of hiding
behind organizational principles and policies.
5. Be truthful, and hold high the biblical values.
6. Be uncompromising. Do not sell principles and policies for
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personal, public, organizational benefits.

7. Be courageous to face crisis and failure. Seek the path of recovery
and Gods direction for normalcy.
8. Be humble before God during loss, gain or exhaustion
(1 Sam. 30:46). Seek Gods counsel.
9. Be not guided by the feeling of pride, revenge, bitterness. When
elevated to authority, show maturity in speech, action and
judgments.
10. Be approachable.
11. Be mature. Leave matters to Gods judgments. Do not be vindictive.
12. Be appreciative to the followers.
13. Be prayerful. Seek Gods counsel for every aspect of life.
14. Be in touch with God in operation, coordination and organizing.
15. Be watchful. Rivalry and quarrels in the organization have a farreaching consequences. Take decisive action. Show competence.
Show no undue favors.
3.3.5 Six matters to realize
1. Realize that leaders cannot cleverly control God by unfair means as

David did with Absaloms case.
2. Realize that leaders too can be easily influenced by sin and
temptations to sin. The consequences that David suffered because
of his fall is described in 2 Samuel 1112.
3. Realize that leaders too would commit mistakes. They must have
the humility to accept the mistakes and the readiness to confess
their mistakes/sins and surrender fully to God (Ps. 32&51).
4. Realize that spiritual leadership should originate in ones mind and
attitude. It is in ones heart and mind.
5. Realize that leaders need to offer their bodies as living sacrifice
(Rom. 12:1).
6. Realize that the leadership pattern is not agreeing to the pattern of
this world but by renewing ones mind (Rom. 12:2).
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3.4 The Attitude of a Christian Leader

A leaders thought has powerful influence upon his actions. It plays
a major role in what decision he makes and what goal he achieves. If
a leader thinks convincingly that something is impossible, either he
avoids doing it, or rejects every suggestion on its possibilities. He takes
a negative attitude.
3.4.1 Negative attitude
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An expression of denial or refusal. With negative attitude a leader takes

negative decisions, based on his negative observations. This shows
that the leader lacks in definite, constructive or helpful qualities or
characteristics. Such a person cannot be entrusted with responsibilities,
that is, he is not interested in trying to do it well or properly. But, that
doesnt mean that a negative attitude cannot be improved.
Attitudes are formed from past incidents which influences the
future actions of a person. When a workers conscious mind builds
up a negative attitude from a thinking or experience, that his ideas
are not appreciated, that same is stored in the subconscious mind and
reproduced when a need and circumstance come.
Entry of negave
incidents
Entry of posive
incidents
Value
Judgment
-B
-B
NEGATIVE
+A
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POSITIVE
-B
+A
Aer the conscious mind judging

what is negave or posive
Stored in subconscious mind
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approach, Myron, Page 179 (Remodeled)
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ESPIONAGE 1
(MOSES) Numbers 13
The Bible has several examples of positive/negative thinking people.

The man who received the one talent dwelled on the negative and was
convinced that he could not do business with a peanut-size investment.
Then he became more negative and attacked the donor. Negative
conclusions and wrong assumptions are the by-products of negative
thinking. The man though he could not, his conscious mind received
it, judged it and stored in his subconscious mind.
From the case of the spies under Moses and Joshua, one may study
the influence and power of these attitudes upon the group.
Though God promised they could not. An
insignificant feeling (Grasshopers).
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NEGATIVE
THINKING
NEGATIVE
ACTION
Result: 38 years of wandering and death.
False assumpons supplied from

reporters negave thought paern.
Therefore, negave acons.
Remained on the banks of Jordan.
RETREATING
ATTITUDE
CONTAGIOUS
ATTITUDE
AIMLESS
STAGNANT
Doubt on God, fear, midness spread

among the group/organizaon.
In an organization, negative attitude of one person spreads like wild

fire. Negative thinking is one of strategic loops of the devil to weaken
a Christian movement or organization with doubt on God and his
Word.
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3.4.2 Positive attitude

ESPIONAGE II
(Joshua) Joshua 2
Believing in God instead of circumstances

Applies the power of godly thinking
Focuses on God as the total resources
POSITIVE
ATTITUDE
V.24
This is different from the power of posive thinking
Power of Posive Thinking
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Assumes that by
thinking posively one
can turn desires to
reality
Assumes that ones

own mental powers
are sufficient to
achieve goals
Assumes that religious

meditaons like yoga
can promote posive
thinking
This is a fallacy because
In applying the power of posive thinking, we focus on

human resourcefulness instead of focusing on God as
the total resources
A Christian leaders positive attitude that originates from his Godly

thinking can grow, expand and be productive.
The source of Christian leaders positive thinking is Gods power
at work within him making him do far more than he thinks. William
Carey said, Expect great things from God and attempt great things for
God, means the size of your goals shows the size of your God. Our
attitude towards God reflects our concepts of God. We do not have
because we do not ask.
There may be hundreds of things in a leaders plan that simply
wont work. But maintain a positive attitude, and work on, youre near
to the right workable solutions. Failure in certain aspects in the plan
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are not the failure of the projects. They are opportunities for further
advanced experiments. Therefore cultivate patience.
Both positive and negative attitudes are influential and
contagious. Positive attitudes are productive and negative attitudes
are unproductive. A leader must maintain a positive attitude when
handling problems and problematic situations.
It is advisable for a leader to sense the attitude of the group and
their enthusiasm for the day before he begins the days activities. It is
better that a person of negative attitude in the group be laid off because
he/she would generate more problems.
True, you may be a great leader, not because you had achieved
something great, but because you have a great God.
The Bible tells us to think things that are of positive nature such
as things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent
and praiseworthy. Because they promote positive actions and great
innovative ideas for the future.
3.4.3 How to maintain positive attitude

1. Focus on Gods resources instead of
personal resourcefulness
Focus on God in every situation
Focus on God for a positive mental
attitudeJOSHUA (Num. 13).
Focus on God for a positive
confident attitude
DAVID (1 Sam. 17).
Focus on God in every situaon (Phil. 4).
Focus on God for posive mental atude (Num. 13).
Focus on God for a posive confident

atude (1 Sam. 17).
2. Focus on the future not the past
Develop an optimistic outlook on life as

Apostle Paul had in Philippians 3 and
Apostle James had in James 1.
Here, we have two principles.
Therefore, act accordingly. How?
Principle 1: Looking to the future with

expectaon:

What is going to happen

What needs to be done
Principle 2: Looking at problems as

opportunity for advancement. Be happy
when difficules come.
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1. Set Goals (Phil. 3:14)

What do the goals do?
Keep us focused
on what God does
through us
SET GOALS
What do the goals give?

Reasons for working
Meaning to life
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2. Face difficulties happily (James 1)
Therefore, in leadership, face difficulties/problems happily.
3.4.4 What good leaders know

3.4.4.1 Commitment
The health of an organization is based upon the commitments among

the members of the organization and between the members of the
organization and those outside of it.
A commitment is in writing. If it is not in writing it does not
exist.
Commitment is an agreement on the part of one person to reach a
mutually agreed upon objective.
An objective or a goal is a statement of a future condition or event
which when achieved become past event.
3.4.4.2 Commitment lies in the future
We do not make commitments about past. Good managers know that
they manage best by seeking a written commitment.
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Good leaders are :

Committed to themselves
Committed to subordinates
Committed to peers
Committed to superiors
3.4.4.3 Types of commitment
A Christian manager sees all four under the lordship of Christ.
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(1) Commitment to ourselves and our calling. This will change in the
process of time when one goal is achieved and others replace it.
Commitments, goals and statements of faith about our future are the
source of our vision and dreams. Therefore, put them in writing.
(2) Commitment to our subordinates. This changes when our goals are
reached. New plans are undertaken.
(3) Commitment between peers. This will also change as the organization
changes with time. Requires a new set of commitment between workers.
Organization is not static. It changes as people do.
(4) Commitment to superiors. This too will change (as above).
Commitment involves counting the cost, means, see the cost
before you begin Luke 9:62. No church, individual or group should
undertake a ministry without a firm commitment and determination
to see through it whatever the cost it may demand.
3.5 Leadership and Authority
Authority means the freedom or right to take action. It is the power

to give orders and make others obey, power to take action and power to
supply reliable information or evidences. The leader takes action based
on how he perceives a situation. But in Christian leadership it is:
Plan the work, work the plan is the appropriate term for
leadership. It is not authority and executive power play but a
comradeship of working along with others. Leaders involvement, not
authority, is paramount. It is more than his preaching, teaching and
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commanding. It is showing up on the work site with a commitment to

hands-on work. This demonstrates an attitude I can do in discussions
as well as in involvement. This is a practical matter.
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3.5.1 The impact of leaders authority
Therefore, a leader should be:

Self-starter
Dependable
Not easily discouraged
Having a vision for the possibilities
The sharing of leaders authority:
A leader should share his authority with the group leaders, e.g. of
mission committee, social service committee, caring committee, etc.,
which are special hand-picked task force, lay leaders, coordinators,
congregational leaders and grant them appropriated authority to
make executive decisions, assigning workers, volunteers for projects,
procuring and distributing supplies and for other project related
activities.
Supervision and appeal:
In supervision, the leader must make a sensible approach while
demanding responsibility from the group leaders. Responsibility is
transferable. It must pass on to the next leader.
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CONTINUUM ON
RELATION BETWEEN LEADERS AUTHORITY
& PEOPLE PARTICIPATION
(+)
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GREATER
AUTHORITY
PEOPLE
MORE PEOPLE
PARTICIPATION
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LESS PEOPLE
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LESSER
AUTHORITY
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(+)
A leader appeals to the aspirations of the participants, and not to

their sense of obedience to the authority, that something noteworthy
would take place to bring meaning and satisfaction to their group
activities.
3.5.2 A. When does a leader gets authority?

1. When he willingly submit his individual beliefs and his actions to
that authority.
God looks differently. An unworthy David was found worthy
of God. A good-for-nothing Augustine Salins became the leader of
Ambassadors for Christ. Daniel purposed in his heart. . .(Dan. 1:8).
Daniels loyalty to his God was the key to his rise to authority. God
honored Nehemiahs concern for his people and gave him authority
and responsibility.
2. When he commits to accomplish the given objectives/goals/vision,
authority with responsibility is enough to act appropriately.
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3.5.3 B. Who gets authority?

Authority has to be won from those over whom it is exercised
Rev. Tome Houston.
spiritual
1. A person of reputation
trusted
2. A person of experience
One who has accomplished a great deal in a

particular field
One who has handled situations successfully
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One who is able to delegate authority to

another
3. A person of technical expertise: Though he may not be in the position

of authority, his opinion prevails in given matters.
Authority here centers around the work to be done, the goals
reached, vision fulfillled rather than on the authority of the person.
The work to be done
The
vision
fulfilled
Authority
centers around
The
goals
reached
3.5.4 C. Authority in the church and in Christian

organizations
Depends on how it is organized:
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Authority in the church

CONTROLLED BY
BOARD
ELECTION
Considers all the
staff as members
who elect the
leader
As employer/
employee
relaonships
Controlled by Board
of directors /
commiees
MUTUAL
RELATIONSHIP
Organizing style
7 ways to leadership
Some become leaders because they volunteer.
2.
Some are thrust to the front by circumstances
3.
Some represent on Father figure to followers who desire authoritative

direction.
4.
Some excel obviously beyond the competitions.
5.
Some sense within themselves a divine calling.
6.
Some represent vested interests.
7.
Some are chosen by majority.
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Dr. Mathew Finny in Management of Indian Missions. Ch. 9, E. Suderraj& Team, 1992
Majority of Christian organizations today are family affairs.
3.5.5 D. Bible describes church as fitted together like

human body in some sense

Every leader has

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a humble beginning. Moses served his father-in-law 40 years, Joseph

served in the Pharaohs house and then in jail, Nehemiah and Jeremiah
were servants to heathen kings, David served Saul. All were put under
subjection to suffer hardship, depression and sorrow that they might
learn to trust God and be faithful in small matters leading to greater
responsibilities.
In most Christian organizations, the leadership usually goes to the
most charismatic person of the group. He may be a person who can
inspire people and bring isolated individuals together for work. He may
be a person who attracts attention, a popular and commanding figure.
He may be the popular preacher or best teacher among the people. But
they may not be the best leader and manager. When administrative
responsibilities are piled upon him, he is found to be unable to cope
up with the various demands of the organization which is packed
with the pressures and pulls of the day and infact he falls head-long
into it. Although he holds the authority, he needs the assistance of a
professional leader of good repute, experience and ability and who will
report to him for the smooth functioning of the organization. Such a
person must be appointed after a strict scrutiny for he has to be both
a trustworthy manager and a capable leader who with his knowledge,
skills, insight and abilities would lead the organization to future and
keep it shipshape in the present.
Therefore:
LEADERSHIP IS
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NOT
IS
Leadership power play

Showing of authoritarian attitude
Control over the mind and behavior
of the people
Publicity, show of personality
A humble service of a servant attitude to

the group (2 Cor. 1:2631).
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3.6 The Functions of Leadership
Setting goals: Aims and objectives derived out of the leaders vision. It
must be a written vision and shared among the associates connected
with it so that the whole group may see the meaning of the task
they perform towards the goals. If the goals of the leader are to be
materialized they must be the goals of all. The sharing of goals happens
only when the leader visualizes the future, that the people with him
wants to participate in it, and once the long and short objectives are set,
plans are laid, activities are coordinated to achieve the goals.
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Systematization of program: Prioritize the listed program. Give each a

time schedule, points of control, place, time of review and frequency
to evaluate the progress of the society. Delegate the task, and
responsibility to several workers with clarity of the task, responsibilities,
accountability and interrelationships, thus bringing the whole system
under coordination and control.
Maintain interdependence and inter-relationships: A leader should be
approachable in such a way that his associates, superiors, assistants,
managers, supervisors, and sub-ordinates may advise him or appraise
him of the various activities. There must be an uninterrupted
communication between the leader, the heads of department and
people that all may be fully informed of the decisions of the leader so
as to avoid misunderstanding and false rumors.
Encourage cooperation: There is success in people working together.
Clarification on everything that is expected of each of the members
of the organization helps to avoid misleading and delays. Therefore a
leader should encourage cooperation.
Give appreciation: Give due recognition to the successful completion of
a goal and appreciate all those who are involved in it.
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1. How does transactional leadership work out?
2. How is transformational leadership achieved?
3. Differentiate between transactional leadership and transformational
leadership based on the leader attitude.
4. Differentiate between a JOB and a MINISTRY.
5. Draw a chart and show in it the five types of leaders.

6. What kind of leadership is mentioned in
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2. Matthew 20:2628 ................................
3. John 13:8 .............................................
7. Account for authoritarian, servant and non-leader leadership.
8. Give at least 10 characteristic features of
Authoritarian
Servant
Non-leader
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)
9. For which of you intending to build a tower, does not sit down
and count the cost whether he has enough to finish (Luke 14:28).
Relate this verse into the modern concept of building.
10. Mention any 6 leadership concepts which a leader may do
effectively.
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11. Elaborate in hundred words the two qualifying ingredients of

responsibility of a Christian leader 1. Duties by serving and
2. Serving by caring (Luke 22:26).
12. How does the Christian leadership style get the God-oriented job
done?
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14. Good leaders are committed to

Sees all four under the .........................................................................
15. Why a leader should write down his commitment and calling?
16. Commitment involves counting the cost. Comment.
17. How is authority portrayed in Christian leadership?
18. What is the impact of leaders authority?
19. What should a leader be?
20. Give the 2 steps for a leader to get authority.
21. Who gets authority? and who gives authority>

22. The authority centers around
1. ..........................................
2. ..........................................
3. ..........................................
23. What are the 7 ways to leadership?
24. What leadership is and what leadership is not?

25. State and explain the functions of leadership.
26 Draw a continuum and make entries into it to explain point

3.5.1 of your text:
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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Leadership is what builds and maintains a great nation and a great

people.
After the Second World War, when people turned to rebuild
their towns and cities destroyed by war, they learned to manage
objects, procedures, money, time, equipment and machinery. While
management was important they somewhere missed leadership.
Through leadership we feel inspired, motivated and encouraged to
do our best, and not just managed.
4.1 Definitions: Management
Working with and through people and groups to accomplish

organizational goals. Influencing human behavior regardless of the
goals. It means:
The act of running and controlling a business or similar
organization.
The people who run and control a business or similar
organization.
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The act or skill of dealing with people or situations in a

successful way.
The way in which you organize is how you spend your time.
Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary.
In the Christian organizational management, it is :
The process of
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1. Planning
2. Organizing
3. Leading
4. Controlling human efforts
5. Controlling resources
To achieve stated organizational goals
For an organization to be effective its managers need to be able

to make decisions everyday and to constantly solve problems for the
benefit of the organization.
Planning is essential for an organization to achieve desired goals.
It must be attended to at every step of its progress. It is necessary to
first plan in a wide-scale and then narrow down to different levels of
the organization so that every member of the organization knows what
is expected of him.
That is,
That is,
EVERYONE HAS A HAS-TO-DO LIST TOWARDS
EVERYONE HAS ENOUGH RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS
ORGANIZATIONAL
OBJECTIVES
The Christian organizations have typical organization structure.

The leaders, administrative staff, field staff, coordinators, state
promoters, departmental managers, project managers, etc. must be
structured in such a way that the members can be linked together for
interaction and communication.
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The leadership in a Christian organization arises from peculiar

relationships that form among Christian people joined together in a
collaborative effort. It takes on an identity of its own, existing in these
relationships. It both influences and is influenced by those individuals
who enter into this relationship.
The leadership in this is not a randomly operating process. It has
a substantive and meaningful core around which to form itself and to
give it traction for advancing the organization towards its stated goals.
Leadership and authority are viewed a distinct phenomena.
Authority at the top is not leadership authority speaks for command.
It expresses the superior role of management over the inferior function
of leadership.
On this basis, organizational leadership can provide the functions
of leadership rather than individual charismatic leaders. Organizational
leadership is far more reliable and focussed on organizations ability to
accomplish its own purpose and ensure its own sustainability.
4.2.1 What leadership is
Influencing others
Effective leaders influence others to think, act and follow
Leaders set an example for others to choose to follow
Choice of leadership is the essence of leadership
Serving others
A leader is one who serves (Laotse, Chinese
philosopher)
Definition of a successful life must include serving
others (George Bush)
Basically, a leader is a person who leads a group of people, an
organization, an enterprise, a nation toward a certain definite goal.
Leadership signifies a person who commands respect in an audience,
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obeyed and followed who is the head of an organization and guides

others.
In Personal leadership, a person is born with the talent of a leader.
In Management leadership, a person learns to be a leader.
4.2.2 How do we test a person for leadership?

(Koontz & ODonnell)
traitist approach: Certain traits are studied.
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situationist approach: The study of the situation in which the

leadership operatesplace the candidate in a group or situation and
observe how he acts under trivial situations that are made as realistic
as possible.
elementalist approach: The study of certain elements like, speech,
intelligence, stability, persistence as essential in leaders.
A leader is not an ordinary member of a group, team or
organization. By virtue he must have certain qualities such as vitality,
decisiveness, power of endurance, foresight and capacity to persuade to
lead and guide the people.
A leader must be willing to serve. Why?
Real service has high value.
Our time, emotions, energy and effort when contributed have
impact on people and problems.
4.2.3 Two main ingredients of service

1
WILLINGNESS + ABILITY
TYPE+KIND+QUALITY OF SERVICE
To serve willingly
Not a lip service
department
every member of the
organization responsible
for the service
Correlation
between
How a leader serve his followers
How the followers serve others
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Two chief questions:

1. How do I serve my people?
2. How do I treat them?
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Leadership?
Because people will turn around and serve others on the basis of the
answer to these questions.
Why? Everything we do must be an example for our followers and
co-workers to follow.
Only the servantleaders can advance a community.
Three
leadership philosophies

4.3.1 A service philosophy
Keep saying/reiterating we are all in this together. The managers,

the supervisors, the telephone attendant, the driver, the delivery man,
etc. We are all in this to serve the people, together. People make the
difference.

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4.3.2 A personal philosophy

ImageHow do I look? Physical appearance. Personality
CharacterAm I impeccable in behavior and testimony?
ProfessionalismDo it right from the very first time
ServiceGet things done on time. Promptness.

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4.3.3 A training philosophy
Explain and clarifyIncrease service = Increase volume...........

Increase volume = Increase profits
Increase profits = increase benefits for all members.
to

4.3.4 Service ethics
What you sow, so you reap = You get back what you give out.

People dont care how much you

know until they know how much
you care
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Detail: People are not interested in your title, college degrees or money
power.
First, they want to know how much you care for them as a person
and how much you are ready to help them in solving their problems.
Second, then your skill and experience are regarded.

You are truly leading when your

service for a common good is the
primary purpose.
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4.3.5 Answer these 3 questions to know if your

leadership is Dead or Alive
FirstWhat should I desire if I were dealing with myself?
(A personal level question) /
SecondWhom am I serving ?
Serving my ego?
Serving financial gain?
Serving for status?
ThirdWhat is your score?
You Leadership
Dead/
Alive
WE HAVE:
IQ = Intelligence Quotient
PQ = Personality Quotient
RQ = Risk Quotient
SQ = Service Quotient
When you come to SQ how will you and your organization

Dead
Alive
score?
How will your leadership stand?
Serving must be a part of your personal leadership philosophy.
4.4 Two Orientations: Leaders and Managers

Distinctions between leadership and management
(Secular viewsOlan Hendricks)
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1. Leadership is a quality;

Management is a science and an art.
2. Leadership provides vision;

Management supplies realistic perspectives.
3. Leadership deals with concepts;

Management relates to functions.
4. Leadership exercises faith;

Management has to do with facts.
5. Leadership seeks for effectiveness;

Management strives for efficiency.
6. Leadership is an influence for good among potential resources;
Management is the coordination of available resources
organized for maximum accomplishment.
7. Leadership provides direction;

Management is concerned about control.
8. Leadership thrives on finding opportunity;

Management succeeds on accomplishment.
A leader is one who guides activities of others and who himself acts
and performs to bring these activities about.
4.4.1 Spiritual leaders and managers
A leader is a person who sees a vision. He looks for changes. He

takes risks to bring that change. He is ready to face oppositions. He
communicates his vision to others to persuade them to join. But he has
the boldness to stand alone if necessary.
But a manager is content with the present situation. He is satisfied
with the status quo. He wants to protect and maintain the present
image and assignment entrusted to him by the leader.
Many pastors are great spiritual managers. They efficiently
maintain, manage and run smoothly the church they inherited or are
appointed to. They do not seek for any expansion. They do not venture
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for any new projects. Only few pastors are great leaders. They see
new possibilities and prospects for the church. They venture for new
projects. They are not satisfied with status quo just to maintain as
the church was for the past many years. Let us accept the factthe
church needs leaders and managers. Every organization requires leaders
and managers. Every company requires leaders and managers. Both
positions are equally important. Let us look to the chart that compares
these two orientations:
Managers
Watch the bottom linefocus on

short term
Create vision and strategy
Plan and budget
Identify opportunities
Identify obstacles
Define the path
Clean the path
Take risks
Avoid risks
Excited by change
Threatened by change
Start revolution
Protect the status quo
Start new things
Finish what has been begun
If it is possible do it
If it is necessary lets do it
Create change
Maintain stability
Prioritize future challenge

opportunities
Prioritize current commitments
Eliminate boundaries
Create boundaries
Idea centered
Plan centered
Ask what? why?
Ask how? when?
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long term
Have subordinates.
Have authoritarian, transactional
style.
Are work focused.
Seek comfort and safety.
Do things right.
Managing is about efficiency.
Managing is about copying.
Managers push them.
Manager is organizing and
staffing.
Control and solve problems.
Managers administer.
Is a copy/duplication.
Managers maintain.
Accept the reality.
Focus on systems and stricture.
Rely on control.
Have a short-range view.
Ask how and when.
Have eye on the bottom line.
Accept the status quo.
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Have followers.
Have charismatic,
transformational style.
Are people focused.
Seek adventure and risk.
Do the right thing.
Leading is about effectiveness.
Innovate initiate and create.
Leaders pull them.
Leader is setting direction.
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Motivate and inspire people.

Leaders innovate.
Is original.
Leaders develop.
Investigate reality.
Focus on people.
Inspire trust.
Have a long-range perspective.
Ask what and why.
Have eye on the horizon.
Challenge the status quo.
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Management
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For a leadership to be successful, a good management is essential. But

leadership is more than management. Leadership coordinates human,
material and financial resources to the maximum fulfillment.
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1. What do you mean by management in its secular sense ?
2. What is management in Christian organization?
3. Why is leadership peculiar in Christian organizations?
4. Why is organizational leadership far more reliable?

5. Authority at top is not .......................
6. Authority speaks for .........................
7. Effective leadership ............................ and ........................
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9. Leadership signifies .......................................................................

10. In personal leadership, a person is ..................................................
11. In management leadership, a person is ...........................................
12. State and explain the three approaches to test a person for leadership.
13. What are the qualities of a leader by virtue?
14. Draw a chart to show the two main ingredients of services?

15. State the three leadership philosophies with the help of a diagram.
16. Explain the three leadership philosophies with diagramical
representations.
17. Give details for the two service ethics a leader needs to remember.
18. Write down at least 5 distinctions between leadership and
management.
19. A leader is a person
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
Who sees ......................

Who looks for .......................
Who takes ............................
Who is ready to face .....................
Who ....................his ....................
Who has the .......................to .....................
20. Why only few pastors are great leaders?

a) They see .......................................................
b) They venture ................................................
c) They are not .................................................
21. Bring out any 10 contrasts between leaders and managers.
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PROFILE OF A LEADER
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Leadership Qualities
Jesus Christ the greatest leader
He made himself of no reputation. He emptied himself. Humility

is the basis of all leadership.
He stepped down from deity to humanity.
He accepted the privilege and responsibility of humbling himself.
He took upon himself the form of a servant, a slave. He accepted the
servants place(John 13) when no one was prepared to do so from
among the group who were the leadershiptrainees under himhe
knelt down and washed their feet. He showed how far a leader can
stoop down in his demonstration of love, concern and care. This was
the principle that made Christ the greatest of all leaders. He that is
going to be the greatest among youthe leaderhas got to learn to be
a servant(Matt. 23:11) This was his way to be great.
Christ was humble, and at the same time he was God. He was not
a rogue or a phony. He is supreme in the reality of his deity, equality
of his deity and the humility of his deity. He accepted a servants place,
and adopted a selfless position. He is our Creator therefore our savior
who skillfully prepared the plan, the unique way of the cross for the
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salvation of man, came down to earth took upon himself the sin of
man and died on the cross, that sinful man who accepted him as his
personal savior may be forgiven, redeemed and cleansed and saved
from eternal judgment.
This Jesus Christ has appointed us as leaders to move people from
sin to salvation, from hell to heaven, from darkness to light, from
death to life. So every Christian should admit and yield to the fact that
Leaders are like bridges.
One of the best definitions about a leader was given by Dr. Malcolm
Webber. I have the privilege of attending his seminar on leadership.
He said, A leader helps someone move from where he is now to
somewhere else. A good leader moves them forward. A bad leader
pushes them backward. Without a leader people remain where they
are (status quo), or they get scattered like sheep. A good leader guides
the people forward to a better future. A bad leader misleads people to
defeat and destruction. Satan is the worst leader. Jesus Christ is the best
leader. Hitler, Mussolini and Napoleon were bad leaders. Mahatma
Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela and George Washington
were good leaders, but not the best.
There are different ways to cross a big river and go over to the
other side. Some can swim. Others can hire a boat and a few may fly.
But the easiest and most economic way to cross is by a bridge:
Few can swim and cross the river
Some can use the boat and cross the river
Some may be able to fly and cross the river
Many can move and cross the river by bridge

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The Christian pastors and leaders are expected to function as

bridges for others to a better future. The bridge exists for people to
trample on it. The bridge does not exist for its own benefits. The bridge
is to serve as a path for people to pass over to the other side.
We Christian leaders very often forget this very basic truth.
Church members may at time insult us and treat us bad. This was done
at the Corinthian Church against the founder of the church, Apostle
Paul. But Paul in turn thanked God that he could serve as a bridge to
these people. Through his humiliation and sufferings they were blessed,
benefited and made their progress. The Travelers may not remember to
thank the bridge for the selfless service rendered. Christian leader has
to remember that Pastoral Ministry can often be an unthankful and
ungrateful vocation. A leader should not live for his self gratification
with praise and rewards. The leader should live for the corporate
good of the community. He should not get irritated when insulted or
forgotten.
5.1 Gift of Leadership
Often we face the question, Are leaders born or are they made?
GIFT OF LEADERSHIP
BORN
LEADER
IDEA
EARLY
CHILDHOOD
TRAINING
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SUPERNATURALLY
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LIFE
EXPERIENCES
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There are four lines of thought on this matter.

1. The born leader idea: This argument is based on genes. It is
based on the assumption that people are born with some unique traits
from parents.
2. The early childhood training idea: Some children are privileged
to get better education from childhood.
3. The supernatural gifted idea: Some people are blessed with some
divine gifts and abilities.
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4. The life experience idea: This is based on the fact that many
have become great leaders though they did not have any of the above
privileges. These people have come to leadership positions because of
their life experiences.
The balanced conclusion may be that Leaders have come up
as a mixture of all these factors. By Supernatural Gift, we can do
better. Experience is the best teacher it is said. Experience is
good. Man learns from his own mistakes. God has allowed me to
be a leader in different places and organizations. However, when
I look back, I can say, I have learnt from my errors as a leader. I
will be a better leader because the Lord has taught me from my own
mistakes.
I know of people of whom it was said, He is a born leader. When
we see some children, we comment with excitement, he is a born
leader. But we all will agree on the real truth. A born leader cannot
become a leader if he is not given education and if he is not exposed
to experience. I know of many children who were born leaders, but
never made it as leaders because they did not get the opportunity for
that.
To the leaders here is a challenge. Please be open to the potential
you see in your followers. Do not be hesitant or threatened in helping
them to develop their leadership qualities. Be committed to raise
leaders who will ultimately become better and greater than you.
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everyone is a leader
Everyone leads at certain times though he may not be a leader

all the time and in every situation. For example the father in the
home may be only a clerk in the office where he works. But back
at home he is the leader of the family. Another person may be
a student in the college but serving as a football coach leading
the team of players to success. This book is written with the goal
that each leader should be able to perform better in his respective
leadership position, though he may be a manager in certain other
spheres.
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5.2 Vision of an Exemplary Leader
There are five fundamental qualities found in an ideal and successful

leader.
1. He sees the vision: They look into far future and see what others
do not see. They are pioneers. They seek change. They face oppositions
and criticisms. They take risk. They are visionaries. Jesus was a great
visionary (Matt 24:14; John 17:2122).
2. He shares the vision: They communicate the vision passionately to
others and capture their hearts. Leaders buy others into their dreams
for the future.
3. He shows the vision: Leaders Modelling. Act as models and
not just instructing (1 Cor. 11:1; Phil. 3:17; Heb. 13:7; 1 Thess. 1:6;
2 Thes. 3:79; 1 Cor. 4:16; 1 Pet. 2:2123; 1 Tim. 4:12; 2 Tim. 1:13;
Titus 2:7; Heb. 6:12).
4. He shifts the vision: They become sold out to the vision and
start talking WE influencing and persuading others into his team.
He is no longer a lone visionary. He has become a team player. He
does this by empowerment, giving responsibility with authority and
encouragement. Responsibility without authority brings frustration.
The team members become the owners of the vision. They no longer
talk of HE when sharing the vision. But they say WE or even I.
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5. He sustains the vision: Keep focus. Avoid distractions. Keep

the fire burning. Strengthen the hearts of the followers (team)
(2 Cor 4:1618; Gal. 6:9; 1 Peter 1:37; 2 Cor 7: 34; Acts 26:1922).
Affirm. Appreciate publicly.
In 1979 the Lord burdened me with a vision to reach the unreached
peoples with the Gospel and to plant churches where churches did not
exist. I was alone. God was on my side. He was my partner. I shared
this vision to people. Many of them were convinced. They joined me.
In this manner the New Ministry was started. After transferring
this vision, I worked hard to sustain this vision as long as I continued
as the director of this organization. With annual conferences and
mission seminars I was able to sustain the vision in our orphanages and
visionary training centers. I do thank my God for the results. During
those years, most of the orphans raised in the orphanages volunteered
to go to Bible colleges. Most of these Bible graduates ventured into the
pioneer mission fields.
5.3 Five Practices of an Exemplary Leader

Practice
What leader does
His action
related to vision
His
action related
people
fire starters
dreams and sees

visions of future
sees vision
clearly see their

potential and
purpose
fire starters
shares the vision

clearly, they see
it and passionately
own it
shares vision
engage their
hearts with the
vision of their
own future
fire starters
builds a team who

owns the vision
shows vision
build teams and

make it happen
fire starters
personally a model,
lives the vision and
shows he wins
shifts vision
build credibility
and show how it
works
fire starters
encourages,
keep focussed,
appreciates,
celebrates
sustains vision
strengthen,
encourage,
continue to act
vision to pass on
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Make them owners of your vision
Authority
Resposibility
Authority
Resposibility
Give power
away
Decision
making
Building
competence
Authority
Resposibility
Authority
Resposibility
Authority
Resposibility
Authority
Resposibility
Assigning
critical task
Visible
support
Trust
people
Give
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VISION
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1. Give power away: A candle loses nothing when it lights others.

Only insecure people hold on to power. Secured in his will you will
have no fear in the rise of others.
2. Provide decisionmaking authority: Responsibility without
authority will be frustrating.
3. Develop competence: Send for training, refresher course and
seminars. Make them fit for the fast-changing society with all its
findings and developments.
4. Assign critical tasks: Tasks that will challenge them to wake up and
find new ideas and plans.
5. Offer visible support: Assure that you are behind them and
appreciate them at every step of the progress.
6. Believe in your people: Cheer them, You can do it.
7. Stretch them: Give challenging assignments.
If you give them jobs that are far below their capacity, that will
be monotonous and boring for them. If you give them assignments
far above their ability, they will be nervous, scared and intimidated.
So give them responsibilities that are just right, to challenge them and

little higher than what they can do. Look at the diagram showing the
right assignment level:
Right level of assignment
Too high to reach
Frustraon
The right assignment

Perceived capacity
Boring
Perceived capacity
Too low
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What Christian leaders know
1. know that the ultimate purpose of the organization is to give glory

to God through serving Jesus Christ
2. know
(i) There is a tension between depending on God and depending
on oneself.
(ii) There is tension between following well-laid plans and
following the leading of the Holy Spirit.
(iii) This tension is never resolved. What they are dealing with is
greater than themselves.
3. know regardless of what happens, success or failure, God is at work
doing his will.
5.5 Quality of a Leader
1. A good leader has a vision. He set direction and goals to fulfilll

that vision. He is focussed and he has undying passion to
complete the task.
2. A good leader keeps a cool head, does not yield to his emotions,
does not get discourage when majority oppose if things go
wrong.
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3. A good leader loves and cares for his followers. But he is strict
in discipline and with timely rebuke and correction.
4. A good leader transfers his vision to followers, persuades them
into his team and then cooperates with them as a team player
for the corporate good.
5. A good leader is committed to excellence. He is a provider to
the followers to enable them to operate well and achieve the
goal. He gives them opportunity to get contemporary training
and exposes them to up-to-date or current ideas and training.
6. A good leader gives priority to integrity above ambition. He
maintains a commendable character that is above any reproach.
7. Good leaders are always teachable. Good leader does not seize
control. But accepts surrendering control.
5.6 Faces of Leadership

5.6.1 Nurturer
Like giving tender care to a farm until the farm produces fruit. This
involves patient, careful and timely tilling of the hard ground, fertilizing
the soil, sowing the seeds, watering the plants, weeding off tares and
waiting for the harvest.
5.6.2 Mentor
Like older physician surrounded by young doctors (discipling).
5.6.3 Administrator
They see the broad picture and know the art of delegation. Cant do
all this alone. So they delegate, coordinate and supervise. He is a team
player.
5.6.4 Instructor
Theories (principles) and practice.
5.6.5 Authority
Rightful power. Exercises authority when required.
5.6.6 Dictator
This kind of leader does not invite or welcome advice or counsel. At
times he may solicit advice as a manipulative move to implement his
preconceived plan.
5.7 Empowerment of Leaders
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appointing and empowering future leaders.
1. He should look after the congregation. Set a man above
the congregation (v. 16). Leader is the supervisor. He is the
caretaker. He is above the people.
2. He should lead from the frontline (e.g. Battlefield) who may
go out before them (v. 17). A leader cannot lead anyone else
further than he had gone himself.
3. He should be the risk-taker. Go in before them (v. 17).
4. He should guide them to a better future. Bring them in (v. 17).
5. He should unite them and keep them united. Not to be like
sheep which have no shepherd (v. 17).
6. He should be filled with the Spirit of God. A man in whom is
the spirit (v. 18).
7. He should be publicly inaugurated, declared and dedicated.
Lay your hand upon him, set him before Eleazar the priest
and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their
sight (v .19).
8. He should be empowered. Leader should transfer (bestow)
some of his powers and authority upon him. And you shall
give some of your authority to him that all congregation of
Israel may be obedient to him (v. 20).
When you attempt to raise your disciple as a future leader, you have to
be careful in formally announcing it to the congregation (staff, church)
and then give away some of your powers to him to function and fulfilll
his responsibilities. Giving position and responsibility without giving
authority will discourage and ultimately frustrate the man.
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Leaders Lead?
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In Matthew 9:3638 Jesus Christ the greatest leader compared the

Christian leader to a shepherdlaborer. A shepherd has three main
responsibilities :
A shepherd Leads the sheep.
A shepherd Feeds the sheep.
A shepherd Guards the sheep.
5.8.1 There are two kinds of shepherdsowner

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They know each sheep by name. The sheep know the voice of the
shepherd. The shepherd goes in front. The sheep follow the shepherd.
The owner shepherd does not run away when the sheep is in danger of
wild animals or thieves. He is ready to lay down his life for the sheep.
John chapter 10 gives the beautiful portrait of the owner shepherd.
Jesus is the best example for this. He is the good shepherd. A good
shepherd has three responsibilities : leading, feeding and guarding
5.8.2 Hireling shepherds
They are employed to look after the sheep. They serve for salary. They
do not love the sheep, therefore do not know them by name. They will
not lead from the front, but will drive the sheep from behind. They will
run away when dangers come and will leave the sheep to starve. They
will not tend the sheep when they are sick.
This contrast between the owner shepherd and hireling shepherd
is the real picture of contrast between a good leader and a bad leader. A
leader cannot lead the people beyond his level and standard. He should
go ahead first as an example for others to follow. There are pastors who
do not tithe and expect the church members to tithe. There are leaders
who do not pray or read the Bible. But they expect church members
to do these.
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The hireling shepherds are those leaders and employees in the

church who are serving the church for their salary, material gain and
selfish interest. They serve their belly. They serve God on contract
basis and not on love basis. This is clear when the master of the
harvest looked for laborers in the market place (Matt. 20:116). The
first groups of people were ready to work for the master on the basis of
a contract of one denarius a day. But the last group called at the 11th
hour were willing to work without any expectation of wages. They were
willing to work on the basis of love. Apostle Paul served the Lord on
love basis and not on contract basis. He wrote, The love of Christ
constrains me (2 Cor. 5:14).
When you serve God and the church basically for money and
some income, that becomes a job for you. But if you serve the Lord
compelled by His love and persuaded by your love for the church God
gave you, that is a Ministry for you.
Anyone seeking a place in an established set up with the main
goal of selfish gain and lucrative salary that ministry has become a job
for him. It is sad that the majority of the Bible graduates in India seek
job after their graduation. I have heard of the phrase let us hire a
pastor for our church in some parts of the world. I was shocked at first
at this usage and even now I do not grasp the scriptural basis for this.
God is looking for graduates from Bible colleges to get the vision
for perishing millions that live in the remote regions of our country.
God is looking for young men and women who will launch out into
the deep in faith, trusting the Lord for their daily needs and ministerial
needs. Where there is no vision people perish says the Bible. Vision
makes the man a leader. Vision enables the man to venture for new
things. Job holders cannot be visionaries. They are managers. They are
afraid of change. They love their comfort zones. They do not want to
take risks.
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5.8.3 A good leader efficiently leads, caring and

covering the people all around
5.8.3.1 Leader in the front: He has the vision. He asks people

to follow him as he follows God. He leads because of his vision
into the future. People follow, trusting the leader-shepherd, though
they do not see the whole future. This is leader calling. This is leader
communicating. This is leader challenging.
5.8.3.2 Leader behind: Good shepherd stands behind always ready to
carry the weak. He encourages from behind saying, You can do it.
This is leader cheering.
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5.8.3.3 Leader beside: Watch me. This the way to do it. This is the
path. I am with you. You are not alone. This is leader comforting. This
is leader correcting. This is a leader mentoring. He is with them. He is
a very present help in times of need. This on the job training.
5.9 Factors That Make a Leader
1. Have a realistic vision

Write the vision
Share the vision
Able to explain to the group, what are the goals, the purpose of
goals and what can be done to achieve them.
2. Ability to bind faith with facts and inspire people to do actions
of faith.
3. Ability to direct, lead, challenge the group to effectiveness.
4. Ability to identify, tap and include to the resources anything
that is new, such as a new idea, new methods, new possibilities.
5. Ability to find, create new openings and to motivate the group
to accomplish the set goals.
6. Having an ambition to achieve great things and a desire to
change.
7. Willingness to learn that it can change his personality-traits
and outlook on style.
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8. A person who regularly evaluate his weak and strong points of

his abilities.
9. A person who is willing to accept criticism and correct his
ways or strengthen/develop weaknesses.
10. Ability to bring out practical ideas to implement his visions
and creativity into reality.
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Study Guide
1. Make an account for the leadership qualities of Jesus Christ to
show that he is the greatest leader of all times.
2. Explain, leaders are like bridges.
3. Name the four gifts of leadership. Explain why life-experience

leadership is the best.
4. The five fundamental qualities found in a successful leader are
b) ..............................
d) ..............................
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c) ................................
e) ................................
5. Chart out the five practices of an exemplary leader.

Practices
What leader
does
His action
on his vision
His action
related to
people
6. Name the 7 factors of shifting the vision.

7. How do you explain the right level of assignment.
8. In the quality of a good leader
A good leader .......................
A good leader ..........................
A good leader .......................
A good leader .......................
A good leader .......................
A good leader .......................
A good leader .......................

9. In the faces of leadership.
A leader is a ................................ an ..................................

a ................................ an ..................................
a ................................ an ..................................

10. State at least 5 instructions given in the Scripture about empowering
future leaders.
11. A Christian leader is a shepherdlaborer.
A shepherd ..........................................
A shepherd ..........................................
A shepherd ..........................................
12. Bring out the differences between owner shepherds and hireling
shepherds.
13. A good leader is a leader in the front, leader behind and leader
beside. Give the significances of these three expressions.
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Chapter 6
BIBLICAL LEADERS
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(Lesson on Leadership from Bible Characters)
It is impossible to deal in detail the leadership qualities of all the leaders

in the Bible. It is difficult to elaborate the leadership style of the leaders
in this small volume. However, I am listing and briefly commenting
some highlights in the leadership qualities of some of the great leaders
of Bible times.
6.1 Noah (Gen. 69)
Noah lived in the days of terrible sins of corruption and violence. God
intended to judge humanity by flood; an incident when the whole earth
was covered under water which never happened in the past. There were
no signs of rains. But God asked Noah to build an ark for the safety
of those who would go in. To obey this direction seemed so foolish.
Noah faced much ridicule from the people. He worked on the boat for
long time. He was in the minority, a lone man. But he obeyed Gods
instruction 100 percent (Gen. 7). He was an exemplary leader:
1. He was a man of visionGod called him and entrusted him
with a job.
2. He obeyed God even when he did not fully understand the
wisdom of it.
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He stood alone firmly against peer pressure.
He took the risk and faced the ridicule.
He believed the impossible.
He was patient. He did not hurry. He did not question the
delay.
7. He was persistent until the task was completed.
8. He had calling, character and competency.
9. His desire was to obey and please Him.
10. He did not become anxious about his future.
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It was written about Noah, Thus Noah did; according to all that
God commanded him, so he did (Gen. 7:22). This is ideal Godly
leadership.
6.2 Abraham (Gen. 1224)
Abraham was one of the greatest leaders in history. He was called the
friend of God. He became the father of many nations. In typology,
Abraham is the pioneer of missions. Those who are of faith are called
the sons of Abraham (Gen. 3:7). What raised Abraham to such heights
of leadership?
1. He trusted God and obeyed his call against all reason and
logic. He left the comfort zone and secure place. Ur of the
Chaldeans where he lived for so long.
2. He took great risk not knowing where he was going.
3. He withstood all public opinions.
4. He chose the second best and allowed Lot to choose the best.
5. He made choice between something he loved and something
he loved most. He chose Sarah against Hagar. He chose Isaac
against Ishmael.
6. He trusted God to deliver him a son even when his wife was
barren.
7. He was ready to sacrifice his son Isaac, believing God would
give him back out of the ashes.
8. Abraham lived as a stranger/alien/pilgrim on earth recognizing
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6.3 Moses
that his citizenship was in heaven, a city with foundation

whose architect and builder was God (Heb. 11:810;
Phil. 3:20).
9. Abraham was courageous. To rescue his nephew Lot and his
family, Abraham fought against strong enemies. Lot could
count on him, though they had parted their ways. Abraham
was dependable.
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6.3.1 He was the meekest man on the face of the earth

(Num. 12:3)
Godly leadership demands humility. Spiritual leadership is servant
leadership shown clearly in Jesus leadership style.
6.3.2 He was a man with a vision (Exod. 3:110)

At the burning bush vision, the Lord showed him the desperate
situation of Israel. God showed him the future of Jews when Moses
obeyed God by faith. The bush was burning but not consumed. God
taught him the lesson that Jews would be under the fire of enemies but
they could never be extinct.
6.3.3 He believed God and took a multi-faced decision

in implicit obedience (Heb. 11:2428)
I. He rejected the worlds prestige (v. 24)refused to be called
the son of Pharaohs daughter.
II. He refused the worlds pleasure (v. 25)to enjoy passing
pleasures of sin. . .
III. He renounced the worlds plenty (v. 26)then the treasures
in Egypt. . .
IV. He repelled the worlds pressure (v. 27)not fearing the
wrath of the King. . .
V. He chose the afflictions of Gods people (v. 25)choosing
rather to suffer the affliction with the people of God.

VI. He accepted the reproach of Christ (v. 26)esteeming the
reproach of Christ....
VII. He obeyed risking his life. (v. 27). . .not fearing the wrath
of the king...
VIII.He endured patiently for the invisible (v. 27)endured as
seeing him who is invisible.
IX. He refused the redemptive provision (v. 28)By faith he
kept the Passover.
6.3.4 Moses overcame personal ambition
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Moses overcame personal ambition and lived for the corporate welfare
of the people of God. This is clearly depicted in Exodus chapter 32.
When Israel committed sin of Idolatry. God became angry and He
announced that He would destroy them and make Moses a great nation
instead. But Moses did not yield to this temptation of selfish ambition.
He loved Israel so much that he cried to God. Please forgive their sin. . .
If not I pray, blot me out of your book, which you have written
(v. 32). Moses loved his people more than his own life. He lived for the
corporate good. He sacrificed all his personal comforts and privileges
for the sake of his people.
6.3.5 Moses did not yield to the temptation of jealousy

(Num. 11:2630)
Two young men Eldad and Medad began to prophesy. Until then Moses
was the only person who had the calling and privilege to prophesy.
When this incident was reported to Moses, he did not become jealous
about someone else taking his place and profession. Rather he rejoiced
and wished more people to become prophets. This is a great lesson for
all Christian leaders. How often we see Christian leaders who tend
to be monopolists on pulpits, administration and leadership. They are
intimidated when younger people rise up with the same talents or even
better abilities. It is a serious sin among Christian leaders that hinder
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the growth and development of leadership qualities and opportunities

of younger people.
6.3.6 Moses overcame the temptation of revenge

(Num. 12:116)
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Miriam the sister of Moses began to speak against Moses and his
leadership. Aaron also joined her in the venomous attack. God was
kindled with anger and Miriam was punished by leprosy. Aaron
pleaded to Moses that he may pray and get the healing of Miriam
from God. Moses could have easily rejected that request. He could
have answered, You and Miriam have spoken against me. Therefore
she deserves this punishment. Let her suffer till her death. She ought
to reap what she has sown. But Moses did not have any desire for
vengeance or retaliation. He forgave her and Aaron. He prayed to God.
Miriam was healed.
When you are in leadership position, there will be times when
some of the followers may stand against you, speak against you, write
against you and plot for your downfall. But you should not become the
victim of irritation, offence and revenge. In the love of God and for the
sake of the corporate welfare you should forgive and even pray for those
who insult you and oppose you.
6.3.7 Moses followed the instructions of God wholeheartedly (Exod. 3640)

Moses followed the instructions of God wholeheartedly and fully in the
building of the Tabernacle. He could have easily made some changes
that might look better in his own eyes. But we see many repetitions of
the fact, And Moses did according to the commandment of the Lord.
The beautiful result was that the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle
when that was completed and dedicated.
We ought to learn a precious lesson from this implicit obedience
of Moses. As builders, church planters, pastors and leaders we are
to be careful in following wholeheartedly the Word of God and its
instructions. We should not bring in any traditions, customs, practices

and opinions from the world while planting and developing the local
churches and Christian organizations. It is sad that many leaders build
churches with a mixture of Bible and also traditions, rituals, ceremonies
and practices that are not biblical.
6.4 Nehemiah
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A recent study of the life of Nehemiah blessed my heart so much.

Among various lessons I learnt from the book of Nehemiah, the top
most was the leadership qualities of this man of God.
Nehemiah was living a complacent life in the palace of Shushan
holding the important job as the cupbearer of the king. When he heard
about the deplorable situation of Jerusalem and the people of Israel
living in that city, his heart was moved with compassion. He left the
comfort zone of the palace and set out to build the walls of the city.
The people living in the city were not at all interested in rebuilding it.
But Nehemiah was able to communicate to them his vision and then
persuade them to join him in the great task of building the walls of
Jerusalem. He faced many obstacles, enemies and threats. He faced
much opposition from the people of God and ridicule from outside.
He was blackmailed. In spite of all these oppositions, Nehemiah risked
his life for the cause he believed in and sacrificed all to complete the
job. Amazingly in 52 days he was able to celebrate the completion of
his task.
In this study on leadership, therefore, I am persuaded in the Spirit
to portray in some detail the leadership style of Nehemiah.
6.4.1 Look at the book of Nehemiah
1. The book covers important lessons on the building of Gods

church.
2. Nehemiah exhibits several qualities of Spiritual Leadership.
3. The book contains many principles of administration and
management.
4. The book talks of the balance between organizing and
agonizing.
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5. The book tells how to face the ruins, how to face the enemy
and how to face God.
6.4.2 Nehemiah as the leader
1. The Cupbearer (chapters 12): He used his position to

influence the heathen king to favor the people of God.
2. The wall builder (chapters 36): He showed his leadership as
a great organizer and unifier.
3. The governor (chapters 713): He proved himself as a great
administrator.
6.4.3 Qualities of leadership
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1. Man of vision. He was able to see what God could do to a

desolate city (Chapter 1).
2. Man of compassion, passion and tears (Chapter 2).
3. Man of delegation. Able to transfer the vision to others and
they followed his vision (Chapter 3).
4. Man of team playing. Get others involved. Cooperation.
5. Man of conviction, determination and without compromise.
(2:20)
6. Man of confidence and assurance (4:14, 8:910).
7. Man of selfless sacrifice and simple living (5:1418).
8. Man of faith (4:1623).
9. Man of courage: His brave reactions to the enemies. Never
afraid.
Man of prayerInstant, constant, sentence prayers;
telegraphic prayers (1:411, 2:4, 4:4,5, 5:19, 6:9, 6:14,
9:538, 13:14, 13:22, 13:29, 13:31).
A leader by faith is able to see what others cannot see into the future.
He sees what God could do, even things that are impossible. Then he
is able to share this vision to others that were careless and indifferent.
Then they follow this leader and the vision of the leader becomes
Our Vision and our work. Nehemiah was able to motivate and
divide the people into 42 active groups. He was able to recruit people
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from all walks of life including sons, daughters, doctors, blacksmiths,

goldsmiths, carpenters, masons, artisans, and embroidery workers,
poor and rich. He gave opportunities to the ones who were even
backslidden, by giving them a second chance and a third chance.
A leader sees the potential in everyone and knows how to tap the
resources. He knows how to match the talents with the tasks.
Let us look into chapters 17
Nehemiah prays for the workHe prayed in tears and wept when
he heard the plight of Jerusalem and the people there (chapter 1). We
see him as a man of prayer in prayer step and detail of the work.
Nehemiah prepares for the workHe gets permission from the
king to go to Jerusalem and do the work (chapter 2).
Nehemiah prospers in the work (chapter 3). He was able to persuade
people to join the work. He efficiently coordinated and allotted the
work according to their talents and abilities.
Nehemiah faces the enemy (chapters 46). He had to face two
kinds of enemiesinternal and external. The Jews who were living in
Jerusalem for many years without any concern for the wall construction
accused Nehemiah of wrong motive and criticized him for his zeal.
Some of them refused to give a helping hand. The heathens around
threatened him with attack and also mocked him.
Nehemiah completes the work (chapter 7). Nehemiah sustained his
vision of completing the wall and finishing the work God called him
to do.
6.4.4 Nehemiah receives the vision (chapter 1)

Verses 13:The report received: Though he was in the comfort of the
palace in a foreign land, Nehemiah never forgot Gods people. He was
always thinking of their welfare. He took time to listen to the report
of his cousin about Jerusalem. Moses also is another beautiful example
for this. If God had placed you in an important, influential position
and job, please do not forget the people of God and their sufferings.
Use your position and influence for the protection, preservation and
progress of the people of God. Esther is another example of this.
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We need to pray that Christians in high places in the government

and public places should stand up and speak for God and his people in
our country. It is sad to see the Christian politicians, businessmen and
leaders feeling shy to identify with Gods people.
We should not be conformed to this world and its system and
values. We need people of conviction and courage in our country
where Christians are in minority.
When Nehemiah heard the report on the sad plight of Jerusalem,
three things happened to him which are also the three basic factors
required for evangelism, church planting and the kingdom work and
leadership.
informed mindHe heard and understood the need (vv. 12)
(mind).
burdened heartWept, fasted & prayed (vv. 34) (emotion).
obedienceVolunteered to go and help (v. 5) (will).
mind, emotion and will are the three factors affected in all major
decisions. This is true in salvation also. It is also in obedience to the call
for Mission. This is true on matters of ideal leadership.
The three inevitable key words for a Missionary (Servant of God)
are: look, weep and go. We have to read, hear and understand the
needs of the mission field, of the place, of the church. Missionary
vision comes after mission information. Where there is no missionary
information there will be no missionary involvement. Take time to
explore, read and know the details of the need in a given place, of a give
tribe and tongue or church where you are going as a pastor. Jesus said,
Lift up your eyes and look to the fields ... this would make us WEEP
just as it did to JEREMIAH, NEHEMIAH, JESUS, PAUL and others.
When the need becomes our passion, then we become ready to GO
and help. In Christian leadership this is our assignment.
Verses 511:
The response/the repentence
Nehemiah the leader saw three important things here:

1. He heard (saw) the ruins. He saw and felt the magnitude of the
destruction and need.

2. He saw his inadequacy. He saw how insignificant and feeble he
was to meet this need.
3. He saw his God. He saw his God as big and able to meet every
need.
6.4.5.1 Repentence (v. 67)
6.4.5 Nehemiah the leaders response involved two

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Though he himself did not commit sin, he identified with the people
and acknowledged the collective sin of the people of God. He cried to
God for himself and on behalf of the people of God. How long did
he weep? (1:1 compare 2:1) Month of Chislieu to month of Nisan =
November to March, four months!!!! This was a long season of heart
searching, brokenness, confession of sins and claiming and pleading
for Gods help. Revival surely comes when we seek God like that
(2 Chr. 7:14). God is looking for spiritual leaders like Nehemiah who
identify with the people and plead for their welfare.
6.4.5.2 Request made (v. 5, 811)
Nehemiah placed Gods name above every name (v. 5).
Nehemiah claimed Gods promises for his people (v. 89).
Nehemiah remembered and listed the past gracious dealings
of God (v.10).
Nehemiah sought from God courage and power for the
volunteers (v. 11).
6.4.5.3 Nehemiah obeys the vision (chapter 11)
We have already noted that Nehemiah waited for four
months before facing the king.
He was waiting upon God. He was weeping, fasting and
praying. Why?
He waited until the need became his passion.
He waited for the growth of conviction and confirmation
of calling.
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He waited carefully planning to give the king the list of

requests.
Do not jump into Gods work because of an emotional feeling or by
the influence of any person. Count the cost. Ask God to deepen the
conviction or remove it altogether, if that is not from God.
6.4.6 Nehemiah faces the king (vv. 18)
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He risked his life by going to the king with a sad face (v.1). The
cupbearer had to have a happy countenance. However, he could not be
happy because his heart was breaking at the situation of Gods people
and Jerusalem. So, he did not count his life dear to him. Rather, he
gave more importance for the welfare of the people of God.
Queen Esther is a sublime example for this. She was not expected
to face the king. She should not go if she was not called by the king.
But she risked her life by going. For her, the protection of the people
of God was greater than the security of her own life. Let us not forget
about the great missionaries who endangered their lives in the mission
fields and many of them died in the mission fields. Let us not forget the
examples of thousands who stood firm for the church of Jesus Christ
and were killed by communists and religious fanatics. Leaders risk their
lives for the cause they believe in and for the people they serve.
6.4.7 Three questions from a faithful and successful

leader
6.4.7.1 Why my face should not be sad? (v. 2)
This was the question Nehemiah gave to the king in answer to the
kings question, Why are you having a sad face? This answer (as
implied in the counter question) from Nehemiah signifies the Passion,
Compassion, Broken heart and burden of Nehemiah for the people of
God. The question implies that a child of God should be sad when the
people of God are under stress, persecution, danger and desolation.
Jeremiah, Paul and Jesus are great examples of this kind of compassion,
when they saw the dark and dangerous situation of Gods people.
Each of them did weep. John Knox of Scotland is just one among the
millions of examples of great passion for the people of God. Give me
Scotland, or I die was his plea to God. A faithful servant of God will
have such compassion and passion by which he would have something
to live for and something to die for. Nothing else would satisfy them.
Nothing else will give them joy. Oh, for such a passion, that we will
have a face and personality that would manifest our love and care for
the church of Jesus Christ!!! We need such pastors and leaders.
6.4.7.2 Why should the work cease while I leave it and come to you?
(6:3)
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When Sanballat and Tobiah failed in discouraging Nehemiah in the

construction of the walls, they used the weapon of compromise. They
invited Nehemiah to go down to the valley of Ono and consult with
them about plans to construct the walls!! This was a plot to distract
Nehemiah and also to lower his standards in the construction of the
walls.
The world will always try to attract us with compromises, asking
us to lower our principles and biblical standards. It was then Nehemiah
answered them by this question: Should the work cease while I
leave and come to you? This was a question that declared his focus,
singleness of mind and concentration on the one thing and that is the
building of the walls. He avoided every distraction and diversion. A
servant of God should be steadfast in the work entrusted by God. He
should not get side-tracked whatever the difficulties, oppositions or
promising invitations of the world are.
There should be no side-tracking. We should keep on in our
calling, whatever the difficulties, oppositions and invitations of the
world with great promises are.
It is possible that our friends also may at times show us better
opportunities for good jobs and greater income when we are serving
the Lord. They may also remind us of the easier ways of doing the
work, lowering biblical principles, and take up easier roads. May the
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Lord give us strong determination and singleness of mind in the service

to which God has called us. May the Lord protect the pastors and
church leaders in getting involved in businesses that will give them
income and distract them in the ministry to which God has called.
Godly leader has focus. He is not distracted. He is committed to
a specific cause and he concentrates on that. He desires to complete
the task.
6.4.7.3 Should such a man as I flee? (6:11)
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One person who claimed to be a prophet (Hebrew) came to Nehemiah

and told of the danger he was in because of the enemies. He asked
Nehemiah to run into the temple and hide for safety. But Nehemiah
perceived that this prophecy was not correct and that he was sent by the
enemies. In fact it was not permitted for anybody to enter the temple
for he was not a priest. Nehemiah knew this. He perceived that this was
a plot to put the people of God and himself in danger.
In answer to this question, Nehemiah gave the counter question,
Should such a man as I flee? This was a firm declaration of courage
and fearlessness. Nehemiah had the assurance of Gods protection and
completion of Gods work.
When enemies come and oppositions get strong, a servant of God
can be courageous if he knows that God has called him, that God will
surely give victory and that God will enable him to complete the task.
As a result of this determination of Nehemiah, the cupbearer
became the governor and ruled the people of God in Jerusalem for 12
years (2:1 compare 13:6, 5:14).
A leader has courage. He is not intimidated. The courage and
confidence of a Godly leader comes from his dependence upon his
God. He reminds himself that his vision is from God. He knows he is
in the will of God. He has the assurance of Gods promise. He has the
confidence that God will help him to complete the task.
6.4.7.4 The three request of Nehemiah to the king
1. send me (2:5): He wanted to be sure that he was sent by the king! A

servant of God must be sure that God has called and sent him/her for
the specific work (John 20:21). Choosing by the church or the results
of an election (vote) will not be enough.
2. sustain me (2:7) (Convey me, protect me): A servant of God should
be sure that he is safe in the will of God. This gives him courage in the
midst of dangers and attacks.
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3. supply me (2:8)(Provide me): Nehemiah wanted to be sure that he

would be supplied of all his needs and requirements for the building
of the walls. A servant of God should have the assurance that God will
supply all his needs (Phil. 4:19). The servant of God who is in the work
and place where God asked him to be, will be supplied (1 Kings 17:17).
Elijah was provided by God because Elijah obeyed God and went to
the place where God asked him to go!! Our God is the supplier of
all provisionsPhysical, mental and spiritual; supply of grace, power,
wisdom and discernment.
The three assurances that a servant of God needs: i am sent,
i am safe, i am supplied. These three assurances give a missionary
confidence in every hard situation and against all attacks.
6.4.8 Nehemiah faces the ruins (vv. 816)
Here we see three essentials for Christian service and effective leadership.
6.4.8.1 Investigation
For three days Nehemiah spent time in going around and looking at
all the ruins and destructions of the city and the walls and gates. When
all others were sleeping, Nehemiah got up at midnight and did the
research and investigation. He did not tell the rulers and leaders and he
did not take anybody with him. In the work of God, there is an area
where nobody can go with you to the extent you are ready to go. You
ought always be one step further than all others, as the Lord convicts
and leads you. At times he had to get down from the animal that he
was riding on because of the rubbish on the path had made the roads
smaller and narrower under the gates. These sights must have broken
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6.4.8.2 Delegation (v. 1718)
the heart of Nehemiah all the more. A servant of God needs to come
to this point where he explores and grasps: the depth of the ruin,
the strength of the enemy and the inadequacy of self. We can
always claim the presence of God and ask him to fight the battle for us.
Joshua also had to do the same as he was going around the fortressed
city of Jericho for seven days. He knew very well that the victory was
not guaranteed by his ability or by his army, but only by the powerful
intervention of God.
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A good leader is the one who sees the vision and then transfers that
vision to others and convinces them until they also join hands with
the leader and say our vision our work, our project, our plans and
our victory. One man alone cannot handle all the works and make
it these succeed. No one can do everything, but can do one thing
of the many works and bring it to completion. Gods work requires
team effort. It is not a one man show. A successful leader who sees
the vision excels in delegation. He shares, recruits them and then
distributes responsibilities (job descriptions). Nehemiah was able to
challenge, inspire and get the services of people from all walks of life.
There were doctors, engineers, carpenters, masons, sons, daughters,
priests and even people who were backsliders and indifferent before. A
leader, pastor, missionary should be able and willing to give vision to
backsliders and then give them a second chance and a third chance!!!
6.4.8.3 Determination (v. 1820)
Nehemiah was successful in uniting the people and giving them the
passion to rise up and build. Then the enemies got furious and started
ridiculing and threatening. Then Nehemiah encouraged the people
and also challenged the enemy by saying:
This work we do is gods work (Gracious hand of God in
this work) 2:8,18
The work we are involved in is good work 2:18
The work God called us to is great work 6:3
These three assurances make us confident in every difficult

situation. This enables us to get more people to join us. While facing
the enemy Nehemiah declared three facts:
1. He tells of Godhe will prosper us.
2. He tells of themselveswe are his servants and we will
build.
3. He tells of the enemyyou have no part in this. No
compromise.
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We do not need the help, contributions and donations of unGodly

people to build the kingdom of God. We do not need to follow worldly
practices to raise funds for the projects and programs of the church of
Jesus Christ.
6.4.9 Nehemiah faces the enemy
In chapters 27, we see various tactics of the enemy. Each of those

tactics are used by Satan even now to discourage the servants of God, to
slow down the ministry and to stop the progress of the kingdom work.
Some of the attacks come from outside (external enemy) and some
come from within the church (internal).
In non-Christian lands external enemies will be strong and they
bring actual physical persecution, torture, imprisonment and even
death: But in places like USA, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, Kerala
state where Christians are many, strong and piercing attacks do come
often from the so-called Christians because of jealousy, fight and
disunity. Let me list some of them and add brief comments:
6.4.9.1 Ridicule (2:19, 4:13)
When enemies are helpless and they know we are serious they often
look for opportunities to mock and tell jokes about our calling and
vocation.
It is true that the world mocks at us because we walk by faith and
not by sight. They also do ridicule us about the seeming foolishness of
the cross, the death of Christ and also peaceful, quiet methods we use
for facing the strong enemy, Satan and his hosts.
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6.4.9.2 Discouragement (4:10)
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The people of God began to get discouraged because there was

much rubbish to be removed, before building the walls. So much
of trash was in big heaps in many places. To dig down and
remove them was a hard task and would take a long time. Some
people may have even suggested building the walls on the rubbish!
But the walls would never be strong, if we build on rubbish. Many
mainline churches are building their denominations on the rubbish
of traditions, customs, myths, superstitions and opinions of man,
like Roman Catholics. Many cults are building their sects on extrabiblical revelations like 7th day Adventism, Jehovah Witness and the
Mormons.
Many Christians build their theology on the visions and sayings
of their founders and leaders. Innocent and ignorant evangelical
Christians become easy prey to their false doctrines and are overcome
by cultist teachings and extremist views. They give importance to their
subjective experiences and reject the objective truths revealed in
the Holy Bible. If we are not careful, these peculiar teachings and the
proponents of those peculiar doctrines infiltrate into our churches.
As church planters, pastors and theologians it is our duty to do the
clean up work before building. breaking before construction is
inevitable. For a strong foundation we have to dig deep, remove the
rubbish and then build with stones. This is a great challenge to all
pastors, educators, leaders and missionaries of evangelical Christianity.
Anything that is unbiblical, anything that is tradition must be thrown
away.
Some translations use the term rubbles in place of rubbish. Even
if that is a correct translation, the application is the same. Any rocks,
stones that are just useless rubbles must be taken out and thrown away.
As faithful servants of God let us build the church of Jesus Christ
with biblical Theology alone. Let us be determined to flee away from
traditions, customs, rituals and practices that are unbiblical.

6.4.9.3 Conspiracy (4:711)
The enemies united together and conspired to attack. Nehemiah
responded by praying to God and trusting him for protection. The
people prayed to God, worked with one hand and held their weapon
in the other. This is a beautiful picture of Christian life, Christian
ministry and Christian warfare (Eph. 6:1017).
6.4.9.4 Laziness (3:5, Indifference)
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Most of the people and the nobles were not concerned about the broken
walls or the despised situation of Jewish nation. They attended to their
own personal and domestic needs and comforts. They had no time
for the common good of the people. This indeed is the sad situation
of the majority of Christians. It is reported that only about 2 percent
of Christians are involved in active evangelism. Only about 2 percent
gives tithes and sacrificial contributions to the work of the Lord. It is
also stated that 80 percent of the evangelistic and Christian services are
concentrated on already evangelized areas. The church needs a revival.
We need to wake up from our sleep and laziness and get involved in the
work of God. We have more Spectators than participators.
6.4.9.5 Internal Strife (5:15)
The rulers and nobles treated the general public and ordinary people
cruelly and without any consideration for their welfare. The rich people
gave out the money on usury and made themselves richer while
others became poorer.
The leaders and nobles took the lands of the poor on mortgage
to provide the food money. This was injustice. Nehemiah rebuked
the rich and the privileged class. Nehemiah showed a good example
by living simple life and not taking any bribery or demanding special
service from the public.
A servant of God has to be bold in speaking against such injustice
among the people of God. We need to bring unity among them.
We have to change them by showing good example. Pastors and
missionaries and Christian leaders should strive for this.
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6.4.9.6 Compromise (6:14)
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Sanballat and Tobiah invited Nehemiah four times, to leave his work
and come down to the plains of Ono for discussion: Maybe they were
inviting him to offer their hands of cooperation in the work of the Lord
or they were trying to distract Nehemiah or they wanted to propose
some unbiblical principles in the work of the Lord or they wanted him
to lower the high standards of the work of God. If he had succumbed
to this offer it would have resulted in compromising Gods principles.
As Gods chosen, peculiar people, as royal priesthood and holy
nation, we are to be separate from the worldly people and from the
worlds standards. We do not need the help and cooperation from
the unGodly for the building up of the kingdom of God. We do not
require their donations and contributions for the work of the Lord. A
servant of God must be careful to avoid the riches of the world when
they offer help, because in the long run they could become leaders in
the church and we would not be able to lead the church according
to the Bible. Many churches have become prey to motivation of the
rich.
As a result the churches have become cold, backslidden and
without vision for soul winning. They boast of their sizes, riches and
numbers. They have become like the church in Laodicea.
6.4.9.7 Slander (6:59)
The enemies accused Nehemiah that he was doing all these just to
become popular and then get elected to be the leader and king!That
he was seeking position and power! and was going to challenge the king
and rebel against the king. These were false allegations. This allegation
came when Nehemiah was in the height of progress in the work. It is
true. Accusations, allegations and slander often come against a servant
of God and when he/she is greatly used by God. God permits this to
keep his servants humble.
Slander is one subtle weapon the world uses against a servant of
God, to discourage him and to stop the work. The enemies may use

believers in the church also to join hands with them to make these
allegations. The three areas where slander can be expected:
goldOn money matters. Therefore it is good for a pastor not to
handle money of the church, but entrust two or three others to handle
the financial matters.
girlOpposite sex. Therefore it is good for a minister of the gospel

not to be alone with people of opposite sex. Be in a group always.
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gloryPosition, power and fame. When you serve God sincerely,

people can make accusations that you are seeking position
and power.
What should be our response/reaction when slander come against
us? Look at Nehemiah. He did not take time to explain or defend. He
did not take time to answer questions. He did just two things. He flatly
refused and declared that he did not seek power. Then he just asked
God to interfere and fight the battle for him.
When you are faced with false allegations and accusations
(slander), do not get discouraged. If you are innocent, just declare that.
Then ask God to intervene and defend your case. Friends may ask you
to explain, write letters and answer questions. You need not do that.
Just leave the matter to God. If you have done wrong, of course you
better confess the sin and get pardon from the Lord.
Dear servants of God, when God blesses you, the enemy (Satan)
is upset. Satan will use even believers to start gossiping against you and
even some of your friends may believe that lie. At that time follow the
example of Nehemiah: Just say it is not true. Strengthen yourself in the
Lord. Do not get discouraged. Do not take time to defend, explain and
answer questions.
6.4.9.8 Treachery (6:1014)
The enemies tried a deceptive method to mislead Nehemiah. They
convinced some Jews that Nehemiah is in danger and he should flee
into the temple with his friends and hide for safety. If he had done
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so, that would be against the rules of God and the Bible, because only
priests were allowed in the temple. Nehemiah knew this treachery
and did not give any attention to that. This is one of the devices of
Satan to make us panic and then motivate us to do things against the
will of God.
6.4.9.9 Fear (6:919)
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The enemies tried hard to frighten Nehemiah. But they all failed. All
through Nehemiah had this motto when facing the enemy, our god
will fight for us (2:20).
As I was reading the book of Nehemiah with a keen interest on his
leadership qualities, certain unmistakable points were projected vividly
before my eyes:
1. He had a servants heart. He worked side by side with other
(1:2, 2:20, 4:23).
2. He had a passion for his God, his country and his people (1:34).
3. He sacrificed so much for the people of God to obtain the
goal.
4. He was a man organizing the work.
5. He paid attention to details (1:1,2).
6. He did not tell everybody everything (2:16).
7. He recognized his enemies and obstacles (2:7).
8. He ignored the rumors.
9. He was not intimidated by the threatening of the enemies.
10. He was excellent in delegation and coordination.
11. He was focused. He never got distracted from his goal (2:20).
12. He knew his people by name and gifts. (3)
13. He encouraged the followers (3:20).
14. He delegated authority and empowered the followers
(4:18,19).
15. He did not quit until the job was done (6:1,15,16).
16. He did not waste time leaving the work to meet the enemies
(6:3).
17. He did not succumb to blackmail (6:7).
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18. He quickly refuted lies and executed righteous judgment (6:8).

19. He took time to remove the rubbish (trash) before starting the
wall construction (4:10).
(People had not given importance for cleaning for years. It was easy to
build the wall on the rubbish. But cleaning was required before construction,
to have a strong wall. Breaking is required before building. This is a good
advice to people who build churches (congregation) on traditions, customs
and ceremonies that are unbiblical. They do this to attract the people. They
depart from the doctrinal soundness, which is based on the Word of God
alone. This is a challenge to leaders to build organizations on scriptural
principles).
6.5 Paul
Apostle Paul was the greatest missionary statesman in Bible times. I

was very much blessed and challenged by the leadership of this leader.
6.5.1 He was ready to obey Gods leading against his

own set of programs and schedules (Acts 16)
Paul and Silas were planning to go to Asia. They tried to go to Bithynia.
But the Spirit of God forbade them. Paul obeyed and followed the
direction given by the Holy Spirit. Then God gave him a vision of
a man from Macedonia calling him to go to Macedonia and preach
the Word. Paul and Silas went to Macedonia. There were oppositions
and imprisonment. But Lydia became the first convert in Europe. The
Philippian jailor was saved. The first church in Europe was planted
the church at Philippi. Godly leader must not be adamant about his
programs that are fixed. He should give attention to the guidance of
God and then obey the direction, though it may seem foolish.
6.5.2 He patiently gave on to the job of training to raise

Timothy to leadership
Timothy was a shy and timid person. He personally was like a touchme-not plant and could get easily offended. Paul groomed him to be
a leader who ultimately was given the challenge and responsibility of
the reputed church at Ephesus. Success without successor is a failure,
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goes the wise saying. A leader should start early in life in seeking and
training leaders for the future.
6.5.3 He risked his life and faced persecution, hardships

and death for the sake of what he was committed to
Christ and his church
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In Acts 21 we read that he knew before hand his imprisonment in

Jerusalem. Believers who loved him advised him not to proceed
to Jerusalem. But Paul was focussed only on following the Lords
direction, pleasing him and to fulfilll the mission God entrusted to
him. He declared, I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die
at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus(Acts 21:13). The people
could not persuade him to stop. So they allowed him to go saying, The
will of the Lord be done (v. 14).
6.5.4 He was always obsessed by a compulsion

to continue and complete the task (2 Tim. 4:18;
Acts 20:24)
There are people who set out for a work in much excitement and
explosive emotions. But as days and months drag along without much
success, they get discouraged and quit, leaving the work incomplete.
We cannot employ such people for any important jobs. That kind of a
man cannot be a good leader.
Apostle Paul was consumed with a determination that he would
complete the job and nothing could stop him, even imprisonment and
death. That is the sign of a great leader.
6.5.5 He was ready to go where nobody had gone

before (Rom. 15:20; 2 Cor. 10:6)
Apostle Paul was a pioneer. He knew Gods calling and leading in his
life to venture to regions that were not treaded by any other missionary.
Though he was a tremendous teacher, writer and edifier of the church,
Paul gave special attention to the people who never heard the gospel.
He undertook difficult and dangerous journeys to hostile regions with
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the specific goal of evangelism and church planting. A good leader goes
where nobody has gone and inspires others to do the same.
This is great a challenge to all those who are preparing themselves
in Bible colleges to be missionaries. After completion of studies
they should not plan to settle in the comfort zones of established
churches. They should not be satisfied with building on another
mans foundation. They should be willing to launch out into the
deep and go where nobody has gone before. Unfortunately majority of
the theological graduates in these days look for jobs in the established
churches. But I do thank God and rejoice when I hear of young men
and women volunteering to go to the regions beyond spreading the
gospel where the Good News is never heard.
6.5.6 He set a good example for others to follow and

he boldly challenged them to follow him (1 Cor. 11:1;
Acts 20:1738; 1 Thess. 1:58, 2:714)
In word and in deed Apostle Paul showed good example for all to
follow. He was an exemplary preacher (Acts 17:2234; 1 Cor. 1:18;
Gal. 6:14). He did not preach a social gospel. He preached Christ and
him crucified. In facing persecution, in raising leaders, in the follow-up
work of the consolidation of the church and in his attitude to material
things, Paul remains a unique example for us to follow. He was also
above blame in his moral behavior.
He did not hesitate to preach the whole counsel of God. Some
preachers claim they have the full gospel but do not preach against
sin. They do not preach about hell and judgment. They are not bold
to preach about tithing and liberal giving for the cause of Gods
kingdom.
Paul did not seek any mans silver or gold. He did not have the
stain of money love or greed on his hands. He lived a simple life and
was content in all situations, either poverty or plenty (Phil. 4:1019).
He was moved by compassion towards the sinners. He had a
broken heart for them (Rom. 9:15; 10:13). Paul was also filled with
deep compassion for the believers like a father and a mother for their
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growth. He wrote, My little children, for whom I labor in birth again

until Christ is formed in you (Gal. 4:10).
A leader with deep compassion undoubtedly has the passion
to continue in his vision and complete the task however hard and
whatever the cost.
6.5.7 Paul displayed tremendous leadership traits in

planting and establishing churches
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After planting local churches he visited them whenever he could

to encourage and teach them. He wrote letters also to them. He
sent others in his place when he could not make visits to these
churches.
6.5.8 Paul harbored no bitterness and did not criticize

Barnabas after they split (1 Cor. 9:6)
Paul and Barnabas were teamed together to serve the Lord in the first
missionary journey. But they came to the point of a severe quarrel before
the second journey. Paul did not want to take John Mark because of his
inconsistency. The young man had left the team in the middle of the
first missionary journey. Barnabas, on the other hand, wanted to include
John Mark. Because of this conflict Paul and Barnabas parted their
ways. Paul took with him Silas. Barnabas took John Mark with him.
It is interesting to note that these two leaders, Paul and Barnabas,
did not keep bitterness and grudge in their hearts following this
separation. They did not throw stones at each other. Rather they
appreciated and recommended each other. This is the sign of healthy
spiritual leadership.
This is a valuable lesson we all need to learn in our leadership
positions. Differences of opinion will arise. Conflicts of interests may
occur. Heated discussions, debate and argument may take place.
Division and separation may find room among leaders. It is good to
let go and continue with the vision God gave you. It is unwise and
detrimental to the cause of Christ if the leaders who parted their
ways continue to attack each other. This is a serious sin among

Christian leaders bringing shame and reproach to the very name of
Christianity.
6.5.9 Paul was ready to acknowledge his mistake and

express his regret by his action
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He hated giving a second chance to John Mark, though Barnabas

pleaded with him. On the basis of this difference of opinion Paul left
his good friend Barnabas. Paul did write off John Mark labelling him
as a useless missionary, a liability. As days passed by, John Mark was
growing in the Lord and serving the Lord faithfully under the gracious
and gentle leadership of Barnabas. When Paul heard about this, he
requested Timothy, Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is
useful to me in the ministry (2 Tim. 4:11).
What can we conclude from the episode? It seems Apostle Paul did
regret his obstinate action in giving up John Mark. It seems he began to
appreciate Barnabas for giving a second chance to John Mark. Paul
might have felt sorry that he himself as a leader was not instrumental
in sheltering and grooming John Mark. He was not embarrassed to
request the help of John Mark.
This again, is a rare lesson in leadership. Even the most dynamic
leader can be mistaken in some areas. A true leader will correct his
mistake. He will not hesitate to express this in action.
6.5.10
Paul rebuked Peter
compromising (Gal. 1:1121)
to
correct
him
from
Peter knew that it is alright to eat with the Gentile Christians. He

practiced that habit. But when some Jewish Christians came to him,
he behaved as if he did not want to do so. Peter did not stand for
conviction. He was a coward and caved under peer pressure. This
action was detrimental to the unity of the church of Jesus Christ where
all are one in Christ.
Therefore, Apostle Paul rebuked Peter to correct him. A spiritual
leader who lives above blame has the boldness to rebuke and correct the
people of God if they go wrong in the areas of life and doctrine. God is
looking for courageous leadership.
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6.6 Barnabas
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Barnabas was not a powerful preacher nor a prolific writer like Apostle
Paul. But he was the man who encouraged Paul and introduced him
to the church when everyone doubted him (Acts 9:26, 27; 11: 25,26)
he also encouraged new Gentile converts (11:23). He gave importance
to John Mark, the backslider and gave him a second chance to serve
the Lord (Acts 15:3641). He lived up to the meaning of his name
Son of encouragement. Barnabas was the symbol of fervent love
and unity in the church. He was a rich man. But he renounced all
his riches to serve the Lord. He was a faithful steward (Acts 4:36,37).
He worked with his own hands to support himself and the ministry
(1 Cor. 9:6). He was handsome (Acts 14:12). He was chosen by God
and he was a good man full of the Holy Spirit and great many number
were added to the Lord because of his ministry of encouragement
(Acts 11:23). He was a leader in his own right, by the grace of God in the
church. I am so much blessed when I studied the unique qualities of his
leadership.
6.6.1 He introduced and encouraged Paul
He introduced and encouraged Paul even though he knew Paul would

become a greater leader with his gifts, talents, education and eloquent
preaching and writing. But Barnabas was not envious of Paul.
6.6.2 He was ready to take the second place and was

content with that
He was the leader in the beginning and the Bible record lists Barnabas
and Paul in the early days of their teaming together. But, as days passed
by, the order changed and we read Paul and Barnabas. However, we
do not see any kind of jealousy in Barnabas.
6.6.3 He was ready to forgive the mistake of John Mark

and give him a second chance to serve the Lord
Barnabas was ready to forgive the mistake of John Mark and give him
a second chance to serve the Lord, while Paul, the perfectionist in his
6.7 Jesus Christ
legalism did not see any good in the backslider. Often some Christian
leaders treat the fallen ones despitefully, cruelly and refusing any chance
to them in Christian service. They fail to see that they too can fall in
sin. These holier than thou people with a sense of false perfection are
pretenders and hypocrites. They enjoy breaking lives and they do not
do the ministry of making lives (building lives).
How did Jesus lead? By servant style
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To become a good leader we need to study the leadership style of great

and effective leaders in history. Jesus Christ was the greatest leader in
history. Position or degree is not the important quality of effective
leadership. Shared vision, servant leadership and team spirit are the
best characteristics of a Godly leader. Worldly leadership of the past
gave focus to a hero as the head of the organization with magnetic
qualities. But the post-historic leadership era saw the emergence
of servanthood as the key to effective leadership. This concept of
the principles of administration, management and leadership was
introduced and practiced by our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. He said,
The greatest among you will be the servant (Matt 23:8ff). He had
twelve disciples whom he chose, trained and mentored.
Jesus followed the principle of basin and towel to lead them!
He washed the disciples feet and encouraged to do this to one another
(John 13:5). In Matthew 20 we read of James and John seeking positions
in accordance with heroic leadership. Their mother requested Jesus
to adorn them with the positions of senior leadership in his kingdom
as Executive Vice-president of the kingdom of God. Jesus did not
encourage this style of management. He found a new management
style of saying, The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to
serve, and to give his life a ransom for many (Matt. 2:21ff). Power,
position, force, aggressiveness and command were promoted and
practiced as qualities of leadership till the time of Christ. There was no
world for humility. Yet, Jesus introduced humility and meekness
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in the Sermon on the Mount as the primary requisites to conquer and

to continue to lead and manage (Matt 5:5). He taught that meekness
is not weakness but it is power under control. It is through meekness
that Jesus conquered the hearts of millions and through servant
leadership style that Jesus conquered the whole world.
6.7.1 Leaders are not lords (Mark 10:42,43)
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Jesus Christ is both Lord and leader. But we have authority on spiritual
things and not on people. Christian leaders watch over lovingly and
tenderly (Heb. 13:17). Shepherds of the church are asked not to lord
(boss) over the people of God but lead them through service and love
(1 Pet. 5:14).
6.7.2 Ideal leaders are those who get followers who

want to be like them
They love to follow their leader. They respect the lifestyle of their leader.
They love their leader because they know he loves and cares for them.
6.7.3 Good leaders are not faultfinders
They are not watch dogs seeking to find mistakes in the followers.
Mr. Critique and Ms. Judgment cannot be servant leaders. Some
leaders are able to find the errors of their followers through a key hole
while they remain unable to find their own log-like blunders.
6.7.4 Godly leaders apply balm to the wounded hearts

Leaders who throw salt on the wounded people are insensitive leaders.
Good leaders will be in the ministry of healing. Self-righteous leaders
will do the ministry of judgment and condemnation.
6.7.5 A Godly leader will prefer to be an advocate than

an accuser
Advocate aligns with Jesus (1 John 2:1). An accuser joins with Satan
(Rev. 12:10).
6.7.6 Spiritual leaders lift up others always

They do not trample others down.
6.7.7 Servant leaders have their eyes open to serve

whenever and wherever they can
6.7.8 Great leaders do not think certain tasks are
beneath their dignity to perform
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Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. He promised rewards to those

who were faithful in little things (Luke 16:10,12; Mark 10:43,44).
These principles and many more are seen in the leadership style
of Jesus Christ. He could have used Coercive Power (Punishment),
Reward Power (Offer wealth and other rewards), Positional Power (I
am in charge, so you have to do it) and Expert Power (I know it, I
have the wisdom, I have the expertise, I am smart, therefore, you
follow me) But he did not use any of these powers. He used servantleadership style (Matt. 10:2528; Mark 9:3335; John 13:3).
6.7.9 Characteristics of servant leadership
1. Model is Jesus(Mark 10:45).

2. Greatness is ranked by service in the kingdom of God
(Mark 10:4344).
3. Leaders serve people (2 Cor. 4:5).
4. Badge of authority is not needed. Service is the badge
(1 Pet. 5:13; 2 Cor. 4:5).
5. Servanthood involves stewardship (1 Pet. 4:10, 11).
6. Servanthood involves self-giving, even to the point of death
(John 10:11; Acts 15:26).
7. Servantleader is God-anointed and God-vindicated
(Isaiah 42:1; John 12:26).
Insecure leadership clings to Positional Power, Coercive
Power and Reward Power.
Servant leadership is a lifestyle for life, not for a few years.
Do not stop serving thinking you have become big, your area has just
become larger and your influence has become greater. Go deeper
and deeper and serve the weak and fallen, just as Jesus served the fallen
Peter and restored him.
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6.8 Jesus, the CEOthe Servant Style

Jesus was the Chief Executive Officer. But he did not use his executive
powers in leading the disciples. He was a servant among them. Jesus is
the greatest example of servant leadership.
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1. He was a man of vision

2. He believed in his product
3. He was focussed and never distracted
4. He had passion and determination
5. He delegated
6. He was a team player
7. He did not discriminate
8. He did not pre-judge on outward appearance
9. He networked with all kinds of people
10. He had some set goals
11. He did not get discouraged when he could not close the sale
12. He had specific plans and preparations
13. He never hurried
14. He took time to rest
15. He recognized the power of repetition
16. He overcame the stigma of the past
17. He offered incentives
18. He refused to be discouraged when others misjudged his
motives
19. He never wasted time on his critiques
20. He did not become bitter when he was betrayed
21. He finished what he started. He died shouting, It is finished.
the leadership style of jesus is called incarnational

leadership by many. The key is being humble-minded and
leading others, giving them more importance and placing them first.
In this pattern, the leader is not seeking power, position, influence
and material gains. He sincerely seeks the welfare and promotion of
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the followers and the organization. He lives for the corporate good,
sacrificing all the personal comforts.
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Study Guide
1. Give 5 points to show that Noah was an exemplary leader.
2. Give 5 points to show the highlights of Abrahams leadership.
3. Mention at least 5 lessons you learnt from Godly leadership of
Moses.
4. How did Moses overcome the temptations of jealousy, revenge and

personal ambition?
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5. Mention the 5 basic lessons on leadership from the book of

Nehemiah.
6. In the qualities of leadership Nehemiah was
a man of
7. A leader by faith can see.................................................and

sees......................Nehemiah was able to ....................................
.....and .............................the people into ........................action
groups. A leader sees the......................................in.......................
..................and match the.......................with the..........................
.................
8. How did Nehemiah receive the vision?
9. What three basic factors of evangelism and missions emerged from

Nehemiah when he heard the report?
10.
............................................, ............................................ &
.......................... affect all ........................, ..............................
............ to the .......................... for ...................................., and
ideal.............................
11. The three inevitable missionary key words are ...................,
............................ & .....................

12. Where there is a missionary information there will be no
missionary involvementcomment
13. What were the two responses of Nehemiah to the condition of the
temple?
14. Nehemiah waited upon God. How did he do it?
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a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Do not ................ into Gods work because of an ............ or by
the..................
15. Why are you having a sad face? questioned the king. Why was
Nehemiah sad? What kind of sadness was that?
16. Should the work cease? said Nehemiah. What does it declare?
Comment
17. Should I flee? What does it declare? And why?
18.
The three requests of Nehemiah were ..................... and
.................... and how are they related to the three assurances of
servant of God needs:.............. and ..................
19. The three essentials of Christian service are:
1. .............................
2. .............................
3. .............................
20. Nehemiah challenged the people by saying.
1. .............................
2. .............................
3. .............................
21. Nehemiah faced the enemy declaring
1. He will prosper usdeclares:...............................

2. We are His servantsdeclares:............................
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3. You have no part in thisdeclares......................................

(No compromise).
22. What are those tactics of the enemy against Nehemiah still found
active in todays church? Comment:
23. Mention at least 10 unmistakable points of leadership qualities of
Nehemiah.
24. Raise the points to show that Apostle Paul was the greatest
missionary statesman in Bible times.
25. Barnabas was a great missionary encourager. Account for this
statement.
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26. Explain the servanthood style of leadership of Jesus Christ.
27. What was the new management style founded by Jesus Christ as
found in Matthew 2:21 and Matthew 5:5?
28. Mention the 7 characteristics of servant leadership.
29. Give any 10 points to support that Jesus was a servantstyle CEO
and not a chief executive.
30. Why the leadership style of Jesus was known as Incarnational
Leadership?
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Chapter 7
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THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP
There are different opinions among leadership theorists as to how to list

the actual leadership functions. The commonly accepted functions are:
7.1 Planning
This is the most basic one. It ties up the other functions.

Planning is fundamentally choosing a course of action from
among alternative ways of doing something.
Planning is to consider a thing in detail and arrange it in
advance and controlled by an organization.
Planning is designing an atmosphere for effective
performance of people working together in groups,
that they understood the purpose of the objectives, and
methods of achieving them. It involves every section of the
organization.
Planning is deciding in advance what to do, how to do it,
when to do it and who is to do it (Koontz & Donnell)
It determines what has to be done, who is doing what,
when and how
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7.1.1 The essence of planning
Help us know
What kind
of workers
we need,
when
Affects the kind

of leadership
How most
effecvely
to lead
people
In order to
assure
success of
plans
By giving
standards of
control
What kind
of an
organizaon
al structure
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1. Objecves
2. How to achieve
them
Planning
7.1.2 Why planning is important
Because
1. It sets off a thing against another causing uncertainty

and change.
Determine goals, policies, methods beforehand
so that the plan may not jump into the dark.
2. It focuses aenon on objecves.
Aenon of acons directed towards goals.
3. It enables economical operaons of projects.
Economical use of resources. Avoid wastages.
4. It facilitates control
Checks and measures prescribed targets.
A plan must be carefully developed before programs are launched or else:

Efforts go displaced
People go disappointed
Funds go diverted
7.1.3 Benefits of planning

Increases efficiency (helps spend less total time on projects).
Reduces fire-fighting (time spent on solving problems, crisis).
Planning helps here in two ways:
Anticipates the problems and prevents them
Provides for them in advance
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7.1.4 Steps in planning
Planning may differ from one organization to another because of the

differences in objectives. In one it may be simple but in another it may
be complex.
Planning leads to order (1 Cor. 14:40) or eliminates
disorder.
Christ advocated thinking ahead (Luke 14:2832).
God desires to give direction (Ps. 32:8).
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Step1. Pray for Gods wisdom

a) Thank God for the wisdom of the mind (1 Cor. 2:16).
b) Ask for specific wisdom (James 1:5).
c) Commit your plans to Him (Prov. 16:3).
d) Write down any thought or Scripture that God impresses
upon your mind (2 Chron. 1:813).
Step2. Awareness of the opportunity for missionary activities

Knowledge of the place, people, religions, customs, education,
etc. before setting objectives.
Step3. Setting objectives.
Your objectives are your criteria against which you can measure
the appropriateness of all your current activities.
a) Basic objective is to glorify God (Ps. 96) How? (John 15:8)
b) Demonstrate your trust in God
c) Ask God for his objectives
While setting objective:
I. Be flexible
II. Be open to change
III. Know goals are overall (Broad)
IV. Know objectives are specific targets
For example, a football teams objective is to win. To achieve this

objective, the game plan may be altered when something unexpected
(an injury) happened in the team, or when studying the move of the
opponent.
When we shift with changing situations we move towards

achieving the goal.
A rigid plan always ends up in trouble while launching a project.
First, set the objectives for the entire organization then, to
each, assign subordinate units.
be clear & be concise.
Establish what is to be accomplished.
Collect facts, opinions, consult experienced people.
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Step4. Consider the planning situations

Pay due attention to the environment of the place, internal as
well as external, before sending out workers.
Step5. Identify reasonable alternative
Sometimes the alternative becomes the most suitable for the
objectives.
Step6. Comparison of alternatives
Compare the alternatives in the light of the goals/objectives
as to which alternative will be at the lowest cost and highest
achievement.
Step7. Choose the course of action
Select a course of action which will be followed by the
organization.
Step8. Formulating plans for supporting reserves
Plans for equipments, materials, selection of workers, training,
new projects etc.
Step9. Plans numbered and budgeted
Convert the plans into budgets and allocate funds. Determine
money, man power and material to implement the plan. How
much is needed? How these needs are met?
If God called you to fulfilll these objectives, he will provide (Phil. 4:19).
Step10. Program
Determine how to accomplish it
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A plan of action to be taken

a. logical steps (one follows the other)

b. simultaneous action
Analyze data and consequences
Find alternative course
Execute and choose set standards
Step11. Schedule
Make the plan workable on day-to-day basis
Give each action a place in time slot on calendar
Determine when each activity is to be accomplished
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7.2 Translate Goals into Action

Goals without plans are dreams
Goals and planning
7.2.1 Who shall be involved in planning?

X- THEORY
Y- THEORY
(AuthorityOriented)
FROM
DIRECTOR
T
O
P
SETS GOALS
T
O
B
O
T
T
O
M
(Goal-Oriented)
ACHIEVING GOALS
FORMATION OF PLAN
DO
COURSE OF ACTION
TECHNIQUES
SETS OBJECTIVE
TRAIN
STAFF
INFORMATION
PLANS
DISCIPLINE
LEADS
CONTROLS
DO
TO
LEAD
PLAN
CONTROL
SET GOALS
SET OBJECTIVES
subordinates
discipline
TOP
DIRECTOR + WORKERS
FROM
BOTTOM
Gives information ..........

Trains them ...................
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Explains rules .................

Persuades leadership .......
Rewards promotion ........
Teaches ..........................
People participate in problemsolving and goal-setting.

Give access to information and
opportunities for maximum learning.
Explains rules and consequences of
violation.
Mediates in conflicts.
People set to changing goals.
Opportunities for growth.
Methods, and techniques for
improvement.
Due recognition for achievements.
Helps in failures.
For subordinates:
Sets goals .......................
Punishment for failure ...
7.2.2 How to begin to set goals
1. State the objectives briefly.

2. Restate the objectives in quantitative terms (by improving on
the first item. Then avoid the item #1).
3. State reason for achieving this objective.
4. Outline plan for achieving this objective.
5. Timing:
(a) Date of completion.
(b) Date or starting.
(c) Planned check-points (Dates and status of work). Review
of work progress.
6. Assistance to achieve the objective.
A. Resources under your control (if not available, how will you
obtain when needed?)
I. Amount of your time required.
II. Subordinates, who will be involved. (Name, qualification
and time required).
III. Materials and supplies to be used (list).
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IV. Equipment and space to be used (list).

V. Other expenses required.
B. Assistance needed from others in the organization (what,
when, from whom, amount/cost)
C. Assistance needed from outside source (what, when, from
whom, amount/cost).
7. Total cost to achieve the objective should not exceed
rupees________ (fill in)
8. If the objective is not undertaken the cost may be rupees
__________ (explanation)
9. How result will be measured? (If difficult to review item #2,
objective may not have been stated clearly).
10. To meet planned schedule, approval should be received by
______________
7.2.3 Beginning and end of the process of leadership

Begins with goals
TO ACHIEVE
Set goals
TO DELEGATE
Administer
TO SET GOALS
Make decisions
TO ADMINISTRATE
Communicate
TO REACH GOALS
Make plan
TO COMMUNICATE
Movate
TO PLAN
Analyze
TO MOTIVATE
Share
TO ANALYZE
Implement
TO SHARE
Care
TO IMPLEMENT
Organize
TO CARE
Believe
TO ORGANIZE
Delegate
TO BELIEVE
Set goals that inspire

belief
Ends with goals
glorifying god is the main objective of everything in Christian

leadership.

Two specific ways to glorify God:
I. Share the gospel with non-Christians.
II. Discipline the Christians.
how to make a list for you
A. Four life objectives
What God specially called you to do.
What special strength God has given you to do this.
What opportunities God has given to you for this.
Your thoughts
Harmonize short-term and long-term goals.
Why? Because what is relevant today, may be disastrous tomorrow.
1 Month6 Months12 MonthsObjectives are better.
Integrate these to forecast 35 years, plan.
Allow flexibility to adjust to changes.
B.
Your priorities.
Make list.
Do not try to do all in the list in one day
Select the highest priority.
The highest priority becomes objective.
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Now what is needed is a system to translate the objectives into action,

day by day, week by week.
7.3 Characteristics of Planning
a plan must have
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Simplicity
Flexibility
Balance
Established Standard
Capability of using material and
human resources to the maximum
(L.S. Urwick).
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Graded sub-divisions of plans for Christian missions
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Goals/objecves
of the missions
Mission of
the missions
The purpose of the missions

Plans for future, the very base
to directions. All activities,
people, resources aimed
towards it.
General program of action
involving the persons and
resources to attain the
objectives.
The plans that guide the
action, also limits the action
in mission making.
Methods of accomplishing
objectivesdetails
the
exact manner in which a
certain activity must be
accomplished.
Set
directions
to
be
followed at various levels of
performance.
Plans that are generally
supported by necessary
capital
and
operating
budgets.
Plans expressed in numerical
terms
stating
expected
results. It is a control device.
Strategies of the
missions
Policies of the missions
Procedures of the missions
Rules, regulaons of the missions
Programs of the missions
Budget of the missions
7.4 Decisionmaking
One of the most crucial and delicate obligations of a leader.
Decisions are central to life and death of an organization.
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The functions, glories and failure of an organization can be

observed from the analysis of its decision-making.
It is a difficult function. One cannot take decision according
to ones own wishes.
It is a vital task. Inability to take decision at the right time
due to the shortage of time (when more and more problems
emerge), inflicts moral torture in the executives.
Decisions are the reflection of rational ability and foresight
of the leader. It may not please everybody, all the time. The
leader may be confused having no alternatives or he may
attempt for an escapist route.
7.4.1 Nature of decisionmaking
Decision is made within the established policy.

Decision is a means to secure the target set before it. But it
is not the aim of the administration.
Ability to make decisions vary from person to person. To
some it is easy but to some it is hazardous.
Decisionmaking is to the variation of human faculties
from person to person.
In the matters of leadership they often make irresponsible,
absent-minded, non-punctual, non-decisive, nonpersuasive decisions. Many can never make up their minds.
Knowledge plays a decisive role in decisionmaking.
Detailed facts, their analysis, use of concepts of human and
physical behavior.
Considers various internal and external factors.
Considers the aspirations, traditions, attitudes of the
organizations.
7.4.2 Steps to decisionmaking (Prof. Terry)

1. Determine the problem.
2. Collect information on backgrounds.
Collect different views regarding the problem.

Determine the best course, action.
Investigation of proposition and crucial decisions.
Evaluation of tentative decisions.
Making of decisions.
Implementing the decision.
Modification of decision if appears desirable.
7.5 Delegating
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
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One of the difficulties in management concepts is delegation.

In facing the issue of delegation the manager must be very
honest and realistic about his own limitations, both of time and of
knowledge.
Shall I bring in capable, knowledgeable volunteers to help?
Am I willing to delegate significant parts of my program with
qualified volunteers?
Delegating = entrusting responsibility and authority to others and
creating accountability for results.
7.5.1 Delegation carries with it four basic ideas

1. Transfer of work: An assigned job goes from the manager to a
subordinate and the subordinate accepts it on the basis of the expected
result.
Only some selected jobs are delegated so as to reduce the load of
the leader. The delegate must be willing to perform it himself. Such a
selected person should be prepared, motivated and trained.
Delegation doesnt mean that a leader is getting emptied out
of his authority. He still maintains the authority in a supervisory
role, encourages and corrects the delegate, through constant
communication. The power is given out only in a time-bound manner
for the responsibility over the assignment. But the leader is still held
accountable for the task.

2. Empowerment of authority should be at the consuming rate with
the nature of the work.
3. Acceptance of responsibility: The subordinate must be genuinely
willing to do the work and must have the initiative to get it done.
4. Follow up & accountability: Delegation does not free the manager

from his accountability. He must be always available and ready to give
help and advice.
7.5.2 Benefits of delegation
1. Improves understanding between levels.
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2. Improves managersubordinate relationship.

3. Increases job satisfaction and morale.
7.5.3 Benefits of the manager

1. Eases job pressure.
2. Increases time for broader function.

3. Increases chances of promotion.
7.5.4 Benefits for subordinates
1. Challenge and interest. Challenge for advancement, to learn

new situations and learn from mistakes.
2. Increased motivation. Opportunities for more effective
work.
3. Increased opportunities to practice management skills.
7.5.5 How to delegate (six main principles)

1. Select the jobs to be delegated and get them organized for
turnover.
2. Pick the proper person for the job-match for the task.
3. Prepare and motivate the delegate for his assignment.
4. Handover the work and make sure it is fully understood.
5. Encourage independence.
6. Maintain supervisory controlnever relinquish the reins.
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7.5.6 What to delegate (select the work to be delegated)

1. Delegate routine details: Minor decisions, time-consuming
tasks and a dull chore to the manager.
2. Delegate the task for which the manager is not fully qualified
or may not be up on latest details, especially when the
department is highly technical.
3. Delegate to prevent overexhaustion of the manager in which he

is bogged down and cannot turn his attention to administrative
and interpersonal matters.
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4. Delegate problemsolving tasks. This increases the decision

making skill of the subordinate and maximizes his usefulness.
7.5.7 What not to delegate

1. Setting objectives.
2. Building teamwork.
3. Coaching and developing subordinates.
4. Setting individual goalsquantity, quality, cost and time.

5. Disciplinary matters.
7.5.8 Whom to delegate
1. The person who seeks additional responsibility, who wants a

chance to develop himself.
2. The man whose potential is unknownthe manager gets a
chance to evaluate his performance.
3. The man closest to the worksomeone closer to the actual
work situation.
7.5.9 Whom not to delegate

1. To an individual outside the group.
2. To an individual several levels below the manager.
3. To persons who are not technically or administratively ready
to add responsibility.

4. To persons who are doubtful or emotionally not prepared.
5. To a person who is a favorite (no favoritism).
7.5.10 Delegation of responsibilitypyramid effect
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DIRECTOR
TASK FORCE
TASK FORCE
Task
DIRECTOR
Director
Section Leaders
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3
Group Leaders
Section Leaders
1 2 3
1 2 3
Group Leaders
12 3
7.6 Co-ordinating
The essential function of making certain that the right hand knows
what the left hand is doing or the workers know what the staff is doing
and vice-versa.
Opportunity for cooperation between people and between
programs.
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7.6.1 Four steps
Communication
(see chapter 9).
is
the
key
to
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To be considered before coordinating activities or bringing relationship

of coordination.
1. The leader and the workers must know or define the common
goals of the whole group.
2. Spell out specific areas of responsibilities for each individual.
3. Identify standards of performances so that each person will
know what is considered a good job; they are set in terms of
cost, quality, quantity, service, time, etc.
4. Measure the result of each mans work.
coordination
7.6.2 Communication skills in delegation
This is the ability to specify exactly what you are asking the other
person to do.
Make your eyecontact.
Treat people with respect.
Listen carefully as they speak.
Organize their thoughts before you speak.
Avoid using unnecessary jargon or technical terms.
Dont assume.
Encourage questions.
Ask feedback.
Avoid speaking when they are angry.
Note: Miscommunication can result in poor performance or resentment.
7.7 Leadership Self-evaluation

Evaluation questions
1. Am I prepared for a leadership role?

Do I have faith in my ability?
Do I have the courage to make decisions?
Do I understand the position?
Do I know the organizationlocal, district and
international?
Do I have the time to be a leader?
yes
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2. Am I approachable to all members?

Do I have a sense of humor?
Do I admit failure on my part?
Do I represent all members of the organization?
Do I praise individually and collectively?
Do I have time to recognize members?
3. Can I communicate with people?

Do I listen when others talk?
Do I have patience with people?
Do I praise in public as well as in private?
Do I paraphrase statements by others for claritys sake?
4. Can I evaluate people?
Do I understand job assignments in the organization?
Do I invite peoples ideas?
Do I understand teamwork?
Do I recognize ability in others?
5. Am I trustworthy as a leader?
Do I acquire confidence from members?
Do I refrain from arguments with members?
Do I inspire confidence and sincerity?
Do I show an interest in each person?
Do I act autocratically in or out of meetings?
Do I express enthusiasm for the group?
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6. Can I delegate authority?

Do I delegate job authority for an action?
Do I delegate in a logical and concise order?
Do I instill responsibility through action?
Do I ask for teamwork on projects?
Do I utilize other peoples time effectively?
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7. Can I make decisions?

Do I work logically and creatively?
Do I utilize limited time effectively?
Do I complete the task and encourage new ideas and
projects?
Do I positively state conclusions?
Leadership book of Management and Administration.

Good leaders know that leadership has to do with people. They
realize that the health of the church/organization depends upon the
health of each member. They acknowledge that the key to successful
leadership is:
The right person in the right role given the right tools, right
encouragement and right training.
They recognize that developing/growing a church/organization
requires the development of people. Then how should they carry out
their organization?
1. Through planned programs of selecting the best/committed
people.
2. Through helping them thoroughly learn the job.
3. Through coaching them along the works.
4. Through regular evaluations.
Todays Christian leaders need to know that:

The ultimate purpose of the church/organization is to give
glory to God through serving Jesus Christ as he has shown
and not to lift/retain the name of the man/the church/the
organization.
There is tension in the church/organization between

depending on God and depending on oneself. There is
tension between following the programs and the leading of
the Holy Spirit.
There is tension with the leadership, never resolved, as
to what they are dealing/handling with is greater than
themselves.
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Regardless of what happens, success or failure, God is at work doing

his will.
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Study Guide
1. What is planning? Give at least two definitions.
2. Draw a chart to show the essence of planning.
3. Why is planning important?
4. What benefits do we get from planning?

5. Planning as described by a Christian organization:
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Because
(1) 1 Cor.14:40 ...............................

(2) Luke 14:2832 ..........................

(3) Ps. 32:8 .....................................
6. In praying for Gods wisdom:
a) 1 Cor. 2:16
b) James 1:5
c) Prov. 16:3
7. Explain why in planning knowledge of place, people, faith, custom,
culture of a target people are essential?
8. The criteria for your objectives are:
a) Basic .................................
b) Demonstrate .....................
c) Ask God ...........................
9. What happens
(i) When shifting with changing situations............................

(ii) When a plan is rigid.........................................................
10. How to proceed with setting objectives:
1st =
2nd =
3rd =
4th =
5th =
6th =

11. Why do we need to consider the situations of a place before sending
out workers?
12. Who shall be involved in planning? Answer in support of X theory
or Y theory.
13. Give points to begin to set goals.
14. The three desires of leadership are:
15. With the help of a chart jot down the process of leadership.
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16. If glorifying God is the main objective of Christian leadership what

must be your life objectives?
1.
2.
3.
4.
17. What are the characteristics a plan must process?
18. How will you grade the sub-divisions of plans for Christian
missions?
19. Write down at least five points to show the importance of decisionmaking?
20. State at least six natures of decision-making.
21. Mention any six steps to decision-making.
22. What do you understand by delegating?
23. The four basic ideas of delegation are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
24. Jobs are delegated to ..................................
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25. A delegate must be......................................

And he should be........................................., and......................
26. The effects of delegation upon the leaders are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
27. Mention any 5 principles of delegation.
28. Cross out the wrong answers:
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a) Increases understanding between levels (benefits to manager/

benefits to delegation/benefits to subordinates).
b) Eases job pressure (benefits of delegation/benefits to manager/
benefits to subordinates).
29. Say Right () or Wrong (X)
a) Delegate routine details, minor decisions ________

b) Delegate setting objectives ________
c) Delegate to a person whose potential is unknown
___________
d) Delegate to an individual outside the group _______
30. What is coordinating?
31. State the four steps of coordination.
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Chapter 8
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LEADERSHIP AND GROUP DYNAMICS

The principle of group dynamics was applied by Christ in
Mark 6:713, where he divided his 12 member strong team into six
2-men units, trained them, formed them and sent them for much
more effectiveness than some solitary individuals working elsewhere.
He taught them the dynamics of working together and to mutually use
their skills and talents. There is strength and weakness in man. When
put together one can support the other in their weaknesses.
8.1 Purpose of Groups in Organizations

The leader must create a workable atmosphere where the workers
can develop trust-relationship among themselves and between the
leadership and the people. The leader gives decision-making powers
to the people, helps the people to identify the problem of failure or
weakness and to find solutions to correct.
8.2 Strengths Compensate for Weaknesses

The leaders organize the group in such a way that one persons strength
compensates for anothers weakness.
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Strength of A = ab compensates weakness of B = MN

Strength of B = cd compensates weakness of A = DP
................. = strength and weakness of A.
_______ = strength and weakness of B.
8.2.1 Mutual acceptance of group members

The group members should show acceptance of each other, even when
they agree to disagree, otherwise they, especially the new members, will
be reluctant to contribute towards achieving the goals. The leaders see
that there are opportunities placed before each member to use their
skills and abilities and ensure that they are accepted into the group.
8.2.2 Personal goals of the members

When an individuals personal goals become suited to the goals of the
group the person receives personal satisfaction. Every worker who joins
a missionary society brings with him his personal goal or a need. For
example, a missionary who also is a linguist has his personal goal to
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study tribal languages and to develop them that he may translate the
Scripture into these languages. He will not take a liking to preaching,
teaching or doing social services. Only when this personal need is met
he will make a long-term commitment with the organization with the
best of his time, energy and talents for achieving the objectives of the
group.
On the other hand, if his personal goals come in conflict with the
goals of the group, he will be tempted to give more attention to his
personal goals and will refuse to cooperate.
While recruiting workers the leader should consider not only the
persons abilities but also his personal goals and interests.
8.3 Functions of Groups in Organizations

Organizations form groups to accomplish goals which cannot
be accomplished well by individuals. By creating and supporting
productive groups within the budget is an excellent way of increased
efficiency in achieving set goals. The leader can encourage the members
for deeper commitment and harder works to achieve productivity. Thus
the groups work in closer relationship with each other. Conflicting
issues or unmet personal goals cannot separate them.
Two, the more the group members participate, maintain interrelationships and inter-dependence, the goals get refined and reduce
the risk of causing conflicting issues and unmet personal goals. The
leader permits the group members to create their goals and this will
develop a tensionfree atmosphere in the group.
8.4 Negative and Positive Roles
Three, the success or failure of a group depends upon group dynamics.

Each member in the group plays negative and positive role within the
group.
8.4.1 Negative and positive roles in group members

ROLES IN GROUP MEMBERS
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8.4.2 Positive
- What is a worker contributing to the group to achieve the target
organizer
= Identifies, assigns, schedules activities.
recommender
= Gives suggestions, recommendations.
informer
= Collects data, facts, figures, information.
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communicator
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= Maintains flow of communication.

= Suggests changes according to results.
- Every individual in the group assisting others

morale booster
= Builds up morale among group members.
Recognizes ideas and actions of others.
pursuer
= Passes on leadership to others pursuing them
to use their abilities with freedom.
mediator
= In conflicts and crises he brings compromise
to the group members.
defender
= Protects and defends group members from
outside intrusions and interference in the
accomplishment of goals.
servanthood
= Serves the group in any way he can to help
each individual of the group.
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support
8.4.3 Negative
Anti-group

dictator
Focuses on reducing the productivity

Focuses on self-improvement
A dominant ruler who controls everything
within the group.
obstructor
Delays, discourages, sidetracks progress
within the group.
attraction-seekers Seeking appreciation and attention from
people for his accomplishments.
escapists
Avoids critical issues, personal obligations
within the group.
Note: The leader should periodically explain the roles of the group members
so that they may focus on the positive aspects rather than on the negative
aspects.
Study Guide
1. How did Christ employ the principles of group dynamics?
2. How does a leader create a workable atmosphere?
3. Prove with the help of a diagram how the weakness of one person
is compensated with the strength of another.
4. Some group members are reluctant to contribute towards achieving

goals because..............
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5. Mention some of the personal goals of a missionary when he joins

up with a missionary society. What will be his response
a) When his personal goals are met and
b) When his personal goals are not met.
6. How do groups function in organizations?
7. In the positive roles of group members, explain each of the

supporting groups.
a. Morale Booster
b. Pursuer
c. Mediator
d. Defender
8. What are the tasks that a positive worker contributes to the
group?
a. Organizer
b. Recommender
c. Informer
d. Communicator
9. On what does the positive group focus on?
10. On what does the negative group focus on?

11. What are the anti-group activities carried out by the negative
group.
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a. Dictator
b. Obstructer
c. Attraction-seekers
d. Escapist
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THE LEADER AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

The Ten Commandments deal with two kinds of relationships.
9.1 Commandments
1
Relaonship with God
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Relaonship with fellow men

Ps. 113:1 & 1 Cor. 1:10
Both relaonships must be right as shown in all the books of the Bible
A leader must work at developing and nurturing a healthy relationship

within the group. Unfortunately the Christian leaders are found to
be the weakest in keeping up with working relationships within the
group and outside. They still need to learn how to relate themselves to
coordinators, promoters, supervisors, missionaries, project managers,
project workers, office staff, technical staff, field staff, manual laborers,
etc. All the skills of a leader become unproductive if they fail to develop
and maintain working relationships.
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Biblical principles of working relationship
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In the world system the relationship is on to get people meet your

need, but in the biblical system it is to meet the needs of others.
Personal needs are central to all relationships. One cannot meet
needs without forming relationships with another. A leader must realize
that people need other people. The function of relationship is to meet
each others needs within the group. When a leader fails to recognize
this basic principle he runs into serious relationship problems with him
and others in the group. When needs are met relationship develops
producing satisfaction and contentment and when the needs are not
met relationships erode, frustration and resentment develop producing
unions in organization and divorce in families.
9.2 Types of Working Relationships Illustrated

COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP
VENGEFUL RELATIONSHIP
RELATION
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BEGINS
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Erodes to
DOMINEERING RELATIONSHIP
Erodes to
SEPARATIST RELATIONSHIP
WHEN NEEDS ARE

MET
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WHEN NEEDS ARE

NOT MET
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GROUP WINNING
CONTROL OVER
THE OTHER
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THE DOMINATED
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LAST STEP
9.3 Types of Working Relationships Explained

9.3.1 Cooperative relationship
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All relationships begin in a cooperation style. It remains there as long

as personal needs are met inside this relationship. Relationships move
out if needs are met.
When needs are not met, relationships move to
9.3.2 Vengeful relationship
FOCUS
ON SELF
Sees others as obstructers to

his personal needs
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acons towards others
Connued struggle to win or

lose
Fights for upperhand over

others
When needs are not in the vengeful relationship, the relationship

moves out to
9.3.3 Domineering relationship
Controlled by the winner
Loss of mutual respect
FOCUS
ON SELF
Loser manipulates, stops

geng needs met
Losers skill unused
9.3.4 Separatist relationship

When an individual or a group win control over other individuals or
group, relationship moves out to separatist relationship.
FOCUS
ON
SELF
Needs unmet
Problems unsolved
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Mutual mistrust
Others unconcerned
Accomplishments decreased
9.3.5 Termination
When situation turns hopeless for the dominated person or group,

relationship moves out to termination.
Despair
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Closer
Closure
Geng needs met at the expense

of another
FOCUS
ON
SELF
Relaonship deteriorates
Selfishness controls atudes
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9.4 The Leader and Relationship Problems
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Every leader faces relationship problems. They speak for his spiritual
immaturity. This trend cannot be suppressed but must sternly dealt
with and solved. This problem cannot be ignored or avoided. When
a sensible leader detects that his relationship is declining he must take
the following steps:
1. Admit your faults one to another (James 5:16, Matt. 6:1415).
Focus on your own mistakes and not on others.
2. Check the involvement of your selfishness in your leadership
style (Col. 3:13, Matt. 6:1415).
3. Recognize and admit the selfish ambition in your style
(Phil. 2:34)
4. Take decision to put others first better than yourself. Come to
the path of humility.
5. Change your actions. Be patient and be kind to others, never
be haughty, proud, envious and rude (1 Cor. 13:47).
Note: Remember, people are not the same. They are difficult to get along. If
youre soon touchy and get easily irritated of people for their ways, attitude,
speech, etc. and try to avoid them, they point to the weaknesses in your own
attitude and character.
Thank God for people relationships.
They sharpen us and train us to be the best leaders.
Study Guide
1. Separate the Ten Commandments into two kinds of relationship.
2. What is the biblical system of working relationship in contrast to
the world system?
3. .....................are central to all relationships.
4. The function of relationships is......................................................

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5. When the needs are met.................................................................

....................When the needs are not met......................................
.............................................................
6. Illustrate the four types of working relationships with the help of a
diagram.
7. Explain the cooperative relationship with the help of a diagram
8. Relationship remains as long as ................................... It moves
out when ............................
9. What are the characteristics of vengeful relationship?
10. What are the characteristic of domineering relationship?
11. What are the characteristics of a separatist relationship?
12. What are the characteristics that lead to termination?
13. State the steps a leader should take when he detects a decline in his
relationships.
Chapter 10
ERRORS IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP
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(Lessons from the Errors of Bible Characters)
The Bible is like a candid camera. It records the stories of people exactly
as they are without hiding their human traits and failures. Their successes
are recorded for us to follow. Their mistakes and failures are recorded as
a warning to us to avoid. Apostle Paul tells that all these incidents and
details are recorded in the Bible that we may take examples from them
and make the right choices and decisions (1 Cor. 10:6).
Therefore, we deal with the failures first for our caution.
Longfellow once said, Sometimes we may learn more from a
mans errors, than from his virtues.
Though there are many Bible characters we can list and learn
lessons from, I want to present before you the lessons we could learn
from the failures of just a few leaders. This selection is made considering
the qualities and characteristics needed in leadership.
10.1 Jacob
10.1.1 He showed favoritism to Joseph.

He committed the same mistake his father Isaac did using irritation,
jealousy, conflict and division in the family. Isaac loved Esau over Jacob
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while his wife Rebecca loved Jacob over Esau. Jacobs favoritism caused
friction among the children and they hated Joseph.
Jacob gave a coat of many colors to Joseph and that symbolized
the position of leadership the father bestowed on him when he was
only a minor, just 17 years of age. It was a long robe with sleeves which
signified that Joseph was the leader and he did not have to labor like
the other sons. If anyone was to wear this type of coat it would have to
be the eldest son Reuben. But Jacob made new clothes of many colors
with sleeves for Joseph, every time the robe was worn out.
Joseph was surely a God-chosen leader for the future.
Nevertheless, he was immature. The father made a mistake in
announcing him as the leader too early. Because of the immaturity
of Joseph he began to brag about his position. His brothers hated
him for this. Adding to that, Joseph began to declare his dream,
publicly confirming that he would be the leader and the brothers
would bow down before him. The unwise and hasty move of Jacob
resulted in the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites (Midianites). For
thirteen long years Joseph suffered as a slave and a prisoner of Egypt.
He went through the fiery furnace that the dross of his immaturity be
removed and become the Prime Minister of Egypt in Gods perfect
timing.
Jacob erred in announcing Joseph as a leader when he was only 17.
This was because of his favoritism towards the son of his old age
through his favorite wife Rachel. This hasty and unwise move, without
divine discernment brought pain in the family and to the Hebrews
temporarily.
Of course God had planned Joseph to be the leader and savior
of the Hebrews. But Joseph had to be tested and tried by God for
thirteen years. As Christian leaders we are to wait and see the maturity
of believers before setting them apart publicly to leadership positions
(1 Tim. 3:6).
I do personally know of a leader in a Christian organization who
disregarded the counsel of the Board Members. He lifted one young
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man to top leadership of the organization showing favoritism on the

basis of human sympathy and blood relation. That young man, who
never had a clear vision for the Lords work, turned the ministry into a
lucrative business for him after toppling the kindly leader who loved
him and raised him from the dust.
Apostle Paul gave clear instruction that novices should not be
raised to leadership (1 Tim. 3:6). Not a novice, lest being puffed up with
pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.There are many
cases where the church disobeyed this admonition and appointed new
converts to high positions. There is a tendency for these babies in
Christ to get puffed up and become arrogant and un-teachable.
10.2 Moses
God labeled Moses as the meekest man on the face of the earth
(Num. 12:3). He was raised and trained in the palace of Pharaoh. He
loved his own people, the Hebrews. He wanted to liberate them from
the cruel slavery of Egypt, before God called him for that task. Moses
felt in himself that he was strong and able to do the job. He was selfconfident. He depended on his abilities.
10.2.1 His first mistake
When he went down to see the burdens of his people, his heart was
moved with a mixture of compassions to the Hebrew and anger
against the Egyptian who was beating him. In a terrible fit of anger,
he lifted his hands and smote the Egyptian and killed him. He looked
this way and that way but failed to look up to God for guidance.
(Exod. 2:1125). He thought he did a good job. But the Egyptians and
his own people, the Hebrews, became angry and rose against him. King
Pharaoh sought to kill him. So Moses had to flee to the wilderness of
Midian and start taking care of the sheep of Jethro the priest of Midian.
Moses had to wander in the wilderness for 40 long years because of this
mistake.
Moses depended on his own strength. He did not ask the counsel
of God. He did not wait for Gods time. He could not overcome his
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terrible anger. Moses was Gods man for the deliverance of his people.
However, Moses required training under the hand of God. All the
training he got from the Egyptian palace, however great it was, could
not make him fit for the ministry of delivering and leading the people
of God. So, God had to make him go through a painful process of
training for 40 long years in the wilderness while feeding the flock of
his father-in-law. This is a good lesson for all those who are tempted
to jump into Gods work feeling fit by their human and earthly
achievements. They need to be broken and moulded by the Lord in
His school of discipleship. We have already seen that this was true in
the case of Joseph also.
10.2.2 His second mistake
When God called Moses to assign him for the deliverance of the
Hebrews, he started giving excuses of inadequacy. The merciful and
patient God gave answers to every lame excuses. Even after God assured
him that He would give him the ability to speak in every situation,
Moses insisted that another person be his substitute. This showed his
lack of faith and trust in God. It hurt the heart of God. The anger of
the Lord was kindled against Moses. But the longsuffering and merciful
God did not withdraw his calling on Moses. God provided him with a
spokesman, Aaron his brother, a Levite. As history unfolded, we saw
Aaron was rather a curse than a blessing. He pioneered idolatry and
manufactured a golden calf for the people of God to bow down and
worship. (Exod. 32).
This is a serious mistake we often commit when the Lord wants to
lift us up in leading the flock of God. Our excuses of inadequacy may
externally seem as signs of humility. But in reality they are proofs of
our doubt in God and his character. This is an insult to God. God may
give us the craving of our hearts in his anger that we may learn and
good lesson through the hard way. Gods perfect will and direction is
the best for us. All others will be the second best which may result in
pains and heart aches.
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In Numbers chapter 20 we read a serious error committed by Moses.

In the wilderness of Zin in the land of Kadesh, the people of Israel
contended against Moses because there was no water for them to drink.
Moses and Aaron went to the door of the tabernacle and fell on their
faces seeking the intervention of the Lord. God answered immediately.
He asked Moses to take his rod and speak to the rock. God assured a
flow of enough water from the rock for all people.
Here again Moses could not overcome his short temper! In his
anger he failed to glorify God. He spoke unwisely and lifted himself
before the rebellious crowd, Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring
water for you out of the rock? (v. 10). Instead of talking softly and
announcing that it is God who will bring water out of the rock, Moses
owned the source for himself and Aaron! In his uncontrolled anger
Moses smote the rock twice. God was angry. The Lord declared that
Moses would not enter the land of Canaan because of this disobedience.
10.2.4 Moses, the meekest man
Moses who forsook the riches of Egypt, the man who renounced the
pleasures of the palace, who overcame the pressures of the royal home,
the man who longed to lead Gods people to the Promised Land was
prohibited from entry! How painful!
Church history tells the stories of some great leaders who could
not finish well because of one wrong decision, one emotional outburst,
one serious error. If the meekest man on earth failed in this, how much
more discerning and careful we should be?
10.3 Balaam
Balaam was the prophet of God with the unique ability of foretelling
the future (Num. 22:6). He correctly prophesied the future of Moab,
Edom, Seir, Amalek and Assyria (24:1724). He was to use his calling,
capacity and gift only for the glory of God and for the welfare of His
people. But he became a hired gun in the hands of Balak the heathen

king to curse Gods people for a fee. Of course God did not allow him
to curse the Hebrews. However Balaam committed three serious sins.
10.3.1 He withheld the truth
10.3.2 He was greedy
Balaam knew that the Israelites were no threat to Moab or Midian,

because such an attack was not required on their route to the Promised
Land (Deut. 2:9). He withheld this truth from the kings of Midian
and Moab. If they had been told this truth, the demand to curse Israel
would not have come up.
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God had told him earlier that he should not go with the entourage of
Balak. The Lord told him that he should not curse Israel because they
are a blessed nation (Num. 22:12). But at the insistence of Balaam
God permitted him to accompany Balak. The obvious intension was
his greed for silver and gold. He wanted to use his God-given talents
for selfish gains and material prosperity.
10.3.3 He plotted for immorality and idolatry

God directed Balaam from cursing Israel. God forbade Balaam to
bless Israel. Balaam was disappointed. He knew he would not be
rewarded. So Balaam designed a criminal plot against the people
of God. He induced the Midianites and the Moabites to use
their women to seduce the Israelites and then get them to worship
the idol Baal Peor (Num. 31). This advice resulted in the death of
24,000 Hebrews through a plague that was a divine punishment
for idolatry and immorality. Balaam was also eventually killed
by the Hebrews in Midian together with five of the Midian
kings.
Balaam was a leader chosen and anointed by God with divine
abilities. But he did not employ his gifts in the correct manner. He
used his capacities for selfish interests and financial gains. He used his
divine talent against the people of God. He met his end as a backslider.
He died with the enemies of God.
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Church history tells the stories of many God chosen leaders

becoming victims of greed. Some leaders have misused organization
money to purchase rubber estates, tea estates, lands, buildings and
businesses for themselves and their children. Some leaders who started
as Bible Believing Leaders have left sound doctrine and followed false
and heretic doctrines for the sake of better money, more power and
position. Balaams story challenges all of us to use all our capabilities
only for the glory of God and the welfare of his church. It is a warning
to all Christian leaders who accumulate personal wealth on the pretext
of Gods advice. It is a caution to all those who use their God-given
talents and capabilities for the wrong cause.
10.4 Haman
Haman was one of the most important advisors to Ahasuerus, the king
of Persia. He was a successful leader, but he could not stand the fact that
one Jew, Mordecai did not bow to him as he often passed by him. This
was because Mordecai had a religious reason. Jewish religion would
not allow him to bow to a mortal (Esth. 3:26). Haman should have
ignored this slight knowing it was not meant to offend him. But he
took strong offence to this action and felt insulted. Therefore, Haman
plotted to eradicate the whole Jewish population. He purchased the
permission from the king by paying 10,000 silver talents to the treasury.
But Haman was unaware that Queen Esther was a Jewish woman
raised by her uncle Mordecai. Because of her timely interference the
tables were turned against Haman. He and his 10 sons were hanged
publicly and their wealth confiscated by the government. To this day
the Jewish people celebrate Purim to commemorate this event.
From this historic incident, we learn some precious truths of
leadership. If you are slighted or felt insulted, do not make that a big
issue. Try to ignore the offence. Vengeance in such a large scale, aiming
to kill millions, is not appropriate for a leader just because one small
offence has occurred through one person!
Obsession for personal aggrandizement is destructive.
10.5 King Saul

Three mistakes of King Saul are
10.5.1 Jealousy
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Saul was the first king of Israel appointed by God and anointed by
Samuel. He ruled well in the initial years of his reign. He did valiantly
in the battle against the Ammonites (1 Sam. 10&11). But he became
jealous of his son-in-law, David, because of his great victory over
Goliath and the Philistines. Saul did not like the applause and praises
that were rendered to the young warrior. Saul hated the songs of the
women who shouted, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten
thousand (1 Sam. 18:7). From that time Saul became obsessed with
the determination to kill David. In anger he wiped out all the priests in
a town that provided food to David who was on the run (1 Sam. 22).
David and his band were quite formidable and defeated the
Amalekites (1 Sam. 30). It is recorded that King Saul and his three sons
died in the battle with the Philistines. Saul did not like his son-in-law
becoming stronger and greater. Here we learn two precious lessons in
spiritual leadership.
(a) Do not regret but rejoice when your disciples whom you trained
become better and greater than you.
(b) Saul should have requested David to assist him in all the battles.
Jointly working King Saul could have been the victor always.
A precious lesson in Godly leadership found here: If you are a leader,

you must overcome emotional outbursts, irritation, insult and jealousy
and work together with the team for the corporate good. There is no
place for personal ego in Christian leadership. Church history is filled
with in-fights among leaders, conflict and division causing weakness
and defeat for the church and Christian organizations.
10.5.2 Presumption
In 1 Samuel 13 we read that the Philistines came with a large army to
battle against Israel. King Saul was nervous and scared. Prophet Samuel
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was away. Saul waited seven days for him in Gilgal, but he did not
come. Then King Saul said, Bring a burnt offering and peace offering
here to me. And he offered the burnt offering. Saul performed an
unlawful sacrifice. Only a priest could perform this. Samuel was the
only man who was authorized to do this. But Saul in his pride and
presumption, posing important because he was king, performed what
he was not supposed to do. He interfered in the ministry of the priest,
Samuel. This displeased God. Therefore, his kingdom was taken away
from him.
This is a warning to all leaders. As a leader you should not interrupt
or interfere in the responsibilities and powers of another leader, even
though you may be higher in the ladder of the chain of leadership. God
will not be pleased with it. That will also cause irritation, insult and
frustration resulting in vocal conflict and visible division.
10.5.3 Partial obedience (disobedience)
The Lord commanded King Saul through the prophet Samuel to attack
and utterly destroy the Amalekites and their livestock (1 Sam. 15). The
king defeated the Amalekites and killed everything that was worthless
and despised. But he spared their king, Agag and also best of the cattle
with the lame excuse that these best animals were for sacrifice to God.
The anger of the Lord kindled against King Saul for his partial
obedience which in fact was disobedience to the Lords command.
Incomplete obedience is disobedience. Prophet Samuel rebuked Saul
and announced that God had taken away the kingdom from him.
From that time on, Prophet Samuel severed his contact with Saul.
Gods presence and power departed from Saul. He could no longer
receive the counsel and directions from God, though Saul continued to
rule for 20 years more. He ruled without the power of God.
It is sad and painful to watch Christian leaders continuing to
lead the church and Christian organizations even after the Lord had
departed from them. Many leaders have started well but they could
not continue well and they could not finish well. They may hold on to
positions even after God has stopped using them.
10.6 David
David was a great king, poet, psalmist and warrior. He was a great
leader. However he failed in two areas. A man after my own heart
was the approval rate God bestowed on him. He was known as the
nightingale of the mountains of Palestine because of his melodious
singing and inspiring psalms. He was chosen and anointed by God as
the king of Israel. But he committed serious sins that resulted in lifelong wars, heart aches and tears.
10.6.1 He condoned immorality and denied timely

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Amnon was his eldest son and in line for the throne. He fell in love
with his step-sister and raped her (2 Sam. 13). David heard about
this and was very angry. But David unfortunately did not punish or
even rebuke Amnon. Absalom was the full-brother of Tamar. He
became furious and bid his time to take revenge. After two years
he arranged for the assassination of Amnon. Absalom also incited
a rebellion against his father David and chased him out of the
throne and into exile. David ultimately was able to defeat Absalom
costing a great number of lives. Absalom was also killed. David was
so devastated at the death of his beloved son Absalom and cried
bitterly for him.
As a leader, King David should have dealt with the sin of Amnon.
He should have punished him. David covered the crime of Amnon.
Justice was denied. Law was broken. This injustice by his father surely
did irritate and offend Absalom. That could have been the main reason
for Absalom to rebel against his father, run him out of the palace and
commit sin with his fathers concubines. The lesson here is very clear.
Leaders have to be scrupulous about injustice and should not ignore
injustices committed by subordinates, even if they are designated
successors. Deal strictly with injustice immediately! A precious lesson
for leaders!
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10.6.2 He fell in sexual immorality and murder:

(2 Sam. 11&12).
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Instead of concentrating on his administrative responsibilities as

king, without leading the army to the battle against Ammonites, he
spent his time idly in the palace. The proverb says, An idle brain is
the workshop of the devil. David saw Bathsheba, the beautiful wife
of Uriah taking bath. He brought her to the palace and committed
adultery with her. To hide his sin he arranged the death of her husband
Uriah, who thought that he being a powerful king he could commit
these crimes and injustice and escape the repercussions. I have seen a
table text in our Christian office, Flee from Gold, Glory and Girls! A
timely advice for all of us to take heed!
Study Guide
1. What was the result of Isaac and Rebecca showing favoritism?
2. How did Jacob show favoritism?
3. Account for Josephs immaturity as a leader.
4. Why the announcement of Joseph as a leader was without divine

discernment?
5. How did God test Joseph for 13 years?
6. What was the reaction to Moses anger?
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7. Moses was put through 40 years of hardships. What was Gods plan
in it?
8. What was Moses excuse when God called him? How did God deal
with it? Comment on Gods call and human excuses.
9. Did Moses speak unwisely to the people at the rock in the desert of
Zin? Explain the situation and its results.
10. What were the sins of Balaam?
11. What was Balaams intention in accompanying Balak?

12. What did Balaam plot against Israel when he was disappointed at
God making him to bless Israel?
13. What was the outcome of this plot?
14. What does Balaams story warn the leader about?
15. What is the background for Purim celebration?
16. What lessons do leaders learn from this historic event?

17. What two precious lessons do we learn from Sauls jealousy over
praises accorded to David?
18. Leaders should overcome................., ......................., ..................
and ................... There is no place for ............................. Do not
pose yourself.................................. Do not interfere or interrupt
anothers...........................
19. Incomplete obedience is ......................

20. What were the results of Sauls disobedience?
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Chapter 11
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF TIME
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(Time Management for Effective Leadership)
In leadership and management, time management is equally

important as people management is. All of us have got equal time
24 hours for the day. Some people complete all their works and reserve
enough time for rest, relaxation, recreation, entertainments and to be
with family and children. There are others who do not find sufficient
time to finish their work and, needless to say, that they have no time
for family, friends and relaxation. Great leaders always found time to
rest and reflex. It is said about Jesus that he took time to rest and he
asked his disciples, Come apart and rest a while (Mark 6:31).
Jesus never hurried. He was never under stress and tension.
your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience
Let me draw your attention to some important techniques in
handling your time, to get the maximum out of it and yet save enough
time to rest:
11.1 Value of Time (As Circulated on the Internet)

To realize the value of one yearask a student who failed
a grade.
To realize the value of one monthask a mother who gave
birth to a premature baby.
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To realize the value of one weekask the editor of a weekly

Newspaper.
To realize the value of one hourask the lovers who are
waiting to meet.
To realize the value of a secondask the person who just
escaped a traffic accident.
To realize the value of a millisecondask the person who
won the Olympic medal.
11.2 Benefits of Time Management (More Mancini)
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Time is infinite.
Every minute in frustration we waste is minute subtracted from
the time allotted. In timemanaged life we benefit:
Sense of accomplishment.
Gratification of recognition of a job well done.
Financial rewards.
Less stress
More confidence
Greater fulfillment
Reduced frustration
Increase in the on-the-job productivity
Helps the front-line staff to refine their own time
management to make their job easier and more
productive.
Helps to apply the skills learned at home, outside the
workplace, in relationship with family and friends.
Time has greater value than any currency
We may leave our children the money we dont use in
our life time, but we cannot leave them one millisecond
of time.
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11.3 Scheduling of Time
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PrioritizeFollow a chart and undertake the tasks in order

of urgency and importance.
Give up the myth that you should do them all and that you
can do them all.
Learn to delegate. Have faith in the teammates and give
them some of the responsibilities, choosing them matching
the task.
Schedule breaks. Just as a bow needs unwinding for stronger
grip, we should pause from the task for brief periods to get
better performance.
11.4 Prioritizing
An illustration: Duckling swim behind their mother in a perfect line. If

any duckling stray too far, the mother duck pushes it into the line, thus
the phrasegetting her ducks in a row.
The meaning: If you deal with things in a logical, orderly sequence, you
are sure to bring efficiency and results to your efforts. If you stray too
far, danger is there for you and others.
prioritizing systems:
There are five prioritizing systems:

1. The ABC system
2. Index card/post it system
3. Inventory system
4. Pay-off system
5. Pareto principles
Here we are discussing only the ABC system.
11.4.1 ABC system

To find a ranking process just right for your style and disposition. This
system is practised by more organizationsensitive people. All tasks can
and should be given an A, B, C value.

A
Tasks that must be done soon. When accomplished yields extraordinary
results. If left alone generates serious consequences. Immediacy as a
priority is all about criticalness and sensitivity.
B
Tasks that should be done soon. As A they are important. They

can be postponed but not for long. They can easily rise A status.
important but slightly lesser time sensitive than a tasks.
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Tasks that can be put off. Do not create dire consequences. Can linger
in the category indefinitely. Those tied to a distant completion date
may eventually rise to A & B levels. not time sensitive yet.
D
Tasks that are theoretically not needed to be done. They are rarely put
to a dead-line. No obvious or adverse effects. When you attend to them
they yield surprising results. optional, nice but neither important
nor time sensitive.
A tasks (A&B)
1. Tasks that must be done
soon
B tasks (C&D)
1. Tasks that can be put off
When accomplished they yield Can linger in the category

extraordinary results. Critical and indefinitely.
sensitive. No postponement.
No dire consequences.
Tied to a distant completion date.
Not time-sensitive unless rising to A
B levels.
2. Task that should be done 2. Tasks that are theoretically

no need to do
Important but can be postponed for Rarely given a dead-line for

a short period.
accomplishments.
No adverse effects.
Slightly less time-sensitive.
Optional, Nice, neither important
nor time-sensitive.
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11.4.2 How to apply this system
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Make a list of 10 things you would like to accomplish

tomorrow.
Select from this list 4 items you really expected to do.
Rank them in order of importance.

* The first two as A tasks.

* The second two as B tasks.
From your list of 10 choose two more items to be done
tomorrow, but can be put off, if necessary. These are C
tasks.
The remaining 4 items are nice to do but in no way pressing.
These are D tasks. (You may do them if you have nothing
better to do and feel ambitious and motivated).
11.4.3 How to weigh the tasks so as to assign priority

1. High pay-offs: The tasks that will provide high return or investment.
Task that you alone can do should be delegated.
Companys
goals
Personal/professional goals
High pay-off
TASKS
High pay-off
Companys
goals
Personal/professional goals
TASKS
2. Essential to goals: Tasks that are absolutely critical, meeting personal

and professional goals. Essential to your bosss goalstasks that your
boss regard as most important.

3. Essential to your companys goals: Tasks that will most benefit your
company providing it with best return on investment.
Note: Prepare the priority list in the evening, not in the morning. Review
it in the morning. Make changes that you want.
11.5 Stop Procrastination
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i. Set a reward for yourself

for finishing the task on
time.
ii. Be accountable to a friend
you respect to check on
your work progress and
finishing at the deadline.
iii. Before going to bed at
night, list the works for
the next day prioritizing
them.
11.6 Learn to Say No
Do not be swift to say yes to every invitation and assignments. Carefully

accept a task only after making sure you have the ability and time to
deliver it. It is an unwise response to say, maybe I will or let me see
or I think I can come. If you fail to fulfill, your reputation is at stake
and others will be hurt. What to say no to?
Two questions to ask yourself:
1. What will this commitment mean? E.g. You are asked to be a

member in a committee. Now ask yourself
When does it meet?
How often does it meet?
How long are the meetings?
What does it do?
What would my responsibilities be?
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Are there any allied duties outside the meeting time?

How long would I be expected to serve in the committee?
Try to anticipate any unvoiced or unexpected responsibilities that may
emerge later before you say yes or no.
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2. If I have to take on this commitment, would it, considering what

I have planned, be a good use of time? E.g. Compared to my normal
duties, does this obligation seem worthy? If yes, then it merits my time.
If not, maybe I should say no.
How to say no
Give a good solid reason to your decision. Not simply
declining.
Be diplomatic. That is essential when turning down
anything. A curt no can hurt, upset or even create anger.
Suggest a trade-off. Show your willingness to find some
other way to contribute. For e.g., if the boss suggests you
to do something and you are sure that you are the wrong
person, explain your perceptions and suggest taking another
task which is to be done.
Dont put off your decision. Let me think it over is a term
people use for postponement and an ultimate no. This is
unfair. Be courageous. If you know you cannot and will not
do, be decisive and say no.
Unplug. Do not keep yourself always connected and reachable. There
are times you should choose to be unreachable and unconnected.
You do not have to answer every twitter and mobile message
immediately. You need not make return calls urgently. When you
have an important and time-bound task, concentrate on that and make
yourself disconnected, even by setting your phones in the switch off
mode and restricting the visitors.
11.7 Take Time Off

It is a healthy habit for preachers, pastors and administrators to take
a time off and be away in an isolated place for meditation or with
family and friends on a picnic. Even in games the players are given
half time which, in reality, is a time to rest, reshuffle the team and
consider different tactics. Get enough rest and sleep.
Do one more thing before going to bed. That will give you a
satisfaction and better sleep.
Apostle Paul exhorts us to use the time wisely (Eph. 5:15,16). He
talks of some people who are indisciplined in the use of time. They are
busy bodies. Accomplishing nothing (2 Thess. 3:11)
- Time cant be stopped.
- Time cant be stored.
- Time cant be stretched.
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Consume as we get it. Time wasted, gone forever.
11.8 How to Schedule Your Time

List activities:
Time with God

Time with family
Time for personal well-being
Items left over from yesterday
Appointments
Calendar programs
Job descriptions
Regular commitments
Letters
Phone calls
Items to follow up
jethros advice to moses

and the management principles and ideas they suggest
(Exod. 18:1327)
v. 13
=Observation and personal inspection
v. 14
=Questioning (Discerning inquiry)
v. 16
=Conflict resolution, correction
v. 17
=Judgment
v. 18
=Evaluation of effect on leader and people
v. 19
=Coaching, counseling,
procedures
representation,
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establishing
v. 20, 21 =Teaching, demonstration, of specification, delegation.

Select, establish qualification, assign responsibilities,
chain of command.
=Span of control, judging evaluationappraisal,
Limits of decision-making, management by exception.
v. 23
=Explanation of benefits
v. 24
=Listening, implementation
v. 25
=choosing, selecting, assign responsibility, span of control
v. 26
=Judgingevaluation, management by exception
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Ask if assigned, can someone do them? So that you can be free for other
works.
Someone, skilled form the staff, for example, ordering supplies
and getting can be done by a secretary (Make sure that you make it
clear what you want him to do for you)
11.9 Assessment of Priorities
Assess priorities of remaining activities. # What determines priority?

Knowledge of priority is the secret of gaining control of your schedule
An activity is important only when it helps achieve the objectives
An activity is not important if it does not help you achieve
the objective*
Fill the schedule with important activities
Now ask
How much does each of these activities help me achieve objectives?
Answers: Lot?
Some?
Very little?
Not at all?

To prioritize means to arrive at one overall rating of the activity in
the light of its importance and urgency.
Committing activities to time
Takes place every week.
Already committed priorities
T = Top priority
H = High priority
These activities will
M = Medium priority
not take place when T & H
L = Low priority
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Place your weekly priority in this order.
T&H = Takes place every week in the same time slot.
Remaining items, put into schedule allowing each adequate time.

Transfer the priorities (up or down) as their nature of importance.
Schedule time for meals, relaxation, travel time, telephone calls, etc.
Weekly me-slot
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Weekly me-slot
E.g. 10 hrs per day for 6 days = 60 hrs
50 hrs
T = Top priority
H = High priority
M = Medium priority
L = Low priority
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50
30 hrs
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T&H
take
place
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take
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whenever
in same
the same me
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30
20
10 hours
15 hrs
10
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T H
M
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Weekly acvies to me
M&L will not take place

when T&H are in funcon
Put into schedule with
adequate me,
the remaining items.
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Study Guide
1. In leadership greatest mistakes can happen because of .......................
2. Comment on come apart and rest a while (Mark 6:31) in relation
with management of time.
3. Mention five benefits of a time-managed life.
4. Time is ......................... Time has value ................ Increase in

.......................
5. How to schedule time? a........... b........... c............ d............
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6. What do you understand by Prioritize?
7. All tasks can and should be given an A, B, C value what does the
ABC system include?
8. How to apply ABC system?
9. How to prioritize tasks?
10. What is procrastination? How is it kept in check?

11. How and when to use the word no?
12. When should a leader be unreachable?
13. What do you understand by taking time off?

14. List activities to schedule your time.
15. Bring out the management principles and ideas from Jethros advice
to Moses.
16. Knowledge of priority is the secret of ........................ An activity
is important only when................ An activity is not important if it
.............................
17. When should we prepare priority list?
18. What do you understand by (1) Let me think it over (2) Unplug
(3) Trade-off
19. Ephesians 5:15,16 and 2 Thessalonians 3:11 suggest the three
natures of time. What are they?

20. What cautions are to be taken when you assign your job to
someone?
21. To prioritize means .......................................................................
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22. How will you commit activities to time?
Chapter 12
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LEADERSHIP AND FINANCE
Money plays a large role in the lives of every leader and in the day to
day functions of every ministry. Therefore God does have a plan for our
money which means bringing our money under His ruling.
12.1 Our Attitude to Money
our attitude to money is important

the principle is: What my attitude to money will be my
attitude to God.
money and god cannot be given equal status
biblical principle is: You cannot serve God and mammon.
Youll love one and hate the other (Matt. 6:24).
reaction is: You hold one, despise the other.
# Mammon is not merely money, it is more than that. It is an evil

power that enslaves people through the medium of money where a
man puts money first and God later. When a man loves money it
enslaves him against God. Money is good but the love of money is evil
(1 Tim. 6:911). There is no neutrality in this.
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12.2 Money, Ministry and the Leader
A ministry has to be established in the laws of prosperity before it can

function properly. It has to come under the check and in balance in
Gods divine system of prosperity.
For the ministry and the leaders the choice is not whether youll
serve God or not, but whom youll serveGod or prosperity. Here lies
a question of priority (Matt. 6:33)Gods kingdom or the material/
financial things.
12.2.1 Two priorities: First, seeking gods kingdom
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Do not run after money

You seek Gods kingdom
You seek Gods righteousness
You seek Gods purposes
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let money run after you
honor god with your wealth (Prov. 3:910)

how will money follow me?
If you walk in Godly prosperity think big, dream big. Get yourself to
think straight in line with Gods Word. Do not think of your past or of
your circumstances. And when you obey, believe and act on the Word
you are qualified for financial supply from God.
When you are in faith, money will be in your trail , because
provision of needs is Gods will for you when you and your works
are in according to His will. He gives exceeding abundantly above we
think or ask, according to His promise. (Luke 6:38).
two systems of prosperity
1. gods systems and laws of prosperity:
When you do
Gods will, obeying him and his words and acting on it in
faith you dont have to be concerned about money. You put
god first and money is sure to come. This is Money cometh
system.
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2. worlds systems and laws of prosperity: Someone is

always thinking about money, going after it, conniving to
get it, scheming every possible way to get it. This is Money
covetousness system.
12.2.2 Second, always keep god first
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Money will search for you and find you when youre doing the right
thing according to Gods Word. This is Gods Law of Prosperity. It will
assist you to think about money properly. It will assist you to handle
money properly. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of
the land (Isa. 1:19).
When you keep God first
- You say, Im willing, Im obedient.
- God will be the first person you talk
to, this morning.
- Youre conscious of Gods presence,
his goodness, his provisions are
uppermost in your heart and mind at
all times.
- Youll be aware who keeps you
breathing.
- You have constant communion and
fellowship with him.
- You are consecrating yourself, every
part of your body under his control.
- All things are yours (Matt. 6:33).
- You will prosper with the right
attitude.
- It is God who owns everything, I
own nothing. It is humility & fear
of the Lord (Prov. 22:14; 1 Pet. 5:6;
Matt. 5:5).
- It is God first, others second, and
me last.

When you keep God first -

He gives us extras, not just barely

meet our needs.
Joseph reserved food supply for
7 years ( Gen. 41:36)
Disciples gathered extra 12 baskets
full ( Mk. 6:43
David said, My cup overflows
(Psalm 23: 5)
When you keep God first - He will fill your treasures (Prov. 8:21).
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Godly prosperity does not come overnight. he brings it to you

gradually as you stick to just one simple rulekeep god first.
therefore
All things of the church and of the ministry are to be done decently and
in order (1 Cor. 14:40).
12.3 Handling FinanceFaithfully and Prudently

(1 Cor. 4:2)
Faithful handling (1 Cor. 4:2)
Prudent handling (Luke 19:23)
Faithful = Not to desire personal Prudent = Obligation under income

benefits.
tax.
Faithful = In reference to objectives.
Prudent = Obligations under other

statutory laws.
Faithful = vis--vis-donors
Prudent = To get maximum benefit.
Faithful = Accountable to God.
Prudent = When to invest and when

not to invest.
12.4 Accounting
3 Ms in accounts:
1. Maintenance of up-to-date accounts. Never put off for
tomorrow (Luke 9:16).
2. Making sure of the correctness of the accounts.
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3. Measurement of the financial resources and financial results at

the close of each year (Luke 9:15).
12.5 (a) Auditing (1 Cor. 4:2)
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Not only faithful but found faithful when books are audited.
@ statutory audit (i) Legal requirement in Societies Act.
(ii) Legal requirement in Income Tax Act.
Why Audit:
a. Detecting frauds.
b. Finding errors
c. Ensuring proper presentation.
(b) Internal Audit:
a. Helps spend less on unnecessary things.
b. Helps look into a particular area of fault.
c. Has no statutory limits.
12.6 Budgeting
Why budgeting?
a. It is biblical to budget (Luke 14:28).
b. There are laws that require budgeting for societies/trusts.
c. Budget guides the organizations to draw out:
i. Clear specific objectives.
ii. Ensure limiting factors.
iii. Identify key factors.
iv. Actual implementation of objectives.
Budget is not the job of the accountant but of a leader
who is in consultation with those who implement it.
12.7 Budgetary Control
A budget is complete only with budgeting control.

How?
a. Comparing performance and allocated expenditure.
b. Take corrective steps if not appropriate.

c. Control administrative expenditure.
d. Enforce tighter control when expenditure comes to 70 percent
of the budget and find reasons why and which department.
e. Check variations periodically.
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Note: Be Prudent
It is necessary to submit to the authorities (Rom. 13:15).

Respect the law of the country.
Be well informed of the laws, regulations, conditions laid down by
the governments from time to time.
Arrange to have regular consultants and lawyers on legal matters.
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Study Guide
1. What is Mammon?
2. With regards to prosperity, what is the choice placed before the
ministries or the leader?
3. Our attitude to money will be ................................ Money and

God cannot be given ..............
4. Comment in a paragraph on Matthew 6:24.
5. Gods kingdom first means:
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a. You seek ......................................

b. You seek ......................................
c. You seek ......................................
6. What things qualify me for his supply?
7. What brings provisions for my trail?
8. Gods will for me is ..............not ......................
9. Compare and contrast the two systems of prosperity.

10. What is Gods law of prosperity?
11. What will Gods law do to us?
12. Mention the benefits we receive when we keep God first.

13. Handling finance faithfully and prudently (1 Cor. 4:2). Explain
how these are done.
14. Write a paragraph each on the 3 Ms in accounts.
15. Why is auditing necessary?
16. Differentiate between statutory audit and internal audit.

17. Expand remark found faithful (1 Cor. 4:2).
18. Why do we need to budget?
19. Is it biblical to budget? (Luke 14:28) Expand.
20. What are the functions of budget?

21. How budgetary control is done?
22. Comment in a paragraph each:
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a. It is necessary to submit to authorities.

b. Is it necessary to respect the law of the country?
c. Is it necessary to have regular consultants and lawyers?
Chapter 13
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ROLE OF COMMUNICATION IN LEADERSHIP

Communication is the process we go through to convey understanding
from one person or group to another. Unless understanding occurs we
have not communicated (Matt. 13:51).
A leader should be a communicator. He needs to be clear,
articulate and simple in words. Be brief, but clear. Do not be worried
of explaining. Take time. Do not take for granted thinking, They
might already know. Do not excuse, yourself saying, Others may
have told him. Communication breakdown is a normal and frequent
cause for serious gaps that occur, resulting in the serious deadlock in
the organization.
Why communication?
Communication is extremely important for development.
Genesis 11:19 show that communication is the basis of unlimited
group innovation, creativity and achievement. In the human attempt
for the building of Babel there was utter failure because of the
impossibility of communication. God confused their language and
scattered them because of their sin of pride. God confused their
language and scattered them.
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13.1 Meaning of Communication
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A. Frequently thought as simply transmitting a message (ideas,

thoughts, attitudes, information etc) from one person to
another. This is known as message centered communication.
It implies the mastery. Understanding of facts and information
of the sender and how skillfully and articulately he does it and
brings sure success. Here emphasis is placed on the sender (the
message formulator) instead of the receiver.
B. The behavioral scientists suggest: The transactional approach
which places emphasis on the meaning being transmitted,
rather than just the message itself. The receiver is equally as
important as the sender if this transaction is to occur.
13.2 Communication Essentials (Fundamentals

by Peter Druker)
13.3.1 Communication is perception
It is the recipient who communicates not the one who emits

communication. There is no communication unless someone hears or
receives. He must perceive what is being said or written.
13.2.2 Communication is expectation
Know what the recipients expect to see or hear and work within that
framework. For this, managers and subordinates participate in goalsetting, planning, evaluation and traininghelps to listen first.
13.2.3 Communication makes demands
Communication always makes demands on the receiver to become

somebody, believe something, and perform something. When
communication fits in with the aspirations, values and purposes of the
receiver it is powerfulif not rejected.
13.2.4 Communication & information are different yet

interdependent
Communication is perception. Information is logic (impersonal &
specific). Communication improves with levels of meaning it has. It
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may not depend on information. Perception rather than information

is the prime factor in communication
13.3 Causes of Communication Failure (Don Fabun)

1. Assumingthat everyone knows what you are talking about.
2. Assumingyou know what others are talking about (without
asking questions to make sure)
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To avoid this misunderstanding, we must ask:

Who said so?
What did he say?
What did he mean?
How does he know?
13.4 Two Important Communication Processes

1. Interpersonal communication is inevitable. When two persons
are together they communicate by talks or looks.
2. Interpersonal communication includes both content and
information about the content.
Tone of voice and body language speak loudly about what is really
meant by what is being said. But real communication is more than
verbalization.
Having a deep feeling for subordinates is the key to building
bridges in human relations. Otherwise it will affect quality work and
attitudes.
Suggestions to help communication:
1. Stop talking. But listen.
2. Put the talker at easehelp him so that he feels free to talk.
3. Show him that you want to listen. Look and act like you are
interested. Listen to understand rather than to reply.
4. Remove distractions. Shut the door or move aside. Do not
shuffle or keep writing and do not play with mobile.
5. Empathize with them. Try to put yourself in his place to see
his point.
6. Be patient and allow plenty of time. Do not interrupt him.

Dont start for the door and walk away.
7. Hold your temper: An angry man gets the wrong meaning of
word.
8. Go easy on argument and criticism. This puts him on the
defensive. He may calm down or get angry . But you should
not get angry even if you lose.
9. Ask questions. This encourages him and shows you are
listening. It helps develop points further.
10. Stop talking. This is first and last.
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You cant listen when you are talking- all other commands depend on
this.
When good communication exists, it helps to create a solid form
of understanding with in the organization. People are motivated to
accomplish their assignments. Feedback will be automatic. Attitudes
are elevated.
13.5 Models of Communication
13.5.1 Three models of communication
1. One-way communication: This is Action communication. This kind

of communication was developed in 1940s. One man tells all what he
wants and others listen and obey. There is the source of communication
and the Receiver of communication. This is like inoculation. Preachers
often follow this style of communication. They lecture on a topic and
do not give opportunity for the listeners to interact.
2. Two-ways communication: This is an interaction communication. It
has the source, receiver and feedback. It is a linear process. It is like
stimulus and response. It is like cause and effect.
3. Transactional model of communication: All view points are taken
and respected. Then conclusion is made without compromise. This is
practiced in dialogue and group discussions.
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Without communication you travel alone says a proverb. Therefore

learn the skill of communication clearly, convincingly, with enthusiasm
and passion.
John Maxwell says, Education takes something simple and makes
it complicated. Communication takes something complicated and makes
it simple.
Take care on the following important matters in effective
communication:
a. Simplify your message. Avoid big words and complex sentences.
Learn to put the deep and high thoughts into simple words
that even children should understand.
b. See the person. Who is my audience? Focus on people in their
context. Become audience oriented. Look into their eyes.
c. Show the truth. People should see, hear and feel conviction
and passion in your eyes, voice and animation (body language).
d. Seek response. Lead the listeners to make response.
If you do not communicate, people will think you are proud. They will
think you do not respect them. If you love you will communicate. If
you do not communicate they will conclude you are not open to others
and you want them to get frustrated, and do not need them, that you
can do it alone, that you do not want to delegate!! You cant be a team
player without communication. You can insult people without it. You
can make them feel unwanted.
I was a witness to one national Christian mission organization
where an efficient office secretary served under two good leaders for
nearly 20 long years. When the new leader crept in, he wanted to get
rid of the secretary in order to bring in his pet candidate as the secretary
and accountant. Slowly he reduced communication with the senior
secretary. Later he took away some important responsibilities and
powers from her. She felt insulted, sidelined and unwanted. She had to
resign gracefully. The dictatorial young leader got rid of the secretary
by cunning manipulation and withholding communication.

IN COMMUNICATION there are 4 types of people:
1. PleasersThey agree to whatever others say.
2. ControllersThey dont allow others to talk.
3. AvoidersThey are not interested in change and new ideas.
13.6 Listening
4. Life-giversThey encourage and receive new ideas. They

interact and exchange views.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of peopleWinston
Churchill.
A good leader encourages his followers to tell him what he needs
to know, not what he wants to hear wrote John Maxwell. Listening
is a great leadership skill. God gave us two ears and one mouth to
speed double time listening because it is harder to listen than talking.
Bible gives more importance to listening than talking (James 1:19;
Job 32:1112; Prov. 18:13).
I have heard a wise saying, Many hear but few listen. And it is
true very often. There are some leaders who hear what others say but
they are not able to grasp and digest it because they are either distracted
or they do not give any importance to the discussion.
13.6.1 Benefits of good listening
By listening well
1. Cooperation increasedthey feel you are for them and respect
them.
2. Conflict avoidedNo communication gaps.
3. Better decisions madeUnity of purpose & methods.
4. Wise counsel can be givenYou put yourself in their shoes.
5. Costly errors preventedCollective wisdom.
6. Stress reducedYou do not carry it alone.
7. Learning is improvedIt is mutual.
8. Everyones effectiveness increased.
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9. People will be more open to new ideas when they know you
listen to them.
10. More responsibility and creativity in organization.
13.6.2 Obstacles to effective listening
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1. Focus on self: Concentrating only on what we are going to

say. How can I make an impression?
2. Wandering mind: Wandering thoughts when others talk to
you.
3. Leveling: Tendency to simplify the message to avoid listening
to hard truths.
4. Sharpening: Take only the point we know, or what stand out
and avoid other things. Familiar things we process and avoid
new ideas that are critical or challenging.
5. Assimilation: Shape what we hear to suit to what we already
know or believe.
6. Hearing what is expected: Just hearing what you expect to hear
and avoid the others.
7. Passive listeners: Choosing parts of the message, indifferently.
8. Trying to do other things while you listen.
9. Not valuing a conversation you did not initiate or you cant
control.
10. Jumping to conclusion before the other person finished.
11. Turning off: Unwilling to give attention to the speaker if
his voice, mannerism and appearance are not attractive or
appealing. I had been to places and people who will gather in
great number to see and listen to handsome preachers. They
avoid ugly faces!

ineffective communication
40% LISTENING
10% Wring
30% Talking
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impact of each aspect of communication
38% Vocal
12% Work
50% Body Language
13.6.3 How to make others listen to you

1. Know what you want to saymake early preparation.
2. Present yourself seriouslyeven the way you sit or stand.
Seriously / casually.
3. Speak with convictionlet that be seen & felt from your eyes
and voice.
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4. Know as much as possible about the listener. Show you are

interested in him.
5. Speak at their leveldo not be too high or too low.
6. Encourage feedbackPermit them to comment/ask questions.
7. Assist retentionsummarize and also repeat the points.
13.6.4 How can I make my speech interesting?
Make concise and precise points. No verbal meandering.

Utilize clear progression of thought.
Use plain talknot jargon.
Use appropriate quotations.
Research topic for current meaningful input.
Stick to time and subject to cover.
Use examples, illustrations from real-life experiencesfrom
theoretical to practical.
8. Maintain eyecontact.
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13.7 Communication in Christian Organizations

It is often difficult to communicate in churches/Christian organizations
because
1. There is a long built up tradition that glorifies authoritarian
pronouncements. Thus saith the LordGod has told me and
He has led me. So people feel they have nothing to contribute.
2. There is an assumption that we all understand each other as to
the Lords will. Therefore do not challenge another Christians
motive and actions. We do not want to be responsible for
rocking the boat.
How to evaluate communication performance in Christian

organizations?
Ask the following questions:
1. Is the management sincerely interested in the co-workers
needs and problems? Or is it only a profit picture?
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2. Does the top management keep in touch regularly with the

rank and file view-points?
3. Do the workers know who the top management is? (By name,
by sight).
4. Has the management ever taken the workers into confidence
about management problems and in solving them?
5. Does the management give useful information regularly to the
workers? Or, is the management busy with its management?
6. If communication takes place and the answer is yes from the
management does it check the effectiveness and credibility of
what it does or says. Or takes the workers for granted?
7. Is there a practical working method introduced that workers
can get their views to the management?
8. Do the workers feel they belong? If pressed, could they actually
prove it?
9. Does the top management encourage workers participation in
social programs, sports, civicpolitical activities? Or considers
them meaningless?
10. Is there a facility for grievances of complaint? Do the workers
know what to do if no appropriate decision is taken or the
decision taken is unfair?
Many Christian organizations, churches and missions are dying. There

was a time and place for them. They ultimately became absorbed with
their exorbitant overhead expenses rather than their long range goals.
A Christian organization founded by an individual with aboveaverage vision is a major problem. As a founder he usually makes most
of the decisions. The organization grows and he still makes decisions.
Time moves along, but he hangs on. It begins to die because decisionmaking and assignments have not been properly delegated. The
founder/leader has not grown in information and knowledge of the
changing times.
Here are the degeneration steps/stages of some dynamic
organizations in history:
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1. The man with a vision started a mission.

2. The mission became machine with emphasis on building and
gadgets.
3. The machine developed as a monument for the founder/
leader.
4. Monument grew up into a monster. It became a white
elephant, collecting contributions for specific projects and
ministries. But it spends much on machineries, gadgets, lands
and buildings. Overhead expenses become high. Very little is
spent for the original purposes. In this way many Christian
organizations have become a money making business.
13.8
What Does the
Communication?
Bible
Teach
About
A study of Genesis 11:19 reveals communication as God sees it.

The tower of Babel (Gen. 11:19) illustrates the role of
communication in organizations. On this point we observe:
The people had a communicable language.
Even God acknowledged that their effective communication
system united them behind a common goal and motivated
them to action.
We learn:
A good communication develops unity and motivation.
A good communication is the basis for unlimited group
innovation, creativity and achievement.
A good communication develops understanding
(Gen. 11:7).
Communication takes place when understanding
occurs (Matt. 13:51).
God reveals if communication is disturbed it can:
Destroy plans and goals
Destroy unity and motivation
Terminate a project

Therefore,
COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY TO
PERSONAL COMMITMENT
GROUP COMMITMENT
GROUP UNITY
CREATIVITY
MOTIVATION
UNDERSTANDING
PRODUCTIVITY
when communication collapses all these will collapse.
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# Today modern science proves what God has revealed in the Bible
years ago.
13.8.1 Communication involves two persons

1.

2.

The communicator (The person giving the message).

What does the communicator do?
Forms a clear understanding of what he wants to
communicate. Understands himself first the ideas and
feelings he wants to convey.
Conveys his ideas and feelings using the right words.
Does not show hesitance or reluctance to express
thoughts and feelings. Withholding them willingly or
revealing only a part that is likely acceptable will cause
severe misunderstanding.
The meaning of the words he uses to convey his ideas
and feelings must mean the same to the hearer.
The receiver (the one who receives the communication)
What does a receiver do?
He listens, absorbs and acts in spite of the barriers.
Brings out the right meaning of the words used by the
speaker so as to transmit the original ideas and feelings
without causing misunderstanding. If wrong meanings
are conveyed the communication can breakdown.
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How to bring out the right meaning?

Listen sensitively and ask questions for clarification.
Concentrate on what youre listening. Avoid
thinking on some points while listening.
Listen to the full message without interrupting.
Do not assume you already knew the rest of the
message. This will lead to misunderstanding.
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Two kinds of listening:

Disregarded listening: Listening with disliking for the
speaker or for the topics spoken. So a filtering of the
message is done.
Discerned listening: Listening for the meaning in the tone
of voice. Listen not only the words but also the ideas and
feelings behind the words. Ask for clarification.
While listening to controversial issues accept the ideas and
feelings of the communicator while you keep your own
views and opinions on the matter and then convey your
attitude that you only agree to disagree.
Communication is the life-blood of an organization because it is the

carrier of plans, decisions, ideas, and feelings to everyone and to every
part of the organization.
i. Blockadessuch as negative attitudes, low morale and
personality differences.
ii. Minimizationssuch as false assumptions, indifferent attitude
to information received, contrary actions to what is being said,
unacceptability of others ideas, distorting information for
personal reasons, etc., on the part of both the transmitter and
the receiver can choke the productivity of the organization.
These barriers can be reduced by

Simple words used to the point
Bringing attention, without speaking in between, when

someone speaks.
Allowing the speaker to speak freely his ideas which you
agree or disagree.
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Study Guide
1. On the basis of Matthew 13:51 what idea do you get about
communication?
2. If a leader is to be a communicator what dos and donts should he
observe?
3. Communication is extremely important because ...........................

.............
4. What is the frequently thought of idea about communication?
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5. What do you mean by message central communication?

6. What does The transactional approach emphasize?
7. State the 4 communication essentials:
8. It is the recipient who communicates not the communicator

because ...............
9. For what do managers and subordinates participate in goal-setting,
planning, evaluation and training?
10. What demands do communication make upon the receiver?
11. Communication is................
12. Information is ...................
13. ......................is the prime factor in communication.

14. Mention the two causes of communication failure.
15. Mention the two important communication processes.

16. Complete the sentences:
a. Tone of voice and body language speak ................................

..................................
b. Real communication is..........................................................
.................................
c. .........................................is the key to build up human
relations.

17. Mention the first five steps in communication.
18. Give reasons:
a. Hold your temper while communicating....................

b. Go easy on arguments while communicating...................
c. Ask questions while communicating........................
d. Stop talking back while communicating................
19. When good communication exists:
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a. Helps to........................................................
b. People are motivated to...........................................
c. ..........................will be automatic.
d. .............................are elevated.
20. State the three models of communication.
21. Define:
a. Action communication.
b. Inoculation type communication.
c. Interaction communication.
22.
Education takes something simple and...........................
communication takes something complicated and...........................
23. For effective communication:
24. What will be the reaction if you do not communicate?

List them
25. List the 4 types of people in communication.
26. A good leader encourages his followers to ......................................

27. List any 5 benefits of listening.
28. List any 5 obstructions to listening.
29. List any 5 steps to make others listen to you.

30. List any 5 points to make your speech interesting.
31. Give two reasons as to why it is difficult to communicate in
churches/Christian organizations.
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32. What lessons of communication do we learn from the tower of

Babel?
33. In the story of the tower of Babel God reveals that if communication
is disturbed, it can:
a.
b.
c.
34. What does the communicator do? Answer in one sentence.
35. What does the receiver do? Answer in one sentence.
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36. How to bring out right meaning?
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Chapter 14
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RAISING SUCCESSOR LEADERS
I have read this saying, Success without a successor is failure.

I have the great desire from early in life that I should strive hard to
raise leaders for the future. Therefore I have sincerely tried to mentor
younger people and to pave the way for their future leadership in
preaching, teaching, administration and people management. Some of
the principles to follow in raising leaders after us would be:
14.1 Raising Future Leaders
14.1.1 Empower the followers
When we give responsibility and position to any person, we must make

sure that they are given authority to operate and fulfilll their duties.
14.1.2 Foster healthy team spirit
After sharing the vision the leader should show the vision in his
lifestyle. Then naturally some people follow the vision. After this
vision, the followers should come to the situation where they all start
speaking, Our vision, our mission, our project and our organization.
The vision of the leader becomes their vision. The leader becomes one
among them. All of them gladly follow his leadership, not because of
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any reward, but because of their love and respect for him. In this kind
of leadership, there is no authoritarian rule or dictatorship.
14.1.3 Give powers away

Let go and let them do. Provide them autonomy and freedom. Believe
them and have confidence in them. Give some of your powers...
14.1.4 Do not expect them to be your photo copies
Let them do the assignment in their own way. Appreciate them when
they complete in their own style, though it may not be exactly as you
would plan or perform.
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14.2 Match Task and Talents
If we give the wrong work, even the smartest will become misfit/
unfit. It is like asking a preacher who never had any musical training
or talent to sing in a music concert. It is like asking a theological
graduate who had no knowledge of mathematics to be the accountant
of the association. In fact I have observed this mistake in some
of the churches in the North East India. Bible graduates were
asked to look after the finance of the church. Preachers without
any training or experience in administration were entrusted with
the administration of Christian churches and organizations. After
learning from the mistakes the churches are sending young people
for special courses in management, secretarial works, accounting and
administration.
1. Best preachers are not often office men, organizers or
administrators.
2. Some of the great writers are poor speakers.
Therefore, Find to what task each one will fit.
14.3 What I Look for in a Leader

14.3.1 Committed and focused
Only such people will be effective. They will have job satisfaction.
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14.3.2 Teachable spirit

They should be excited about learning contemporary developments.
They should be willing to learn from others.
14.3.3 Team player

They should not be dictators or authoritarian in leadership style.
14.3.4 Gifted to the task I look for
If they are called for the job by God and if they have the passion, they
can get training in the field and also attend seminars.
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14.3.5 Open to new ideas
They should be ready to read periodicals and also listen to lectures on

the matter of faster and effective performance.
14.3.6 Willing to do things differently (change)

They should be open to try new methods.
14.3.7 Risk-takers
They should be people who will boldly take the step of faith when they
are convinced in their hearts that it is the right direction to take and
the right thing to do.
14.3.8 Willing to have accountability

And vulnerability to a prayer partner.
14.3.9 Attached to a local church
Ready to submit to the church discipline.
14.3.10 Integrity and dependability

Faithful and sincere in all walks of life.
14.3.11 Organized
Knows how to manage time and prioritize the works.
14.3.12 Persistence and determination to complete the

task
GOD
NO DIVINE
CALLING
SELF-STYLED
LEADER
LEADERS
VISION
TRUE VISION
NO LEADERVISION
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BECOMES
DIVINE CALLING
ONLY
AMBITION
Godly leaders are safe and secure. They know they are in Gods will.
Self appointed leaders are insecure and easily intimidated/paranoid.
Godly leaders give power away. Ambitious leaders cling on to
power.
14.4 Cautions When Raising Leaders

14.4.1 The disciple becoming greater than the leader
Do not be envious when your disciple starts shining better than you.
Do not be jealous when your followers show better talents than you
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and perform better. King Saul was envious of young David when
he killed Goliath and received greater applause from the ladies. Saul
wanted to kill David and chased him for years. But look at Barnabas.
He was the man who introduced and encouraged Paul to come to the
forefront of leadership. Paul began showing more abilities as preacher
and writer. There was a switching from the order of leadership Barnabas
and Paul to Paul and Barnabas. But we do not see any jealousy or
envy in Barnabas. Moses was the only undisputed prophet of God.
He was never intimidated or become paranoid when younger ones did
prophesy. He knew he was safe and secure in the center of Gods will.
Only self-centered leaders feel threatened when others come up to their
level of leadership. They get scared of losing position and power. But
a good leader knows that he is safe in the center of Gods will and his
authority does not come from position but from the Lord.
14.4.2 The disciple does not rise to the expectation of the

leader
Do not get discouraged if your disciple does not come up to the level
of your expectation. Do not get disheartened when the young man
whom you trained for years does not become like you. Apostle Paul
spent years in pouring out his life in the training of young Timothy.
Humanly speaking, Timothy did not show the same type of leadership
qualities like Paul. Timothy was a shy person. He was an introvert.
His personality and temperament were quite different from those
of Pauls. However Paul did not show any sign of disappointment.
Rather Paul appreciated Timothys growth in a different way and
then entrusted him with the leadership in the prestigious church at
Ephesus.
14.4.3 The disciple plots for the fall of the leaders

Do not be shocked or surprised when one of your disciples whom you
loved, mentored and lifted up as a leader plots for your downfall. King
David loved his beloved son Absalom. But Absalom rebelled against
his father and chased him out of the palace and captured the throne
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for a season. But when Absalom was killed in the battlefield, David did
not rejoice. Rather David began to weep bitterly for his son Absalom.
In the church history we have seen numerous painful incidents where
the followers engineered the fall of the leader and then captured that
position. I know some leaders who became victims of Christian
Politics and Plots engineered by their most beloved disciples. But I
was amazed to see these leaders forgiving those disciples and praying in
tears for their safety and success. That is true leadership.
Keep on disciplining and raising leaders even though your disciples
may not be your photocopy, even though they may outshine you, even
though they may not rise to your expectation and even though they may plot
against you. Never quit.
14.5
Building Healthy Leaders (How Healthy
Leaders Are Raised)
14.5.1 Leaders build leaders
Impart your life to your followers. Pour out your life on them. You
know me, saw me. . .(2 Tim. 3:1014). Apostle Paul was bold enough
to claim that he was a good example in word and deed for others to follow
(1 Cor. 11:1) . Gurukul type of discipline is an ideal and healthy way of
grooming future leaders. In this type of training, the disciple lives with
the teacher 24 hours of the day for many years until the Guru(teacher)
feels that the Sishya(disciple) had matured in word and in action.
Then the guru declares that the training is completed and the disciple
can be released for ministry, following the footsteps of the master. In
fact this is the way Jesus trained his disciples for three years and six
months.
14.5.2 Engagement brings change

People remember 20 percent of what we say, 30 percent of what they
see and 80 percent of what they do. Look at the example of Jesus and
his disciples:
He taught themHe spoke to them.
He showed themCome and see.
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He did with themLet us do together.

He sent them to doGo and do.
This is the way carpenters and masons train their sons and raise them
to pursue their profession. This is the way business people train their
children to be business men. This is the way a Christian is expected to
go and make disciples or raise leaders for the future.
14.5.3 Challenging engagement
A good leader will observe and perceive the capacity of the disciple
(follower). Then he will assign him with a challenging job which will
be at the appropriate level to challenge his capacity.
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14.5.4 Leaders are built, a few at a time
It is impossible to raise hundreds of leaders with a crash course in few

days. We can encourage them in a few days of seminar on leadership.
But we cannot raise them as leaders (Matt. 12:1332). This truth is
seen in the way Jesus trained leaders:
Multitude received ministry from Him.
Seventy were given special attention.
Twelve were recruited as disciples.
Three were chosen for the inner circle (special friends).
14.5.5 Building leaders take time
Jesus spent three and one half years in training and raising the 12
disciples for the great task of evangelism and church planting. It took
them a long time to know the meaning of the kingdom of God. In the
initial days they thought that Jesus was going to establish an earthly
kingdom. They thought that Jesus would conquer the Roman Empire
and the Hebrews would be liberated and rule themselves. But by the
end of the training period, they understood that the kingdom of God
is spiritual and it is the entry of Christ in the hearts of men. After
realizing that, the disciples completely sold out their lives to spread this
good news and they envisioned conquering the whole world by the
good news of the cross.
14.5.6 Leaders must be built in context, not in contents

alone
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Not theory alone is class room. Learning and doing. Doing and
learningOn the job training. Most of the Bible colleges impart
class room lectures only. Graduates come out without any practical
knowledge of leadership, people management and administration.
It is necessary for missionary institutes to take the students to the
mission fields and make them see and then work together with
pioneer church planters and pastors. One of our weaknesses in
training others is that our lecturers in the institutions have learnt
theories and principles from books and they have not lived in the
mission fields and they have not faced the challenges of leadership
themselves.
14.5.7 Leaders are built through fire
Dross and junk are removed in the fire. Pure gold comes out. This
was true of many leaders that we know in the Bible. Moses had to
go through the fire for 40 years before becoming a leader. Joseph
went through the fire for thirteen long years before becoming Gods
leader in Egypt. David went through fire and through water before
getting the throne. This is true in secular history too: Mahatma
Gandhi, the father of the nation, endured much of suffering for
few decades before obtaining the freedom for India from the colonial
rule of Britain. Nelson Mandela spent years in jail and suffered
so much in his struggle for the liberation of South Africa. This is
also true in Christian missions. Missionaries like Hudson Taylor,
William Carey and Adoniram Judson endured much suffering
before they could see harvest of souls. All of them, I am sure, would
join the Psalmist David and sing, We went through fire and
through water: but you have brought us out into a wealthy place
(Ps. 66:12).
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14.6 Three Stages in Godly Leadership

SHARE VISION
Submit to Leadership
A ROLE MODEL
WHO KNOWS VALUES
SEEK ADVICE
COMMITMENT
MISSION STATEMENT
DETERMINATION
PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES
Give influence away

allow the gifted to lead
encourage people to surpass
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Empower Leadership
Listen to your leadership

seek achievements
seek right action
have toughness with tenderness
Establish Leadership
Some one to hold you

accountable.
Egoa deadly killer of missions,
organizations, churches.
EMPOWER PEOPLE
ENVISION FUTURE
Look for Grace in the candidates that you plan to raise as leaders.
Gift without grace will make people proud and arrogant. The
world looks for gift and talents for recruiting people. But God is
looking for men and women of grace which is fruit of the Spirit
(Gal. 5:22). It is unfortunate when churches elect/choose leaders who
are gifted and trained minus grace!
The disciples were slow to understand this principle. Jesus took
time and showed example to humble them and manifest grace in them:
1. They fought for power and authority (Mark 9:3337): Jesus
washed their feet to teach them the precious lesson of Leading
through serving, leading through loving.
2. They sought Honor and preference: James and John wanted
to be on the left and right of Jesus the King in the kingdom of
God (Luke 22:2627). Jesus advised them to seek least place
in gatherings!
14.7 The Concept of Christian Service

LEADING THROUGH SERVING and LEADING THROUGH
LOVING is the key of Jesus style, servant leadership.
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One of the best summations that I have found from the internet
was by Myron Rush on the tough questions on leadership:
Be willing to stand alone.
Be willing to go against public opinion.
Be willing to risk failure.
Become master of your emotions.
Strive to remain above reproach.
Make decisions others dont want to make.
You must say no at times, even when you would like to say
yes.
Be willing to sacrifice personal interests for the good of the
group.
Do not be content with the average; you must always strive
for the best.
People must be more important than their assignments.
Work harder than followers to keep your life in balance.
How true were these summations in the life and service of Apostle
Paul?
14.8 Christian Service Style
Christian service is like a libation, a pouring out to God. There is no

substitute in offering up for service, holding back nothing (Rom. 12:1).
If I be offered upon, says Paul (Phil. 2:17).
Offered up for the service of Christ.
Offered up for the service of others.
how deep was pauls service?
The thought of his Christian service is to glorify God.
The visual appearance of his Christian service is to bring
someone to the concept of faith in Christ, to bring someone
to the experience of salvation, to encourage someone to
grow in faith in Christ, to lead someone to the concept of
dependence upon God for Salvation and not on religions
or philosophies.
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The essence of his Christian service is leading someone to

faith in Christ and to training him to be his disciple and
leaders of the church.
christian service is not a bolt from the blue it has a plan, a
design and it takes your entire life to reach it.
how can one go about it
Take on the Christian service.
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by confidence upon
God (Future)
Paul says, Trust in the Lord (Phil. 2:1924).

Means by dependence upon
God (present)
because
these two release
the power of God
&
For doing the job (the service)
the purposes of God
how intensive should the christian service be? (Phil. 2:19)

Show interest in people (Remembering people)
Show interest in the well-being of people (Getting involved
with people)
Show interest in the care-giving of people (Caring enough
for people)
Show interest in the individuals (Recognizing the value of
individuals. Maintaining personal contact)
how did paul do it?

Paul remembered people clearly. His concern for the people
never diminished.
Paul was interested in the well-being (comfort) of others
(i) He knew the needs of others.

(ii) He knew what others were going through.
(iii) He got involved with people.
(iv) He looked at the feelings of others (Phil. 2:26)
Paul was interested in care-giving
(i) He cared enough for the work at Philippi.
(ii) He devolved his time, energy and ability to care enough.
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This was his investment in the people.

Today in Christian ministries the work of God is shown
growing in statistics and planning but not in real interest
in people. The leaders do not care enough for the workers.
The needs of the people are being missed in almost every
ministry. There is no care for the individuals. There is
lesser leader involvement. There is nothing of faith in
the ministries except the faith in his own abilities to raise
funds for doing what God didnt call him to do. In Board
meetings the members had listened to him, agreed and
resolutions were passed to send someone over to the needy
people group but nothing was done about it because there
was no one who cared enough to go.
Want to be a leader?
(Phil. 2:2225)
Like Timothy
Show your proof, your calibre
Show what youre made of

Show your mettle
Like Epaphroditus
Be a brother

Be a companion

Be a fellow-soldier

Be a messenger
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Then,
Have a commitment that connects your discipleship with
discipline.
Have a different attitude. Put your Soul in the ministry.
Have an outburst of eagerness to involve yourself in the
work, to invest your time, energy and abilities in the work.
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# In the ministry some people put their heart and soul into it. But a majority
bring in certain programs as if they are doing some favor to God. They are
not so enthusiastic as to push themselves out into the fields, rather sit in
their comfort zone. A state of apathy prevails in Christian missions today.
All seek their own, says Paul about the Roman Church which means
very little sacrifice (Phil. 2:21). This is a discouragement every leader has
to face:
You cant get people to share your vision.
You cant get people to see what you see.
You cant get people to do what you do.
You cant get people to go as you go.
There is trouble finding someone who cares enough to go, to do something

of a sacrifice. Paul says, I press towards the mark. Yes, the leader walks
on, none to follow!
Study Guide
1. What are the principles for raising leaders?
2. What do you understand by Match Task & Talents?
3. Mention any 5 qualities of a man for leadership.
4. Explain with the help of diagram the Right and Wrong vision.
5. What cautions do we have to take when raising leaders? Explain
each from biblical backgrounds.
6. Leaders build leaders. How was Paul an example to this claim?
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7. How did Christ use the method of engagement to train his disciples
for leadership?
8. Leaders are built few at a time. How did Christ apply this principle
to raise leaders?
9. Building leaders take timehow did Jesus show it in training his
disciples?
10. State the 3 stages in Godly leadership.
11. Mention any 5 concept of Christian service.

12. What is libation?
13. In Pauls Christian service:
a. The thought of his Christian service is...............................

b. The visual appearance of his Christian service is....................
c. The essence of his Christian service is....................
14. Paul says, Trust in the Lord. Bring its possible meaning to
Christian service.
15. Account for the intensity of Christian service
a.
b.
c.
d
16. How did Paul show this intensity in his Christian service?
a.
b.
c.
17. What kind of a leader you want to be?
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Like Timothy
a.
b.
c.
Like Epaphroditus
a.
b.
c.
d.
What you have to do.
1.
2.
3.
18. All seek their own, says Paul. What does he mean?
19. List the discouragements every Christian leader has to face?

20. What is the greatest trouble for a leader?
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SITUATIONal LEADERSHIP
Situational Leadership is a practical-easy-to-apply method in

motivating people of an organization who lack devotion and hard
work. In situation leadership, the emphasis is on smarter work and
not on harder work. The method teaches how to use different strokes
for different folks.
When a leader finds it hard to find people in his organization to
work as he works, he will have to do everything by himself. What he
needs is to learn to delegate.
If people are not ready, or not willing to be delegated, the leader
needs to train them because people are different.
15.1 Christian Organizations
Most Christian organizations are pyramidal organization
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PEOPLE
WORK
FOR ONE
MAN
PYRAMIDAL ORGANIZATION
Dire
LEADER
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RES
PONSIVE
SPONSIBLE
Does all the works

plans, organizes, evaluates
sends directives to people
The thinking is that everyone works for one person.

The leaders are responsible for planning, organizing and
evaluating everything.
People are supposed to be responsive to the directives from
the leaders.
The leaders do all the works.
Now turning the pyramid upside down, we get a powerful twist to who
is responsible and who is responsive.
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PYRAMID UPSIDE DOWN

PEOPLE
DO ALL THE WORKS
Direct
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Respo
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to
the Pe
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the lea
ives to
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RESPONSIBLE
ORGANIZES
EVALUATES
LEADER
RE
SPONSIVE
15.2
Applying Different Strokes for Different
People
How to treat people differently?
People watch your various leadership styles:
How you behave
How you try to influence your performance
Now these are useless to them unless appealed to their viewpoints:
Therefore, do not try to make decisions for others.
Instead, make participative leadership:
How?
assign tasks
Work very closely with people on these tasks,
How will a situational leader get involved in this?
Train people to plan
Train people to decide
Operate with people as colleagues
Train people to be contributing members
15.2.1 What is a situational-leader, then?
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He is either autocratic or democraticHe doesnt restrict

himself to either extremes.
He is supportive and participative.
He is responsible for inspection and quality control.
He is responsible for the technical side of the business.
He consults with people before implementing any personal
programs or policies.
He tells of his opinions to the people and asks for the
opinions of the people.
He changes his style depending on the person he is working
with in a particular situation.
15.2.2 How can a leader be a situational-leader?

There are three skills involved:
1. Learn how to diagnose the needs of the people you work
withdiagnosis.
2. Learn to use variety of leadership-stylesflexibility.
15.3 Partnering
Learn how to come to some agreements with people about the

leadership style they look for from you:
When a leader restricts himself to an autocratic (domineering,
shouting)
and
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When a leader restricts himself to a democratic (too soft and easy),

He is only half-a-leader.
When is a leader a whole-leader?
When he is flexible
When he is able to use the 4 different leadership styles.
The four basic leadership styles:

DIRECTING
COACHING
15.4 Leadership Styles

SUPPORTING
DELEGATING
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These four styles consist of different combinations of two basic

leadership behaviors, which a manager uses to influence someone else.
15.4.1 Directive style
Definition: Structure
Organize
Teach
Supervise
2ND BASIC LEADERSHIP

BEHAVIOR
SUPPORTIVE BEHAVIOR
Definition: Praise
Listen
Ask
Explain
Facilitate
Related to:
Democratic leadership: You
support your peoples efforts
Listen to their suggestions.
Facilitate their interactions
with others.
Build their confidence and
motivation.
You encourage and praise.
You rarely go about solving a
particular problem.
You rarely go about telling
them how to do a task.
You help them reach their own
solutions by sending in queries
to expand their thinking.
You encourage risk-taking.
You are not treating people
unfairly but you are being
consistent in using the same
leadership style in similar
situations
1ST BASIC LEADERSHIP

BEHAVIOR
DIRECTIVE BEHAVIOR
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Related to:
Autocratic leadership: One way
communications
You tell someone what, when,
where and how to do something
and you closely monitor.
You tell the person what the
goal is, how his job should look
like.
You lay out step-by-step plan
for accomplishing the task.
You solve the problem.
You make decisions and the
persons carry them out as per
your ideas.
High on directive behavior.
Low on directive behavior.
High supportive behavior.

Low supportive behavior.
15.4.2 Coaching style

Coaching combines:
direction
support
delegation
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Example:
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15.4.3 Where does the word situational comes into

play?
In some situations a participative-supportive style will
be a better approach.
In several situations an autocratic-directing style
would be appropriate: How?
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Therefore, (1)
#Suppose you are at a meeting. Suddenly you hear an explosion. You

would not ask everyone to form small groups to discuss so as to agree
on the best course of action. You would say, Theres the door, run
out.
DIRECTING STYLE IS APPROPRIATE WHEN DECISION HAS TO

BE MADE QUICKLY AND STAKES ARE HIGH.
# Suppose you are hiring a less-experienced person whom you think

has the potential to learn the job. You would not ask him what, when,
where, how to do things.
Therefore (2)
DIRECTING IS MOST APPROPRIATE FOR INEXPERIENCED

WORKER WHO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE SELF-DIRECTIVE.
15.5 Performance of People, Delegating

do people perform well:
People in organizations seem to be working just for money.
They do not care whether the organization accomplishes
good or not.
People in organizations lose their commitment only after
realizing that good performance doesnt make a difference.
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15.5.1 Good performance often goes unrecognized

When you do something good,
you have no recognition/
appreciation/leader
says
nothing.
When you do something

wrong the leaders talk all the
time, dumping the wrong on
everyone.
When inexperienced people are

managed in this way they lose their
commitment.
To regain commitment
ENCOURAGEMENT
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DIRECTION
SUPPORT
15.5.2 Disillusionment sets in:
When people begin to work they often find it harder to do a task than
they thought it was going to be.
# So they lose interest.
# There is a drop in the commitment because they think the
reward doesnt worth the effort
or They are not getting the direction they need.
or They are often talked down.
or They make slow progress.
or They make no progress at all.
They lose confidence in their ability to learn and do. Their initial
excitements wear off.
To remove disillusionment
Listen to their concerns
Provide perspective
Praiseprogress
Involve in decision - making
So, a directing leadership style is better with beginners whereas coaching

style works for disillusioned learners.
15.5.3 How do delegating fit in:

FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF-RELIANT
ACHIEVERS
Delegating is
appropriate
FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPETENT

& COMMITTED
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They need no direction.

They provide their own support.
They praise themselves over the things they had done right.
They know how well they are doing, therefore, they need no much
supervision or praise.
A leader who brings so much work home to do at night, because

he has no time to finish them during the day, need to delegate
more than doing himself more.
15.6 Key to Being a Situational Leader
diagnosing a situation before you act.

What needs to be done before I act. (This is what diagnosing is all
about)
Flexibility is important but it can get you into trouble with people.
A leader who is too flexible may use the wrong style with wrong people
at the wrong time.
15.6.1 Diagnose the persons past performance

With regards to performance ------------- 1. Competence
Two factors to look into ------------------- 2. Commitment
When a worker is not performing well when the leader is not supervising
it can be a problem of Competence, Commitment or both.
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15.6.2 How to find whether a person has the competence

to do the job?
Competence is a function of knowledge and skills which a person gain
from Education, Training and Experience.
ABILITY
1. Ability means potential
(natural, inborn)
2. Some people have inborn
potential to learn a skill
easily.
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COMPETENCE is different
from
1. Competence is not
something a person is born
with.
2. Competence is developed
with appropriate direction
and support.
3. Competence is learned and
earned
15.6.3 How to find whether a person is committed or not

Commitment is a combination of
CONFIDENCE and MOTIVATION
A measure of a persons selfassuredness, an inner strength

of being able to do task well
without much supervision.

A persons interest in doing

a task well. A persons
enthusiasm for doing a task
15.6.4 Development level
At times a person who has both the competence and confidence loses
motivation, lacks interest, just gets bored because his efforts are not being
recognized. We need to imagine various combinations of competence
and commitment people can havewe may call it development
level.

A continuum of four development levels.
HIGH
High
competence
High
commitment
Moderate high
competence
Low
High comcompetence Low mitment
commitment
MODERATE
Low competence
Variable commitment
LEVELS
D4
LOW
D3
D2
D1
Developed -------------------------------------------------------------------Developing
Competence
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Commitment
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D1, D2, D3, D4

=
People who are in different levels of
developments and how their Competence and Commitments stand in
each level. They need to be treated differently.
People who are at levels D3 and D4:
Can work independently, without supervision
Can demonstrate the necessary skills and knowledge to
perform at high level.
in the continuum: D3
The difference between D3 and D4 is commitment. It is a problem of

confidence
D3 needs Support, Encouragement and Praise.
If it is a problem of motivation
D3 needs Listening, Problem-solving.

in the continuum: D4
D4 is confident
D4 is self-motivated
D4 needs fewer praising
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D4 does things right

D4 requires little supervision
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Note: Good performers are hard to find. In fact the leaders have to
train people to be good performers.
Study Guide
1. What do you understand by situationalleadership? And what does
it teach?
2. Most Christian organizations are pyramid organizations, explain.
3. What effects does it bring if the pyramid is turned upside down?
4. People are different. Therefore, how to treat people differently?

5. How will a situationalleader get involved in this?
6. What is a situationalleader? Give five points.
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7. How can a leader be a situationalleader?
8. The three skills involved for a leader to be a situationalleader are:

a. ............
b. ............
c. ............
9. When a leader restricts himself to a domineering, shouting leader,
he is .......... When a leader restricts himself to a soft and easy
leader, he is ............... A leader is a whole leader when he is ............
and when he uses ............... such as
a. ............
b. ............
c. ............
10. Directive behavior involves:
a. ............ b ..............
c. ............
d. ............ e. .............
11. Supportive behavior involves:
a. ............ b. ..............
c. ............
d. ............ e. ..............
12. Explain Autocratic leadership
13. Explain Democratic leadership
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14. In autocratic leadership ................... is high. In democratic

leadership ................. is high.
15. Coaching style involves
a. ............ b. ............
c. ............
16. Direction style has two way communications:
18. In supportive style
a. ............ b. ............
17. Delegating style is ......................style.
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a. You ............
b. You ............ c. You ............
19. Explain three situations in which autocratic directing style would
be appropriate.
20. Why does good performance doesnt make a difference among the
people in an organization?
21. How does disillusionment sets in an organization?
22. How does a drop in the commitment comes in?
23. What should a leader do to regain commitment?

24. State the four steps to remove disillusionment:
a. ............ b. ............
c. ............ d. ............
25. To whom is delegating appropriate and why?
a.
b.
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
26. The key to being a situationalleader is .......................................
means ......................
27. Flexibility brings trouble to a leader because he may .....................

28. Factors of diagnosing a persons past performance are
a. .............. b. ...................
29. The problem of competence, commitment or both happens when
.....................................
30. Competence is a function of a. ..................... b. ..........................
Gained from
a. ............ b. ............ c. ............
31. Competence means a. ........... b.. ........... c.. ...........
Ability means
a. ............ b. ............ c. ............
32. Commitment is a combination of a.. ........... b. ............
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Confidence means ...................................

Motivation means ...................................
33. Draw a continuum of development level and explain various
combinations of competence and commitment.
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ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP
An extraordinary leader, Paul, who had been specially gifted, called

or put into the task of breaking new grounds, courageously set
out with a vision, utilized creative skills, initiated expansion of
ministries, a risk taken to help people, created opportunities for
himself to develop his own entrepreneurial leadership skills and
taught others how to unlock the entrepreneurial leadership in
them.
Paul committed his entire life to his mission.
Took every opening to share his vision.
Invested his vision in his followers.
His was a flexible organization established and preserved
through persecution and hostility. But these sent ones
turned the world upside down.
The secret that enabled Paul so effectively helped to launch his

movement was his methods of laying new foundations, mostly
transferable (Caliguire, Leadership Secrets of St. Paul, 2008).
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16.1 Paul, His Calling (1 Cor. 1:1; Acts 9:15)
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Paul was called to be an Apostle. This was what God intend him to be
and he knew it. He tapped into a dynamic direction and confidence
from the one who called him. His life took a new purpose. He was
charged with a sense of rightness. The call freed him to fully become
what God created him to be, fully alive and energized in all he did.
His callnot that he intended to do something with it but what
it intended to do with him.
Paul was compelled.
He couldnt refuse.
It caused him to be true to what he was.
Leaders need to know your purpose:
Your dream clear as crystal
Persevere, follow the call
Dont feel stuck-up.
Dont shrink back.
As an entrepreneur, discover your deepest passion. Engage your calling.

Unleash the greatest surge of energy to fully express your calling to
manage your career, whatever could be the cost, it does have a reflection
of yours.
For Paul this meant reaching the Gentiles with the message of
the Gospel, establishing churches, instructing them and finding and
training new leaders.
16.2 Paul, Entrepreneurial Venture
They placed their hands on them and sent them off (Acts 13:3).
Your entrepreneurial leadership takes you to some unknown
territories to establish something new:
Laying new foundations.
Facing hostile situations.
Introducing changes.
Joining in a jumbled project.
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Serving with lifeless organization.

Where risk is involved.
Where perseverance is needed.
Where a high price to pay.
In that case many will not go with you, youll be alone.
16.2.1. In this kind of leadership:
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You need a base, a home, a church.

You need a support group, a mission
a) They know you.
b) They love you.
c) They care that you succeed
d) They care that you are healthy and whole physically,
spiritually and emotionally.
e) They care to listen.
f ) They tell you the truth.
g) They say hard things.
h) They share ideas, opportunities and possibilities.
i) They provide a safe place.
j) They share the good and the bad, the confusions, the
disappointment and the down turns.
k) They are your friends, your mirror.
Paul had a group of people, the church of Antioch, with him from the
start. They stood behind him. They laid their hands on him (a show of
solidarity). Paul returned to his base. The return from an entrepreneurial
venture. It was a great homecoming for Paul and his friends
(Acts 14:2728). They gave the church an update of their venture.
They, perhaps, shared the highs and lows, the success and setbacks.
16.2.2 Enterpreneurial leader

If you are called to be an entrepreneurial leader develop a home base
comprising those whom you trust and those who know you. Share your
dream, your vision, your plan and ask them to provide accountability.
Invite them to help you keep your priorities straight. Ask them to

investigate into your spiritual care, of your family and your physical
fitness. Such a group must send you.
An entrepreneurial venture, dont just do it. Dont do something
just for the sake of doing. Be patient, share your vision and the dream
and wait until the Lord opens the door through those around you,
affirm you, send you, stand with you and behind you. With that, GO.
16.3 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Brave Heart
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The willingness to begin makes the difference. At once he began to

preach in the Synagogue (Acts 9:20).
Paul was a starter.
He turned his great ideas into reality. He was a risk-taker, was
bold. There are plenty of people with great ideas but timid to begin.
The Bible calls for action: Whatever your hands find to do do it with
all your might (Eccl. 9:10). Dont just sit there, get up and go for it.
If you want to walk on water, youll have to get out of the boat
(John Ortberg). All entrepreneurial leaders can relate themselves to this
statement. Peter asked, Lord. . .tell me to come to you on the water.
Jesus answered, Come (Matt. 14:28,29). Step out of the boat.
16.3.1 Why many leaders do not have the courage to

start?

Fear of failure
Fear of taking risk
Fear of losing money
Fear of impossibilities
Fear of being looked as foolish
Fear of missing other opportunities
16.3.2 Paul was a bold starter

He seized the day and its opportunities.
Paul was the one person to speak up.
After receiving the Macedonian Call in a vision (Acts 16:10),
Paul and his friend left at once.
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Paul was fast to act when opportunities came his way.

What was the result: The Word of the Lord spread through
the whole region and Paul established churches in Macedonia.
Leaders :
have failed to act in the past
have hesitated
havent always moved forward
were timid
were not ready
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The problem is you yourself. Today may be your day, your time, and
your opportunity. Choose to act, refuse to shrink or quit.
16.4 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Motivator

Paul instilled workers. Not like some company leaders:
Who do not accept workers
Who do not uphold the values of people
Who do not treat the employees/suppliers with dignity
16.4.1 Paul realized the importance of helping people

see purpose in their work
Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of
the Lord Jesus (Col. 3:17).
Paul helped the workers to see a bigger purpose. He made the
work meaningful. It mattered to God even if the work was lowly.
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for
the Lord, not for men (Col. 3:23).
16.4.2 When people see their work as a part of the bigger

picture, they are motivated to contribute more into it.
They see value in what they do
Their work become a part of their self-expression
Their work become sacred to them not merely a secular
work

They are excited about their work, what they make, what
they serve, what they sell.
Accountable
Entrepreneurial
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16.5
Paul, an
Leader
It meant more to Paul to work with a group of people on a mission

where every worker can see his or her role in spreading the gospel
together. People are the most precious resource in a mission. Even the
most menial, insignificant or behind-the-screen tasks have value in
achieving a mission.
Today industries and organizations are harnessing the power of
purpose of their workers.
Paul couldve been an independent missionary unbranded by any

missionary organization or church. It is a nice feeling to be your own
boss:
You have flexible hours
You have freedom to work out your own ideas
You have power to do things your way
You are the monarch of all you see
Although Paul was sent by the Antiochan church, it did not have the
ability or facility to keep track of Pauls movements from one remote
place to another. He could have been on his own. But Paul chooses to
be accountable.
16.5.1 What is there in being accountable?

We realize we are not alone

We realize that others care about us
We realize that others are interested in what we are doing
They rejoice when things go well
They console when things go tough
They point to the areas where attention is needed
Paul returns to Antioch (Acts 14:27) from the outposts.
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Likely to give reports of his work

Likely to give an account of the struggles they went through
Likely to speak about the missionopportunities
Paul stayed back in Antioch for a long time (Acts 14:28)

Could be he longed for safety and support of the church
which believed in him
Could be they wanted to share success, failure, struggles of
the ministry
16.5.2 Accountability is always with us:

A coach in your sports field
A teacher in your school
A test, an exam
A manager, a director in your workplace
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These people make you accountable and keep you focused.

If you, a leader desire your mission to go forward and achieve
the goals you need, find someone/ some group and permit him/them
to hold you accountable. They might want to ask your goals, your
strategies, and your commitment, the status of the workon-going
or stagnant. They can help you avoid blunders.
Paul and his companion Barnabas found the need for accountability.
16.6 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Leader in Sharing

and Communicating the Vision (Col. 1:7)

The Colossians learned the gospel from Epaphras.

Epaphras was an ordinary man.
And Epaphras learned the gospel from the apostles.
The Colossians in turn had to pass on what they have
learned from Epaphras.
Paul caught the vision of Christ. He knew that the church has to
multiply as a spiritual community, he needs to share this vision with
others. He compared the church with a tree growing all over the world
and bearing fruit (Col.1:6).
16.6.1 Function of an entrepreneurial leader

The main function of an entrepreneurial leader is communicating and
sharing the vision. Like the passing of a baton in a relay race, vision
passes from person to person energizing, motivating people to do
things they dared not do before.
Passing the vision creates a network of vision.
16.6.2 What is vision then?
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In the words of Burt Nanus,

A vision is a mental model of a future state of process, a
group or an organization.
It deals with a world that exists only in the imagination,
a world built upon plausible speculations, fabricated from
what we hope are reasonable assumptions about the future.
A visionary portrays a fictitious world that can be observed
or verified in advance.
It is a world whose very existence requires an act of faith.
This doesnt come naturally to an entrepreneurial leader but only by

sharing the vision.
Leaders, if your vision is clear in your mind, then, work it out
recognizably distinct that others may get it.
Put yourself through some exercises of imagining, having dreams
and assume these dreams turn into reality. Create word pictures, a
resemblance of relations to share the vision.
1. Paul envisioned the church multiplying itself many times over
as the gospel bearing fruit and growing all over the world,
(Col. 1.28) and he shared this vision through admonishing
and through teaching everyone.
2. He encouraged everyone that their experience today would
someday spread to the entire world.
Today the church bears witness to this vision.
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16.7 Paul, an Entrepreneurial Leader with a

Personal Mission Statement
Apostle Paul clearly defined his calling, his mission at the beginning of
each of his letters to the churches and individuals.
He presented what he was called to do (Rom. 1:5).
He had threefold mission statements:
Rom. 1:17
Rom. 1:15
Rom. 1:16
Ready to do his will
Ready to stand the test
Not ashamed to own the man

who was hanged to the cross
Commissioned by God
(Gal. 1:15; Acts 22:21)
Ready to suffer
Neither ashamed of the gospel

nor bring a shame to it.
Set apart for service
Ready & mentally prepared
Not ashamed to suffer as a

Christian. (1 Pet. 4:16)
An apostle by Gods call
Ready to run the risk
Partake the afflictions of

the gospel (2 Tim. 1:8)
SET APART FOR THE
READY TO PREACH THE
NOT ASHAMED OF THE
Gospel
Gospel
Gospel
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PROCLAIMS THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
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THE POWER OF GOD

UNTO SALVATION
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Each leader must have a clear mission statement. When a leaders

mission statement is blur and misty, it will be cloudy and foggy for the
people. There is a need for clarity about what you are placed here to do
and what your specific area of responsibility is. There must be clarity of
what you are doing and not doing. Those who are associated with you
need to know regarding your mission:

Your aims and objectives

Your planning for achieving the objectives
Your target people
Your purpose for doing it
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Do not make things fuzzy for others. Start asking:

What am I pursuing?
What am I communicating?
What am I serving, building, helping, establishing,
inventing, innovating, creating, and giving?
What am I best in doing?
What is my target?
If people are
Leaders
Men
Professionals
Businessmen
Children
Students
Workers
Mothers/fathers, etc.
And if projects are

Welfare
Development
Education
Medical
Housing
Health care, etc.
The outcome shall be

Changed lives
Higher standard of living
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Churches planted
Sunday schools improved, etc.
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Your mission statement is the very breath of your endeavour. Make it

something meaningful so that others may willingly take a part in it.
Study Guide
1. List the special gifts given to Paul
2. What was the secret that helped Paul to launch new movements
3. Paul, called to be an apostle. Explain the nature of Pauls call to
the ministry.
4. As an entrepreneur leader what must be your attitude to your call?

5. List Pauls entrepreneurial venture.
6. Why does a leader need a base, a support group, a mission?
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7. How did such a base work in Pauls ministry?

8. What should a home base do for a leader
9. Dont just do it. Elaborate.
10. Paul was a starter. How did Paul do it? Acts 9:20; Eccl. 9:10;
Matt. 14:28,29.
11. Why are todays Christian leaders afraid to start? Give reasons.
12. Account for the statement: Paul was a brave starter.
13. Why do todays Christian leaders fail to act?
14. How was Paul an entrepreneurial motivator?
15. Why do we say that when people see their work as a part of the
movement they are motivated to contribute more?
16. People are the most precious resource in a mission. Give your
opinion on this statement.
17. What feelings do you get when youre a leader and boss of your
own, unattached to any mission?
18. What is there to be accountable? How did Paul do it in his ministry?
19. Why do leaders need to be accountable?
20. What is the main function of an entrepreneurial leader?
21. How was Paul a communicating leader?
22. What is vision? And what does it deal with?
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23. What does a visionary leader do?

24. What should a visionary leader do?
25. State the threefold mission statement of Paul.
26. What happens when a leaders vision is blurred?
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27. There must be clarity in what you are doing and not doing.
Elaborate.
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Chapter 17
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SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP
Jesus asked questions. This was one of his leadership successes. He

interrogated his world in order to listen to the opinions and the needs
of others.
Children, have you any meat? (John 21:5). Their answer was
his opportunity to enter into their lives. He did not take anything for
granted. He pursued information.
With questions he made a link to their future. The questions were
a bridge for their relationship. Jesus listened. He listened to know their
needs and desires.
Our Christian leaders today need to learn the effective way of
asking the right questions to determine the real needs of the people.
17.1 Jesus Knew His Assignment
He went about doing good (Acts 10:38).

Jesus realized his assignment on earth was to solve problems of
sin, sickness and Satan. He identified their problems and brought
immediate solutions. Every person and everything that God creates
is a solution for another. From birth a man is assigned to a person
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or people. A wife is assigned to her husband, a teacher is assigned to
his student, a parent is assigned to his child. As a leader your life is a
solution to someone in trouble. Your assignment is alwayssolve-aproblem.
17.2 Jesus Knew His Product
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Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst (John 4:13,14).
I am come that they might have life . . . more abundantly
(John 10:10).
Jesus knew what he was offering. He has productknowledge.
He was fully aware of his business. Jesus saw the damaged products and
knew that he was the only one to repair them. My sheep . . . I know
them (John 10:27). If you are a leader
Take time to know your product.
Believe in your product.
Be thoroughly informed of your product.
Have confidence in what you are saying and doing.
Take time to be alone with God.
Renew your understanding of his purpose.
His plan, his product (Hosea 4:6).
17.3 Jesus Was Transparent
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper (Rom. 12:17).

. . .provide things honestly in the sight of all men (Prov. 28:13).
There was no cover-up with Jesus. People wanted the truth. He
gave them the truth. He spoke of heaven (John 14:2), of afflictions
(Matt. 24:9), of loneliness (Matt. 8:20), plainly preparing them to live
in any possible situation. Paul did not misrepresent his product either
(2 Cor. 11: 24,25). An honest representation worth a hundred sales.
Leaders, your integrity will be remembered longer than your product.
Be honest.
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17.4 Jesus Knew the People
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He went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing

everywhere (Luke 9:6).
Jesus went to the marketplace. He went to the synagogue. He
went to the homes of the people. He went to the seashore where people
worked. Jesus was reachable. He pursued after people. He went where
people were. He went where people were hurtingto the lame, to the
blind, to the poor, to the wealthy, to the ignorant, to the hungry and
to the thirsty. He was always connected to the people.
Leaders!
Go to the people.
Success involves people
Successful people are accessible
Successful people are reachers not rejectors
Your dream is to get connected to people
Go to them
Make yourself available
Let them know that you have something that they need
Apply the law of relationship
Start with someone.
17.5 Jesus Had Goals and Plans
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first
and counteth the cost (Luke 14:2831).
Write the vision and make it plain upon table (Hab. 2:2).
Planning is the starting point of our goals. God honored men who
planned. Noah planned the building of the Ark. Solomon planned
the building of the Temple. Moses took time to plan the Tabernacle.
The birth, crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus was Gods plan of
salvation before the foundation of the earth (Rev. 13:8).
The Bible is the plan of God for us, the world and eternity.
Leaders!

The secret of your future abides in your daily routine
(Prov. 6:68).
Delegate a specific assignment to each hour.
Make a list of things to do each day and focus your total
attention on each task in a time-bound manner.
jesus took time to plan
17.6 Jesus Had Passion for Mission
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For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost
(Luke 19:10).
(Read Acts 1:38) Jesus had passion for his mission. He was
obsessed with a goal in life. Obsession is when something consumes
your thoughts and time. Jesus was obsessed with the salvation of
mankind. This obsession took him to the cross.
Leaders!
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and
not unto men (Col. 3:23).
Find something which is worthy of building your entire
life, and that could consume you.
17.7 Jesus Motivated People
Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me, to give every man
according as his work shall be (Rev. 22:13).
Jesus motivated people by
a) Pain motivation
He told the Pharisees how a rich man went to hell and was
tormented in the flame (Luke 16:24).
b) Incentive motivation
I go to prepare a place for you (John 14, a mansion, a
reward).
Everyone has an appetite for increase. No one prefers to decrease.

Everyone wants to multiply.
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Leaders need to carefully examine the benefits you offer through

your product. People do not buy for their face value but for what
benefit it brings to them. Therefore take time to show the people what
reward is in it for them.
17.8 Jesus Delegated
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Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and
said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God, and
serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men
of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whowe may
appoint over this business. . .(Acts 6:14).
It is more productive to let ten men to do the work than the leader
alone does it. Delegation means giving others necessary instructions
and motivation to complete a particular task (Murdock).
How did Jesus delegate?
He instructed his disciples to make the people sit in rows.
He gave the loaves and fish to the disciples for distribution
(Matt. 14:19).
Matthew 21:2He sent his disciples to get a donkey.
John 9:6,7He told the blind man to wash his eyes in Siloam to
appropriate his healing.
Mark 14:1215He sent his disciples into the city to arrange for
a special meal.
Leaders!
Know your limitations
Take time to motivate and train those you work with
It takes patience, it takes time
But it has long-term benefit
When you network with others:
a. Checklist their exact responsibilities
b. Instruct them of your expectations from them
c. Give them the information and authority necessary to

complete the task
d. Set a time-schedule to finish the task
e. Clearly show them how they will be rewarded
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Study Guide
1. What was one of the leadership successes of Jesus?
2. Children, have you any meat (John 21:5)?. Their answer to this
question was his opportunity to enter into their lives. Elaborate the
significance of this statement.
3. How did Jesus use question in leadership?
4. As a leader your life is a solution to someone in trouble: Explain

this with some examples.
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5. Jesus said, I know them. . . (John 10:27). What has this saying
got to do with a leader?
6. Account for the statements:
a. There was no cover-up with Jesus.

b. Paul did not misrepresent.
7. Jesus was reachable. What is the significance of this statement to a
leader?
8. Apply the law of relationships. How will a leader do this?
9. Write the vision and make it plain upon tables (Hab. 2:2). What
meaning does this verse bring to a leader?
10. Where does the secret of a leader abide and how shall he fulfilll it?
11. Define the words Passion, Obsession. How does these words
apply to a Christian leader?
12. What is motivation? How did Jesus motivate people?
13. What is delegation? How did Jesus delegate?
14. How does a leader motivate and train his associates?
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Chapter 18
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YOUTH LEADERSHIP TODAY
Youth leadership is to the youth, about the youth and for the youth
of the church who are alienated, rebellious and uncommitted to the
teachings of the disciplines of Christian life and practice because of a
deep spiritual vacuum within them which the church fails to fill. They
are searching for individual identity. They are searching for a challenge
and a faith. Most people in the church do not understand their
problems. The answer the youth receive for their enquiries, to this day,
is neither intelligible nor acceptable. They are being exploited by the
radical intellectuals, false teachers, etc. The church is being infiltrated
by hypocrisy, hate, casteism, favoritism and man-pleasing . It seems
churches and Christian families are unable to correct these errors.
The parents are too busy to notice the growth of their wards.
In pursuit of a better standard of living, education, status, jobs for
their children they turn to materialism. They choose wrong means to
acquire wealth and welfare. The spiritual values are covered under the
construction of an affluent way of life. No one tries to understand the
frustrated and discontented youth.
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18.1 Christian Youth and Social Problems

There are other elements, in the society, which cause the mind of the
Christian youth to baffle with questions which stabs the conscience of
any sensible Indian youth willing to take a look at his societys flaring
contrast:
18.1.1 The problem of poverty:
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Young people see clearly the tragic contrast of the rich and poor, the
haves and the have-nots. The country is full of such inequalities. The
young do not understand why such things are permitted to continue in
the society. Millions are dying every day from starvation and for want
of nutritional needs.
In cities, slums are rising where filth, rags shacks and hunger
combines the lives of the unprivileged humanity. Human misery,
hunger and living in pollution generate growing panic and unrest.
Knowing well that the benefits of democracy, freedom, development
benefit the privileged few, the church and its youth are reluctant to
help find a solution.
18.1.2 Problem of pollution:
Our natural resourcesatmosphere, vegetations, waters are being

fastly reduced that life on the planet may not survive this century
predicts some scientists. Development of industries, technologies,
motor vehicles help the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere which
causes unpredictable climate changes.
The forest coverage of the globe is vanishing rapidly in spite of the
de-forestation programs undertaken by the various governments. Even
the water bodies of the earth are being polluted by dumping waste
products.
Mankind will be choked to death. God created man to water/
look after the earth he created. Instead, man destroys it. Our youth live
unconcerned of their polluted atmosphere.
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18.1.3 The problem of nuclear power:

We live in nuclear age. No young person needs to be convinced
that nuclear energy is an everpresent reality. Young people clearly
understand that with the possession of nuclear bombs, the human race
is on the brink of total annihilation. There is not a ray of hope that a
war and general annihilation can be averted.
18.2 Christian Youth and the Problem of Change
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There is a change going on throughout the world todaypolitical,

social, moral, economic, scientific, violence, and so on. The change is
so fast that every young person is caught up in some sort of change
deeply personal and hidden or active and open.
New terminologies are emerging to explain new concepts. Media,
television, computer science, industries, technologies, tourism etc daily
will our homes with new catchy words and advertisements. Religions
and theologies are also under the influence of this change. This is a
clear indication that our youths are heading into a storm of changes
and have to go through a period of transformation. They have to look
to the future with all its threats and opportunities.
In the years ahead the church will be functioning with faster system,
faster communications, faster conveyance. It is speed that matters. If
the church is looking for clarity it must be doing at a fast and a steady
space. These changes have no particular form or design to life.
18.2.1 Some of these changes are noted:
The skills which are valuable now will be valueless in the

next season.
The computer controls every sphere of mans life today.
Different skills are to be mastered to handle the fastchanging computer technologies. They run after cerebral
skills, rather than manual skills.
Industries try to manage and control the intelligence of the
working class.
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The business and the manufacturing sectors are interested

more in knowledge and information than in their products
and distribution. They are crazy after the know-how, the
knowledge market.
Knowledge doesnt mean you are an intellectual. It means
cleverness. If you are clever you will win. Cleverness is
wealth. It cannot be inherited but can be cultivated by
information, intelligence and ideas.
A command given to the computer will bring all that you
want to have. The world is at your finger-tips. Everyday the
world will bring new surprises and unforeseen changes.
18.2.2 The church, the youth, the change
The church needs to make an upsidedown thinking before it is

forced to embrace this chaos. The church will be left behind wondering
about the future. The church is moving into a turbulent time of
confusion. Predictions will be unsafe. We think we can predict the
future by looking at the past, but that doesnt work. Because the future
will be so new that the past cannot match with it.
The youth of the church will have to hold many opposing ideas
in their mind. This means they have to live through unreconciled
contradictions without any immediate answers. The Bible is full of
such stories of paradoxes, complexities, dilemmas, apparent confusions,
superficial collisions and seeming contradictions. There are stories of
lives shattered and blessed. The stories of Abraham, Jacob, David,
Daniel, etc. All they did was to live obediently to him. When God works
in us we will be wonderfully prepared and better equipped for the world
ahead.
18.3 The Generation Gap

There always has been a gap between the old and the young.
There always will be! It was meant to be that way, because
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It was meant to teach the young respect for the old

age.
It was meant to guide and support the young from
the experience and wisdom of the old age.
When this arrangement is pulled out of proportion

or misused we will have an abnormal situation.
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This is whats happening today. No country is free from the

rebellion of the youth against older generation. In some parts of the
world it is even greater.
The youngsters reach out for their rights
Smallest issues trigger into arguments and fights
To force their distinctiveness deliberately:
a. The girls rubbed their hair straight
b. Painted their lips white
c. Circled their eyes black
d. The boys with their shoulderlength hair
e. Dirtied the tidy block made by their parents
f. Sharply looked at parents with distrust
What irks these youngsters most is their parents continued refusal

to bend to the movement of change. At times they themselves have
brought up the changes.
They consider they are special
They consider they are a unique race
They want elders out of their way
When these become more concentrated and more intense they are led
to campus violence and murder.
Children vanish from home
They like streets for more independence
18.3.1 What are the causes of this generation gap?
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The natural rebellion of human heart

Regular erosion and dehumanization of personality by a
computer age.
Lack of purpose and meaning
Tragic failure of our educational system in which the
children are highly qualified than their parents. This angers
the parents.
The failure of the parents to live what they preach
Social problems that have no foreseeable solution
Failure of the government to understand that the root of
the problem is not materialistic or social but moral and
spiritual
The church, instead of proclaiming the biblical message,
turned to social and political activism.
In the eyes of the youth the church leaders and pastors are
phoneys.
They want to see discipleship in the lives of their parents
and want the pastors tell it from the pulpit.
18.3.2 Youth leaders!
Practice what you preach

Strive more to bring your conduct meet the code of your
beliefs
Maintain Christian character with undeviating diligence
and consistency
It is a must for commanding respect, for the parents as well
as the leader
Place the youngsters, under your care, in the hands of God
by prayers, to be developed by him.
18.4 The Profile of a Youth Leader

The church youth face pressures of change, and the confusion of the
new culture. They need rich lessons to understand the leadership works
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among the church youth, who are confused with the doctrinal clashes,
worship patterns, sacraments, church politics, local politics, insanity,
preaching, prayer, work, finance, employment, etc. and the problems
get denser as the years go by. A youth leader should know how to
respond to the change, manage it, and lead the group through. This is
a huge multifaceted task of a church youth leader.
Youth leadership is never an organizational control. In fact he is a
servant of the others in the group.
A youth leader must be:
A good administrator
An exceptional visionary
An integral part of the team
Dependent upon the power of God
A man of prayer
Leading a life of substance, solidity and skill.
Refer to the historical events of changes faced by Daniel, Nehemiah

and Jeremiah and how they used their wits and cleverness to manage
the problem of change affecting their lives.
How will a youth leader lead his group through changes happening
from within the church and outside?
18.4.1 Observe, respond and manage
The changing conditions:

a. Observe the changes, and respond
b. Observe, respond and manage your relationship with the
group affected by the changes.
c. Observe, respond and manage your personal conditions,
intentions and attitudes because of the changes.
In order to achieve the ability to lead the youth efficiently the leader
needs to meet the demands of the changes, its values and its impacts
on the future. If the realities of the changes taking place in the church
and in its immediate society are not clearly observed, a leader cannot
manage changes which gradually influence the culture because the

changing society values intelligence, ability, skill, development, power,
prestige, wit and wisdom.
Observe and understand accurately the views of the people with
whom we live and seek to affect someones beliefs and practices. If the
youth leader makes a mistake in this, he will be only wasting his time
and energy by going after the things of lesser values.
18.4.1.1 Relationship of the youth leader with the group
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The youth of the church must be remarkable individuals who would

courageously stand together with a resolve to negotiate and go through
the challenging situation of change. They know well the consequences
of failure. They need each others support in order to tackle the
process of the change. The leader should give his full attention to the
determination of the group. He would never make an overestimation or
under-estimation of the typical quality of their consensus to strengthen
each other in the event of facing changes.
18.4.1.2 The Inner-life of a youth leader
An enthusiastic and unceasing prayer life and complete dependence

upon God are the two abilities a youth leader should have to understand
the truth about the individuals in the group and the changing situations
they face.
His vision will be his success
His fantasy will be his failure
18.4.2 Make choices and take decisions to show the way

in which the youth will be able to live a life in a fastchanging situation
When a youth merges into some changing experiences he forms a
refined understanding, a culture, through his choices from the changes
he faces. When a leader groups the youth into an organization he
creates cultures which in turn will manage their affairs. The youth leader
should explain to the group the reason why they are looking for ways to
live appropriately to the challenges of changes. The group would gather
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around the initiatives of the leader which shapes the understanding

of the youths experiencing unpleasant changes and present them a
structure through which they could lead their lives.
18.4.3 Public and spiritual choices of a youth leader
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A youth leader, under the pressure from changes, has to make choices
and decisions. There could be a mixture of resolutions and compromises
in these choices and decisions. Like Daniel, a youth leader can resolve
not to defile himself and at the same time compromise to undergo a
pagannaming, a pagan education and initiate a negotiation with the
officials of the king. These were both a political and spiritual decision
appropriate to the situation. Spiritual leaders need not to distant
themselves from the world for going Godly. If a youth leader desires to
lead well he should integrate the political and spiritual realities.
Bringing changes into the youth group of the church always has a
political aspect. This is not in any way unsuitable.
A youth leader must be clear of what he is doing and how he is
doing it. It is his job to see the group through those series of actions.
Help the group to build their values and form their outlook of their
world which is undergoing change. This is done not by implementing
managerial technologies but by the solid judgment of the heart.
Youth leader! If you desire to be effective, like David, Daniel
and Paul, make compromising choices, manipulate the programs and
withhold informations. It is not that you are behaving politically but
handling your political behavior wise and appropriate, to the need
of the hour. Christ said, Be as wise as serpents but as harmless as
doves.
18.5 Powers of a Youth LeaderRecognize Your

Official Power and Expertise
There are two greatnesses expected from a youth leader. The
combination of these two greatnesses help the youth leader excel in all
spheres of his life and service:

PRIMARY
SECONDARY
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TALENT
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SKILL
Serving
SERVE
PIONEERING
Character:
The way in which a youth leader handles suffering.

The way in which he loves and serves.
Talent/skill:
The way in which he observes and understands the
world. The way in which he expresses his perception
with skill. The way in which he pioneers new areas.
Youth leader: If you possess this combination of greatnesses you
are called to work in the service of the youth of the
church who live in a changing culture with excellence
and brilliance.
Your job is to demonstrate the techniques you adopt to manage the
change. You need to have a substance and a deep character in order to
serve a youth group which offers nothing in return and yet do all things
with skill, wisdom and godliness.
18.6 The Attitude of a Youth Leader

The greatest issue faced by the Christian youth today is the question of
what is right and what is wrong. There is no compass to measure them.
It effects acutely in the area of youth leadership.
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True leadership is the practice of righteousness*. A world without

right and wrong is a world without true leaders1.
The Indian church today is in a crisis of leadership. Many of the
leaders we have today are either incompetent or corrupt. They lack
Christian morality. There is constant tribal, caste, racial and ideological
bloodshed, in India, where Christians are concentrated. Leadership is
not focussed on power. It is the power of a life that is dedicated to serve
God and man.
The Bible
: whatever the Bible says.
The Humanist
: whatever the Humanist says.
The dictionary
: what is morally right.
18.6.1 Youth leadership is based on two foundations:

A divine call
A righteous character
18.6.2 A divine call
Your call to leadership is a gift from God to develop your abilities.

You are called to exercise the
authority and leadership.
You cannot lead without the gift to do
so.
Your leadership gift is what
God freely bestowed upon you.
Young leader
(Eph. 4:712).
knows that
Your calling has contained spheres
of responsibilities which touch a
particular people group, a city, a
nation or the world.
Your calling is God-given. You need
not compare or boast about the
different spheres of responsibilities or
authorities given to different people.
There is no special status to anyone. All are Gods gifts (2 Cor. 10:1218).
* True definition of righteousness
1 Boehme, Ron, 1989, Leadership for the 21st Century.
18.6.3 A righteous character

Your leadership is based on your character.
Your leadership, despite Gods call fails
due to your unrighteous character.
Your character is your leadership.
Your character is your destiny.
Your cooperation with Gods grace

helps you develop a righteous character
and fulfilll it to exercise a Godly
leadership within sphere that God has
wisely and lovingly given to you.
Your leadership begins with your inner
man.
Your leadership starts with the attitude
of your heart.
Your attitudes lead your actions.
Your actions cannot take place without
your motives.
Your leadership is fully exercised when
the degree of your attitude is full and
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knows that
mature.
18.7 Qualities of a Godly Youth Leader

(diagram)
PURITY
FAITH
HOPE
LOVE
COMPASSION
JUSTICE
PERSONAL
PERSONAL
PERSONAL
PERSONAL
PERSONAL
PERSONAL
HUMILITY
COMMITMENT
SACRIFICE
PRAYER
SERVICE
CHARACTER
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18.7.1 Personal purity (Matt. 5:8; 2 Cor. 7:1; 1 John 1:59;

Job 17:9)
Holy respect, fear and love for God.
Purity in the innerman.
Purity in the thought life.
Impurity in the inner life is the basic principle of
disqualification for leadership.
18.7.2 Personal faith
Faith is trust and reliance upon God.

Faith brings a person in relationship with God.
It opens the door to character formation.
It provides a leader with a vision, a foresight and leads the
group to accomplish the targets.
Faith provides the leader endurance to do the will of God.
Faith is more than having confidence in oneself. It is
focussed on God.
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18.7.3 Personal hope
Hope is based on Gods promises.

Hope is confidence about the future.
Hope is willingness to live a planned life with a long-term
goal in mind. It functions out of the Christian view of the
world and the Christian view of life. A leader should think
long-term.
A leader who has this Christian hope will only have the courage to plan
and act with future in mind.
A leader without hope is earmarked for defeat.
Hope will always take leadership over its low-spirits and
desperation.
18.7.4 A personal concept of love

Love is a well-developed definition of leadership because it involves
all the ingredients necessary for leadershipCompassion, kindness,

humility, gentleness, purity of heart, diligence, unfeigned faith,
knowledge, service, knowledge, righteousness, sound judgment,
courtesy2.
Love is a righteous commitment
Love is an obligation
Love is a responsibility. But these concepts have been slided
down, in these recent years, from its original heights into
mere lust. If love is commitment it has justifiable reason or
purpose and is motiveless.
Love is the supreme quality of leadership. It chooses the
highest good of the people. It takes many forms depending
on the state of the heart of the leader. Jesus illustrated his
love for the people in his tender exhortations and by his act
of love on the cross.
Love is the measuring rod for every word and action of a
leader.
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18.7.5 A personal compassion & involvement

Compassion means to suffer with.
It gives the idea that the leader need to come to the level of
the one who is in need or in pain.
Compassion doesnt think of rank, position or status.

Compassion doesnt behave as if you are better than other people
and it is beneath your dignity to reach out.
Compassion demands involvement.
It doesnt do lip-service or make hollow promises. One gets
involved personally and reaches out to transform.
* Colossians 3:1214; Philippians 2:12; 1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Corinthians 8:7;

Philippians 1:9; Galatians 5:13; 2 Timothy 2:22; 1 Peter 3:8.
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18.7.6 A personal sense of justice

Justice or righteousness in judgment
A good leader should deal rightly and fairly with others. No
bias. No favoritism.
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Justice can be established if the basic of the determining values is

rightly established with an attitude of righteousness in the heart of the
leader.
Justice, for the Christian, is established in the standard of Gods
WordGods standard of right and wrong. Bible is Gods revealed
laws, values and principles.
Justice must be truly fair to all. Christianity has introduced a high
level of liberty, equality and justice for all directly from the pages of the
Bible (Ezek. 45:9,10; Ps. 106:3).
A person who promotes and practices justice and righteousness
will rise to lead.
18.7.7 A personal humility
Humility is the heart of a true leader.

Humility safe-guards the leader from the abuse of power.
Leadership is power. Power tends to corrupt.
Humility is not weakness. It is the assessment of a leaders
character and gifts, it is seeing himself as he really is with his
own unworthiness and sin.
Humility controls the dominance of authority. God grants
authority on the basis of the leaders humility.
Humility provides freedom from pride and arrogance. It
consists a deep sense of ones own unworthiness in the
presence of God.
Humility was the attitude of Christ (Phil. 2:511). God
highly exalted him. He was greatest in humility therefore
made greatest in authority.
18.7.8 A personal commitment to unity
Unity is people working together. One of the strengths of

the Godhead is unity.
Unity of people brings Gods promises (Lev. 26:7,8)
Unity of the people brings Gods blessings (Ps. 133:3)
Unity in the team increases productivity. Team leadership is
the future of business.
Unity in decision-making is the best form of leadership.
Unity in the body of Christ was the theme of our Lords
Prayer (John 17:2123).
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The greatest power in the body of Christ lies in its unity.

Only a person who has a heart for unity and recognizes the source
of unity will rise to take leadership of the youth of the church.
18.7.9 A personal sacrifice
Sacrifice is a willingness to pay the price for leading in the

front.
Sacrifice brings blessings upon those who follow afterwards.
Sacrifice is the act of one who joyfully gives up his own
rights and desires for the benefit of others.
Sacrifice is painful, accompanied with great hardships.
Sacrificial leadership does not focus on self, he sees the
needs and burdens of others and willingly gives up his own
comforts for the sake of others.
18.7.10 A personal prayer
The spirituality of a youth leader is a combination of prayer and living

combination of prayer and living.
Prayer influences his conduct, behavior, manner of life and
attitudes to people.
Prayer is conversation with God. It is talking and listening to God.
In prayer we send our urgent pleas to God and quietly meditate
on him.
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Prayer is relational. It reflects qualities of relationships. Living

their prayer lives is on the basis of every individual. In prayer,
we intercede for the community which is burdened by the
fast-changing world.
Prayer is the greatest activity of a youth leader because it is the mark of

humility and the source of a leaders power. Prayer releases the power
of God into the affairs of man. The true spirituality of a youth leader is
recognized in proportion to the maturity of his prayer life.
18.7.11 A personal commitment to service
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Service means being the servant of other people.

Serving is the God-inspired leadership style.
Service of a righteous leader brings authority and influence.
A youth leader must be a:

Servant leading a holy life.
Servant of vision and faith.
Servant in hope and foresight.
Servant compassionate.
Servant just and fair.
Servant humble and transparent.
Servant who promotes unity.
Servant who sacrifices willingly.
Young leader!
Purify your heart and mind, daily, to think and act
righteously, as God gives the light for the day.
Your faith is built and strengthened through chastening and
endurance.
Have hope and courage to live and plan with long-term
objectives in mind.
People will always be drawn to you if you live a life of
unselfish love.
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A compassionate leader gets involved and reaches out to

the needy.
A Godly leader must be just and fair based on the principles
of Gods Word.
The more humble you are, the more capable you are of
leading.
A righteous leader thinks in terms of the power of unity. He
does not manipulate instead helps to reconcile.
The price of leadership is sacrifice. Those who lead will have
to make sacrifice.
To lead is to serve and to serve is to lead. (Quoted from
Leadership for the 21st Century by Ron Boehme.)
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Study Guide
1. What do the intellectuals run after?
2. What does the knowledge market do for human relationships?
3. What do you understand from Knowledge today?
4. What are the pressures faced by todays youth?

5. What must a youth leader be?
6. What are the problems faced by the church youth?

7. What does the changing society value?
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8. How is a youth leader related to his group?
9. With regards to the inner-life of a youth leader, what are the two
abilities he should have?
10. What is a culture? When does it happen?
11. What does a leader do to help his group to manage their affairs?
12. A youth leader has to make public and spiritual choices and
decisions. Explain.
13. Bringing changes into the youth groups of the church has a political
aspect. Explain.
14. What do you mean by making compromising choices? Explain this
from the cases of David, Daniel and Paul.
15. Explain the two greatnesses expected from a youth leader.
16. What is the greatest issue faced by todays youth?
17. What kind of leaders do we have in our church today?

18. Youth leadership is based on two foundations:

1) A divine call
2) A righteous character
19. Explain any 4 aspects of the divine call of a youth leader.

20. Explain any 8 aspects of the righteous character of a youth leader.

21. What do you understand by personal purity?
22. What is faith? What does it give to a youth leader?
23. What is hope? How does it function?
24. Mention any ten ingredients of love necessary for leadership?
25. What is love in leadership?
26. Love is a responsibility. Explain.
27. Love is the supreme quality of youth leadership. Explain.
28. Define compassion. How is it related to youth leadership?

29. How can justice be established?
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30. On what standard is Christian justice established.

31. How does humility safeguard a youth leader?
32. What is unity? What does it bring to the people?

33. What is sacrifice?
34. What is serving?
35. As a servant what must a youth leader be?

36. Explain the state of youth in the church.
37. Narrate the problem of poverty.
38. Narrate the problem of solution.
39. Narrate the problem of change affecting the youth.

40. Explain generation gap.
41. What are the causes of generation gap?
Chapter 19
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PREACHERLEADER
Does the Scripture support leading through preaching? The Scripture

does not provide verses to settle the argument how much of preaching
includes leading and how much of leading includes preaching.
19.1 Specific Reference to Leaders in the Bible

In the New Testament, there are some occasional references specifically
to leaders:
Remember your leaders. Obey your leaders and submit to them
(Heb. 13:7,17).
Although we may gather many valuable truths, practical guidance
and leadership principles from Jesus himself and the other biblical
leaders, the primary purpose of the Scripture is to reveal the God of the
history, creation and of mankind. The Scripture also says much about
the power of Gods Word and the role of a leader who proclaims it.
This has relevance upon the preacher/leader question today.
Acts 15:22Judas (Barnabas) and Silas as leaders.
Gal. 2:2Some acknowledged leaders
1 Tim. 5:17Elders who rule, preach and teach (Combined
responsibilities)
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1 Tim. 3:2,5Leadership combines both teaching and caring.

The Scripture accounts for many kinds of leaders besides the
preacherleaders. God also bestowed the special gifts to non-preachers
to lead within the church. But they functioned alongside the preacher
teacher.
In the Old Testament we have judges, soldiers, kings, priests
and the wise to lead people.
In the New Testament, we have leaders of public government,
church government, gifted leaders and diligent leaders
(1 Tim. 2:12; Titus 3:1; Rom. 12:6,8).
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19.2 Definitions
All the 850 definitions discovered for leadership attempt to summarize

in few words, the character and process of leadership. But a thoughtful
definition given by James Mac Gregor emphasizes the motives of the
leaders and their followers. In opposite to this, the source of Christian
leadership is Gods vision, purpose and call of men and women to
speak our his will for the people. God initiates the revelation of his will.
Scripture always begins with God but never with the motives of
men.
SPIRITUAL LEADERS
Develop visions beyond human
Develop visions within human
possibilities.
possibilities.
Depend on Gods strength.
Depend on their own strength.
Act differently
Work within a combination of
two contradicting things:
i.e. 1) God calls them to do
something, but
2) Only God can do it.
SECULAR LEADERS
SPIRITUAL LEADING
God involves himself from the beginning to the end.
God initiates, directs, sustains and ultimately
transforms.
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19.3 Power of Words in Preaching/Leading

An effective preacher/leader must master all forms of communications:
The power of words is especially seen in the Scriptures.
19.3.1 Leader and use of words

Calling foul names
Upbraiding someone with their infirmities
To make others mean
To sow discord
Keep peace
Disperse anger, threatening
Help see reason
Help plead righteous cause
Win hard arguments
Meekness wins over passion
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PROV. 15:1
Lessening others
GRIEVOUS
WORDS
SOFT
WORDS
19.3.2 Leader and weak methods of using words

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Words that give basis for false reasoning/investigation

Words that promote groundless guesses
Job 6:25
How
forcible
Words that are irritable & annoying
are
right
Words that express strong feelings in desperate conditions of others
words!
Words that are unkind build lack of respect for Godly things and
encourage Atheism
Weak
words
Words of a man, spoken rash and hasty, judge his spiritual state
will not
Words used in proverbial expressions denoting barbarous and
bring
inhuman in someones weakness and helplessness
RESULTS
Words used in pretence of kindness under the color of friendship
Words used to ensnare the other
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Words managed weakly
19.3.3 The leader and the words of Jesus
HIS WORD
GAVE NEW
DISCOVERIES
HIS EVERY
WORD WAS
WITH WEIGHT
HIS WORD
WAS A
COMMANDING
FORCE
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Words of
Jesus
(Lk:4.32)
HIS WORD
WAS A POWER
WORKING IN THE
CONSCIENCE OF
MEN
CONVERTS
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P KI N G D O M O F C H R IS
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19.3.4 The leader and the Word of God

Word
of God
Powerful
LIVELY
Quick
ACTIVE
Powerful to persuade the sinner
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Arrests the conscience of the sinner

Cuts him to the heart
Powerful to change the sinner
Comforts the sinner
Powerful to console the sinner
Soothes his wounds
Powerful to heal the sinner
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Word of God: Sharper than any other sword
It enters and cuts where no other instrument can do

It cuts sharply It divides
It cuts a soul from ill-temper

It cuts a soul from pride to humility
It opens-up a sinner inside out for him to see himself
It cuts a sinner to discern the thoughts & intents of his heart
It cuts a perverse spirit to be meek and obedient
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Gods power works through his words.

This conviction plays a transformational role in preaching
and leading.
In speaking his words the speaker shares the power to
transform people.
The power of Gods Word approves preaching as the
primary means that God uses to transform his people his
will.
When people obey Gods call to relate his word, they
become leaders. They may not realize it at the beginning.
This shows that God is not looking for leaders but for
Servants of the Word#.
When God calls you to be a servant of the Word to speak out the
scriptural truth, you are a leader.
19.4 Leadership Gifts
In the New Testament, we have five leadership gifts: Apostles, Prophets,

Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers.
We may be able to argue about their linkage and difference. But
they will be involved in speaking Gods Word.
KNOW THIS
All key leaders proclaim Gods Word.

All who proclaim Gods Word are key leaders.
One cannot proclaim Gods Word without leading his people.
Speaking scriptural truth on behalf of others also makes a
leader.
# Read how Isaiah responded to Gods call to tell his Word (Isa. 59; Ezek. 22). The call
came for a servant.
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Gods Spokesperson will certainly lead others.

Gods unique power is at work whenever his servants speak
for him and his glory.
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God selected Aaron to speak for Moses. But Moses is dominant/more

noticeable in this arrangement as Gods authoritative speaker. At first he
excused himself because of his speech problem. But the rebuke God gave
him is the master stroke for all preacher/leaders (read Exodus 4:1112).
Moses spoke Gods Word and at the same time confronted Pharaohs power
to transform his people in their rights and responsibilities. He was always
with Gods vision and purpose. He depended on Gods strength, Gods
methodology. God combines leadership and preaching.
19.5 Jesus, the Transformational Leader

Jesus was the greatest transformational leader in the history of mankind.
Jesus changed the idea of leadership by what he said and did.
But primarily he was a preacher. Jesus came. . .
proclaiming (Matt. 4:3, 9:35).
He began with preaching (Luke 4:43).
He continued preaching (Luke 8:11)
Three years later (Luke 20:1)
After resurrection (Luke 24)
He was Word made flesh (John 1:14)
He gave out words with power. I am the Way, the Truth,
and the Life(John 14:6).
KNOW THIS
Jesus leads as a preacher by his preaching.

Jesus preaches as a leader.
Jesus, by his preaching, breaks open the kingdom of God
for man.

Jesus, through his ransom on the cross:
Breaks open the eternal destiny for man
Breaks open the trail for the church, changing the
course of human existence.
In Jesus we have both the message and the messenger
(Matt 10:45, 16:18).
19.6 What Leadership Is Not
Jesus demonstrated what leadership is not;
Leadership is not traditional inheritance
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Leadership is not power, ambition, authority

Mark 10:3545
the leadership modeled by jesus

Led by serving
Not status-driven leadership
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Service-driven leadership
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No choices. No plans, No visions
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John 13:17
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Sought
Fathers
will,
vision
and
plan
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servant: the profoundest model of a preacher/leader
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19.7 Examples of Preaching / Leading in the New

Testament
In the Epistles we have other examples of preaching/
leading.
CORE VALUE
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Acts 6
The apostles realized their

responsibilies.
The priority of preaching with

prayer
The direcng/leading/delegang
new task
Apostle Paul was a Preacher/leader. Paul was the preacher and leader
of a Mission Team. Paul was the preacher and leader of a Mission
Organization. Pauls preaching and leading set up local congregations.
those who proclaim gods word are gods leaders
19.8 Gods Word and Preaching / Leading

Christian leadership undoubtedly depends upon Gods Word.
Those who preach Gods Word cannot avoid their
responsibility of leadership.

in other words
Those who avoid leadership responsibility have to deny the power of
Gods Word to change lives.
Preaching of Gods Word is supremely important for
leaders to follow.
19.9 PreacherLeader Communicators

Preacherleader. Be a good communicator.
Repeat/practice what God has done.

Relate what God is doing.
Share what God has promised to do.
19.10 Usefulness of Gods Word
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Preacherleaders need Gods Word (2 Tim. 3:16):

Useful for :
Teaching
= Right understanding of truth.
Reproof
= Challenging a persons old way
of thinking and living.
Correction
= Opening up to new ways of
living.
Training in righteousness = How right living with God is a
continued process of learning and
practice.
This is the scriptural agenda to move a person away from (transform)
old life into new. These are the leadership principles the Scripture
illustrates. However contemporary or modern the leadership ideas
and concepts may sound preachers are not to bring urgency into
the Scripture but release urgency from within the Scripture because
Scripture reveals and generates Gods purposes. It is Gods Word. It
has its own agenda for creating long-term change.
19.11 Prophetic Relationship of PreacherLeaders

Preacher-leaders come in the long line of prophets and apostles who
speak Gods Word and His deeds. They stand under Gods authority
(1 Pet. 4:11), with passion and boldness.
They

Testify Gods holiness

Read signs of times in the light of Gods revealed will
Warn about false successes (Isa. 43)
Speak of peace but rejects false peace (Jer. 23)
Recall community back to faith in God
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Prophets:
They see reality
They see either God or absence of God
They know the vitality of God and speak accordingly
They discover Gods character and purpose
19.12 No Leadership without Preaching
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1) Because leadership, if separated from preaching

Loses scriptural foundations
Increases the danger of leadership declining into human
recommendations
Becomes empty of the Holy Spirit
Becomes empty of spiritual understanding
Inclines to pride and self-glory

Can easily promote the development of humanistic models
of leadership replacing Gods unique models of leadership
shown in the Scripture. Gods leaders have no direct
equivalent even in the greatest leadership books.
Can dispense the influence of Holy Spirit altogether. Human success,

efficiency, achievements are more glorified than God. The biblical
principles of leadership falls in the hands of influential intruders
displacing any need for trusting God and for giving into the guidance
of the Holy Spirit.
Preaching must keep challenging the church with priorities of
spiritual wisdom, prayer, discernment reminding every leader that they
have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). When the church is misled
by modern business principles and models and the church begins to
measure their success in numbers and financial figures, turning the
church into a marketing organization, the preaching has to ensure that

Gods Word, Gods power guides and shapes the leader (Acts 15:28;
1 Cor. 2:1112).
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Can twist theology and knock-down spiritual paradoxes.

Secular leadership is not concerned with sin, salvation, forgiveness,
by grace, through faith, conversion etc. They speak boldly about
planning, projects, achieving targets etc. No forgiveness for failure. But
for Christian leaders everything depends on Gods grace and purpose.
The preaching has to declare the mighty acts of God in forgiving an
erred leader who comes seeking reconciliation. God in his mercy and
grace offers him a second chance. No secular organization will do that.
Secular leaders consider Biblical paradoxes confusing:
The sayings of Christ:
The Beatitudes
The leaders are servants
The poor are rich
The sayings of Paul:
Strength in weakness
Greatest in love
They are neither practicable nor fit in the secular leadership models.
Preachers of the Word should guard against the freedom with
which the secular leaders, making simple connections of their ideas
of leaderships with Bible texts and reducing the ministries of Moses,
Joshua, Nehemiah, Jesus, etc. to mere business models of the modern
times.
19.13 No Preaching without Leadership

Without leadership, preaching becomes void of experience
and application
Without leadership, preaching becomes weak and inadequate
Without leadership, preaching is not true to life and lacks
accurate knowledge of preaching
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Without leadership, preaching cannot obtain knowledge

about issues such as change, conflicts, purposefulness, aims
and plans.
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1. Leadership makes the preaching sensible and practical according

to the rapid change happening in the current culture. The leaders are
partly responsible for these changes. But the preachers are unaware of
the hugeness and intensity of these changes. For them it is going on
doing what we have been doing theme. And they will remain where
they are now. Preachers should preach change. They should develop
and improve the demands of the ministry, to meet the current setting,
through continuous learning and application.
Preachers spiritualize the change, not generally, but specifically by
preaching new life, for individual change of heart and mind through
repentance and faith in the Lord. This is the leadership challenge of
preachers.
2. The Preacher is unenthusiastic about conflicts. But leadership studies

it and faces its consequences, and, suggests ways to resolve the tension.
Conflict can be destructive if lost sight of common vision
Conflicts can be productive if new understanding emerges
Presence of conflict is a part and parcel of the mission of the
preacher. Do not patch up conflict with the peace-sticker (Jer. 6&7).
Let peace sprout out through conflict.
Preachers, be wise!
When conflicts develop in your ministry one church/ministry
members will be enticed to play one preacher against another preacher.
Difference of opinion/disagreement.
3. Leadership teaches preachers
How to involve in different situations in order to control
or improve it
How to give independently a fresh start/make a process to
bring about a desired change with favorable outcome.
The preachers are trapped between the expectations of others and

the expectations of the leadership. The leadership must abstain
from imposing hard works upon the preachers to press out winning
outcomes. Instead the preachersteachers need to engage themselves to
bring out Gods will and purpose to the process of change. Preaching
needs leadership as much as leadership needs preaching. When Christ
calls out preachers he creates a unique work force of them as leaders of
his church to declare his word, to transform communities.
Preachers have God-given responsibility to lead.
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19.14 The Art of Making a PreacherLeader

the biblical task of preaching / leading
CALL
VOCATION
Obedience to the call of preaching/leading

Obedience to the vocation of preaching/leading
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Option 1
When God calls people to be preachers he calls them as

leaders as well.
One cannot force or bribe Gods calling
God calls a particular person who responds with his gifting,
personality and relationships
God perceives human hearts
Option 2
who they are with their people

how they are in character, talent, work
the place where God appointed them
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HOW
WHERE
Option 3
Openness in obedience to God (obediencea response of faith)
19.15 Identifying Types and Kinds of Preacher

19.14Leader
IDENTIFYING TYPES AND KINDS OF PREACHER/LEADER
FOUR TYPES OF PREACHERS
HERALD
DIRECTIVE
TEACHER
INDUCTIVE
STRATEGIC
TEAM BUILDING
NARRATIVE
OPERATIONAL
FOUR LEADERSHIP
APTITUDES
H A B I T U A L
S I T U A T I O N A L
TWO TYPES OF
LEADERS
B
HABITUAL LEADERS:
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Chrysostom
Augustine
Martin Luther
John Calvin
John Wesley
Finney
Spurgeon, etc.
Of the Bible A people who are called and

gifted by God. They can in
no way escape leading because
leadership is made into their
Of
system. Habitually, they provide
History direction guides people to take
appropriate course of action by
facilitating life transformation
and obedience to God.
Peter, Paul
SITUATIONAL LEADERS
Moses Exhorted Joshua,
God sometimes forces some

Be strong and courageous people of his choice, as situation
demands, into leadership in
(Josh. 1:16).
spite of their incapabilities. Its
unnatural. It is an uneasy feeling
and uncomfortable struggle.
Their success is counted on
their ability to avoid failure.
Majority of the preacher/leaders
are situational leaders. They can
develop leadership skills to lead
Gods people.
The leadership aptitudes
Define a set of abilities that
enables leadership to deliver with
excellence.
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19.16 The Four Primary Leadership Aptitudes

A
DIRECTING LEADER
CONNECTS
HERALD PREACHERS
WELL WITH
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Has sense of right action

Negative Points: Impatient
Restless
Short attention
Causes chaos
Have ability to direct

Have emotional
engagement with
people
Have compelling
biblical vision
Have excitement,
passion
Exhort people with
spiritual conviction
E.g. Charles Spurgeon
A herald and directing
leader
Draws others into vision

Motivates others
Simulates imagination
Is effective public speaker
Makes easy decisions
STRATEGIC LEADERS
CONNECT
TEACHERPREACHER
WELL WITH
Amass information
Think through possible
choices
Have cerebral activity
Work out concepts
logically
Negative Points:
Less vision
Pretend thoroughness
Asks hard questions
Takes painful preparations
Perfectionists
Slow decision-making
Emotionally detached.
Has cerebral
approach
Has much attention
to details
A vision developer
A vision shaper
At times habitual
too
e.g. John Stotthad a
teacherpreacher ability
to strategize.
C
TEAM BUILDING LEADER
CONNECTS
INDUCTIVE PREACHER
WELL WITH
Able to develop
structures to lead
hearers of the
gospel
Stresses the need
to bring people to
a point of facing
problems with them
practically
Integrates practical
challenge
into
illustrations
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Has ability to master

processes
Develops vision, resources,
available opportunities
Provides organizational
structures
Looks for new
opportunities new
solutions
Is a concrete thinker
Devotes more time to
details
Negative Points:
Dislikes conflicts
Behaves like managers then
leaders
Preachers may reflect on these matchings to find who they are as

the agents of change. Each preacher should identify which style and
aptitude most sufficiently suit the type of his leadership. His approach
to leadership will bring greatest joy and fulfillment to him and to the
people whom God called him to lead as preacherleader.
Extract from the book, 360-Degree Leadership,
by Michael J. Quicke,
OM, Authentic, 2008.
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Study Guide
1. What is the primary purpose of the Scripture upon Preacher-leader
question?
2. What is the source of Christian leadership?
3. Differentiate between secular leaders and spiritual leaders.
4. What do you understand by spiritual leading?
5. How do you see the power of words in the Scripture? Explain with
the help of diagram.
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6. Gods power works through His Word. What does this conviction
do to preaching/leading?
7. When are you a leader?
8. We have five leadership gifts in the ScriptureApostles, Prophets,

Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers. They may have differences, but
in what point are they together?
9. All key leaders ...................... All proclaim Gods Word
..................... on behalf of others also ...............
10. What was Jesus primarily?
11. Jesus by his preaching ...............................
Jesus through his ransom.

...........................................
...........................................
12. What is not leadership according to Jesus?
13. What is leadership modeled by Jesus?
14. What is the profoundest model of a preacher/leader?

15. Explain Acts 6 on apostles realization of their responsibilities?
16. How was Apostle Paul a preacher/leader?
17. Christian leadership undoubtedly depends upon Gods Word.
How? Explain.

18. In what ways do preacher/teachers communicate?
19. Gods Word is useful for
a. ........................................
b. ........................................
c. ........................................
d. ........................................
20. Teaching is ................................
21. Reproof is ..................................

22. Correction is .............................
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23. Training in righteousness is ...................................
24. Explain the relationship between preacher/leaders with biblical

prophets.
25. What do the prophets do?
26. What did the prophets see and know?
27. What becomes of leadership if it is separated from preaching?

28. What things can happen if leadership is separated from preaching?
29. Gods leaders have no direct equivalent. Do you agree? How?
30. Every leader to have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). What is
mind of Christ and how is it related to the leaders?
31. How theology can be twisted if leadership is separated from
preaching?
32. How secular leaders consider biblical paradoxes?
33. What becomes of preaching without leadership?
34. Preachers should preach change. Explain the significance of this

statement. What does this change mean?
35. How do preaching and leadership react to conflict?
36. In what ways does leadership teach preachers?
37. How to express obedience to call?
38. What is vocation concerned about?
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39. Explain Habitual leaders.

40. Explain Situational leaders.
41. Who is a directing leader? What are his negative points?
42. Who is a Herald preacher?
43. How is a Herald preacher connected to Directing leader?
44. Who is a Strategic leader related to teacherpreacher?
45. Who is a team building leader? How is he related to Inductive

preacher?
46. Who is an Operational leader?
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47. Who is a Narrative preacher?
48. How is a narrative preacher connected to operational leader?
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CONCLUSION: LEADERS BE WARNED
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We were shown in the earlier chapters the methods, styles, processes of

leadership. They give us the idea that leadership comes by following/
adopting certain steps. True, but leading doesnt come easy. What you
see inside the text may not be what you will face outside with people
and situations. The load of responsibilities you carry get you involved
in stress, tension and anxieties.
But the greatest problem of leadership is when you become a
successful leader wherein you will be:
With the world

glorified by men
With yourself
glorified by self
With God you are
Appreciated
Applauded
Recognized
Established
Prosperous
Self confident
Self impressed
Self gain
Unimpressed
success
goeson
to to
you
head
on
Success goes
your
head
You forget God who accomplishes good

works.
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Leader! you need to learn how to handle success in your leadership, lest
you may rob God of his glory that he cuts you down like King Uzziah
(2 Chron. 26).
Who was King Uzziah?
The boy-king of Jerusalem
He was obedient
He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord as his
father Amaziah.
He was prosperous because he sought the Lord. God
prospered him.
He ruled fifty-two years.
What were the achievements of King Uzziah?

He strengthened his kingdom by reclaiming the old port
town Eloth (Ezion-Geber) on the eastern tip of Red Sea for
trade and defence.
Warred against Philistines, Arabians, Ammonites, Moabites
and built cities.
Fortified Jerusalem and raised a well-equipped army.
Took up substantial agricultural projects with cistern built
to irrigate them.
Uzziah was an agriculturist. He made many building
projects which included vineyards, orchards, known today
as green buildings.
What led to Uzziahs downfall?

When he became famous pride went to his heart. He began
doing things that were not right in the sight of the Lord.
When he became strong he forgot his strength-giver
and disobeyed by entering into the sanctuary to
burn the incense, a duty solely assigned to the priests
(Lev. 10:13; Num. 16: 140), and violated Gods design
for worship.
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When he was rebuked and corrected by the priests, instead

of admitting his mistake, he was arrogant, angry and refused
Godly counseling; because he was hardened by pride.
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What was the consequence?

God judged him with leprosy and he remained a leper till
death (2 Chron. 26:21).
He was removed from the presence of the Lord for he was
unclean. He was removed from the people to whom he was
the king (Lev. 13:4546).
He had to live in isolation the rest of his life and died in
disgrace (Chron. 26:2123), because he desired to steal
Gods glory.
LEADER:
Beware of the inner pride that boils within you when you
have successfully achieved the aims and objectives of your
ministry.
Beware of that dangerous urge in you to build a gospel
kingdom for yourself and try to employ God to accomplish
it.
Beware of the recognition, praise, position and power you
receive where you consider yourself above criticism and
refuse to heed instructions.
Beware of your trust in money, materials, influential people,
financing agencies, sponsors and programs with hidden
agendas by which Gods help is no more considered.
Beware of your acquaintance with the things of God that
you take them lightly and show disrespect and disregard
for the holy law of God and his judgment. The power and
authority vested in you may make you defy Gods law and
in your arrogance proceed to do things which are not Gods
will for you. You begin to consider that Gods help is not an
essential part of your ministry.
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Whenever you are tempted to take credit for your success and
achievements turn to James 1:17, and recognize the truth stated by
James, Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes
down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or
shadow of turning. Take heed to the admonition given by Paul with
a direct and penetrating question, For who makes you differ from
another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you
did indeed receive it , why do you boast as if you had not received it?
(1 Cor. 4:7). In the end join the psalmist who is giving thanks and
glory to God saying, Not unto us , O Lord, not unto us . But to
your name give glory, Because of your mercy, Because of your truth
(Ps. 115:1). Then lead on with all humility reminding yourself that
every success, every power, every position, every prosperity comes from
God.
Decision/Commitment by the Reader / Student
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These chapters are not written that you might get some intellectual
awareness about Leadership but for you to become a successful leader
with a vision and burden from the Lord to lead his church and its allied
services.
Now, having arrived at the end of your reading, take a look at the
needs around you. There are many hundreds of people-groups waiting
for the Gospel message. There are missionaries, evangelists, preachers,
teachers, doctors, nurses, linguists, writers, printers, engineers,
technicians, institutions, organizations, etc are longing for Leadership.
You want to start something new, something better in the places of
greatest need but you soon shrink back acknowledge the enormity of
the needit is simply hard to help. And you are not just sure how, if
at all you make an effort, it can get started.
It is not what you are but who God is that matters and how much
you allow your life to be a channel for him to work through. It is your
yieldness to the Holy Spirit which decides that course of your action
and to turn your vision into reality.
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MY DECISION
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I, ............................................ hereby solemnly declare, that

I commit myself consciously and wilfully to take up responsibilities
of a leader in my church/organization/society/institution, etc and in
their various projects, as the Lord opens the door, that I may with
Gods help, shape and share the vision, develop a progressive and
creative plan, strategize and mobilize people-driven activities for the
furtherance of the gospel.
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I. Founder of New Life Ministries (NLM) India, a National
Christian Ministries for Missions, Evangelism, Education and
Humanitarian Services (Estd. 1979).
II. Founder of Gilgal Children Homes (Estd. 1981). Humanitarian

Service centers of NLM.
III. Founder of Trivandram Bible College (TBC) (Estd. 1989).
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IV. Co-founder of Advancing Native Mission, USA (Estd 1992).

V. Co-founder and director of Operation Barnabas International of
ANM (Estd. 1995)
VI. Regional director, Kidstown International.
VII. South Asia Director for Worldlink International
VIII. South Asia Director for Evangelical Bible College of Western

Australia
IX. Founder and president of Equipping Indigenous Ministries
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The Measure of a Christian Leader by brother C. V. John is

The book is wellwritten, By well-written, I mean that the subject

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3. TYPES, KINDS, CONCEPTS, AUTHORITY OF

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4. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

7. THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP

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9. THE LEADER AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

10. ERRORS IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP

11. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF TIME

8. LEADERSHIP AND GROUP DYNAMICS

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12. LEADERSHIP AND FINANCE

13. ROLE OF COMMUNICATION IN LEADERSHIP

15. SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP

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15.4 Leadership Styles

17. SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP

18. YOUTH LEADERSHIP TODAY

16. ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP

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Conclusion: Leaders Be Warned

Thanks to my daughter Grace for reading the manuscript and

Thank you J.G.Paul, my companion in ministry for 3 decades,

Thanks to Mr. Arogyaswamy and Mr. Kiran Kumar for editing

This book is dedicated to the fond memory of my partner in Global

This book is published for:

Leaders of congregations, denominations, parachurch

Leaders of educational institutions, leadership training programs,

In 1963, at the end of four years of theological training in a reputed

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tremendous task. As I look back to the errors I committed as a leader, I

very much encouraging to note that several missionary institutes and

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In this modern world we are acquainted and associated with group

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The effectiveness of a leader today depends on his/her flexibility to

Biblical principles of leadership are different from the leadership

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that the model defined by Jesus is adequate for secular organizations

1.1 Business Worlds Principles of Leadership:

The worldly management pattern gives emphasis on education, training,

1.2 Biblical Principles of Leadership

In 2 Timothy 3:16, Apostle Paul, All Scripture is given by inspiration of

Jesus the CEO has clearly stated his model of leadership in

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1.3 Leadership Principles Practices of Jesus

(1) He loved them to the end (John 13:1)Leading

Jesus humbled himself and washed the feet of his followers

Commercial establishments may say the expression of such

1.4 Leadership Principles

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It is unfortunate to see in several Christian churches and Christian

1.5 Leadership Principles

Management standard and principles of the corporate world change

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4. Leaders should not behave as lords but as E__________ and S

Who are well involved

These make an organizaon possible