Workshop: 10 Leadership Lessons That Will Make You Invaluable to Your Church

1. Be a backstage leader. Who you are is more important that what you do. If you will be who you are supposed to be, you will do what you are supposed to do.

Spend time with Jesus.

And He appointed twelve that they might be with Him, and that He might send them to preach Mark 3:14 When you pray, go into your room - to the secret place, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Matthew 6:6

Guard your heart. Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Proverbs 4:23

Run from sin.

What is backstage eventually will come out on front stage. 2. Bear fruit. Top 2 reasons people pick a church. How friendly are you? What do you have for my kids? 3. Bring challenges and solutions. Average leaders bring up challenges. Invaluable leaders bring up challenges and solutions. You will become invaluable for the solutions you bring forward, not for the problems you bring up. 4. Protect the unity of your church. How good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity. Psalm 133:1 This is how everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:35. 5. Be an encourager. 6. Be a self - starter.

"Years ago I stopped worrying about how to grow our church and instead focused on growing me. As I grew me, our church grew." -Rick Warren If had 6 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 4 sharpening my axe. -Abraham Lincoln

Motivate yourself. Encourage yourself.

"And David was greatly distressed: for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons, and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God."

Control yourself.

"Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age." Titus 2:12

Grow yourself. Discipline yourself.

"All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize." -I Corinthians 9:25 "But if I say I'll never mention the Lord or speak in His name, His word burns in my heart like a fire. It's like a fire in my

bones! I am worn out trying to hold it in! I can't do it! Jeremiah 20:9 7. Be a servant leader. 8. Reproduce yourself. 9. Finish strong. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, I have finished my course. 2 Timothy Greatest in ministry is not measured in years, but in decades. 10. Stay humble. Everyone says they are teachable until there is a lesson to be learned.