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Looking at Leadership
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Introduction
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Introduction
• Skills and wisdom • Recognise and support leadership •Master builder comes alongside us • Different gifts and abilities • Guiding us towards the right shape and structure
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Leadership pointers
• First believers looked to the apostles for leadership and guidance • Apostles: Eyewitnesses • Second word to describe oversight: Elders
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Leadership pointers
• Characteristics of someone who is a leader: • Truthful, •Monogamous, • Not a drunk, • Responsible parent,
• Spiritually mature, • Faithful, •Wise.
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Leadership pointers
• Deacon simply means servant or minister • A servant following the example and teaching of Jesus • The New Testament is very fluid in how it uses words to describe leadership • The early church made things up as they went along • At each stage God’s people prayed and then responded
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Leadership pointers
• Oversight: • Servanthood:
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Leadership pointers
•We all have different gifts and abilities • Leaders come in all shapes and styles • Leadership in church should be plural • In leadership our character is more important than our titles •We should be ready to adapt and change as God’s plans unfold
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Leadership today
•Minister(s) with the Church Secretary and Treasurer and Elders and at the moment one Deacon, fulfil the Oversight role of leadership.
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Leadership today
•watching over the flock • discernment • prayer • ensuring order (everything done in order)
• promoting love • encouraging maturity with no personal agenda • spiritual direction • biblically literate • spiritually mature
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Leadership today
• Each of the Elders is also allocated an area of church life to be keeping an eye on through the Team structure the church has adopted
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Practical Team
• Area of influence: The whole church • Focus statement: Actively encouraging the vision of the church in practical support using the gifts God gives and the talents he has provided
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Mission Team
• Area of influence: Focusing on the community • Focus statement: Enabling individuals to come to a personal relationship with Jesus
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Worship Team
• Area of influence: Focusing on the crowd • Focus statement: Encouraging all to actively respond to God’s love with relevance and reverence
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Pastoral Team
• Area of influence: Focusing on the congregation • Focus statement: Each member knowing they are accepted, supported and valued in the church family.
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Discipleship Team
• Area of influence: Focusing on the committed • Focus statement: Encouraging people to grow in a closer relationship with God
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Youth & Childrens’ Team
• Area of influence: Focusing on the whole church • Focus statement: Creatively engaging with young people, children and families with the acceptance and care of God.
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Leadership today
• Each team has a Team Leader who fulfil more of the Servanthood leadership role
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Who appoints?
• God has a plan and a purpose • The basic answer to the fundamental question of who appoints leaders is simply God. • God has given each church the leaders necessary • How do we recognise and then accept the people God has chosen for leadership
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How does God appoint leaders?
• Recognition of the whole church Acts 6:2-3 • Recognition of leaders Acts 14:23,Titus 1:5 • As we pray, and the more we look up and seek God’s face the more confident we can be of his leading and direction
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How do we respond?
• Spiritually: • Praying that God would confirm • Be open to our own call to be a leader or helper • Praying for the leaders • Peace in our hearts that God has chosen that person •Walk by faith not by sight – nor by feelings or personality
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How do we respond?
• Practically: • Nomination process • Be at the church meeting • Prayerfully consider standing for leadership if others have seen God’s gifting and character in us • Perhaps your spiritual and practical challenge this morning is to become a member
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Looking at Leadership
• The truths we have been thinking about call us to have a confidence in God’s plan and purpose for our lives, individually and together • Trust God with all that we are
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Looking at Leadership
•We recognise we need men and women to lead in oversight and servanthood roles • The character of our leaders is more important than job titles, age or experience
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Looking at Leadership
• God calls us all to engage as members of his Church as we look to the future • Our responsibility is to support those who lead and to discover the place where we can serve and engage with God’s mission