Apologetics Chapter 13-16 Flashcards
Moral Excellence
Virtue
Defines the fundamental purpose of your existence, succintly describing why you exist and what you are meant to do.
Mission
Existing conditions or surroundings
Circumstances
Depicts a long-term view of the way your world will look in the future if you are successful in carrying out your mission
Vision
Cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force
Draw
Describes the strategy that culminates in you actually fulfilling your mission
Action
To make clear and distinct
Articulate
See in one’s mind something of beauty, charm, value, or desirability
Dream
What one believes to have relative worth, merit, or importance
Values
Mental image representing something in a graphic sense
Picture
A system of principles used for guidance in practical affairs
Philosophy
Purpose towards which an endeavor is directed
Goal
Any question or matter involving danger, doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty
Problem
A job, assignment, chore, or act of work to be carried out.
Task
A situation with a good chance or prospect for advancement or success
Opportuinty
The ability to arouse an animating, quickening or exalting influence.
Inspiration
Taking action to bring about change in your everyday situation by mobilizing resources around you
Personal Leadership
A compelling desire for some type of achievement or distinction
Ambition
Taking action that brings about change in one’s area of influence by mobilizing others to accomplish a shared vision.
Informal Positional Leadership
The ability to see in one’s mind something that is not real in the immediate setting
Imagination
When an individual believes their life and behavior is primarily ruled by the decisions and actions of other people or outside circumstances.
External Sense of Victimization
A plan, method, or series of actions for obtaining a specific goal or result.
Strategy
When an individual believes that under the guidance of God in their life and behavior is governed by their personal decisions and actions
Internal Sense of Responsibility
A line of thought or action leading from one point of reference to another
Direction
A president, general, CEO of a corporation, pastor or principal of a school are examples of what
Formal Positional Leadership
What are the six concepts in the Great Commission that guide our personal mission and set the context for our overall life calling
Go Make disciples Baptize Teach Have all authority Christ is with you
What are the four key elements that stand out as components in the working definition of leadership provided in the text?
Vision
Action
Mobilization
Change
What are the five qualities that help to produce informal positional leadership
Credibility Inspiration Persuasion Empathy Partnership
What are the five qualities that help to produce formal positional leadership?
Serving Modeling Positioning Envisioning Investing
What are the three ways a formal leader can position themselves in relation to those they lead?
Above
Ahead
Alongside
What are the four ways a leader can show that investing in those they lead is a priority?
Spend time with them
Provide adequate resources
Provide access to info
Share
What are the five qualities that help to produce personal leadership?
Principles Conviction Initiative Insight Trail-Blazing
What are the four areas that the textbook identified as the needs of the world that draw us?
People
Problems
Locations
Opportunities
What are the four steps that will take you from vision to action in realizing your life calling?
Establish direction
set SMART goals
Develop a strategy
Take action
What are SMART goals?
Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-Framed
Which verse from scripture details Jesus’ teaching entitled “The Great Commission”
Matthew 18-20
Which verse from scripture teaches us the way to receive the desires of our heart
Psalm 37:4
Which verse from scripture teaches us that “without a vision, the people will perish”
Proverbs 29:18
Which New Testament disciple used the human body to teach about accepting who we are and to work together as Chrisitians
Paul
This person was profiled in the textbook to teach us how to see possibilities in situations where we once only saw challenges
Elisha
This person was profiled in the textbook to teach about hope and encouragement in the times of despair and discouragement.
Isaiah
This person is an example of someone who was never happy in accepting God’s role in their lves
Jonah
This person was profiled in the textbook to teach that life is greater and more fulfilled when we look beyond meeting just our physical needs
The Samaritan Woman
This person was used as an example of having influence in a position of informal positional leadership
Jethro
The individual who wrote a book promoting the self-serving moral dilemma that it is easier to develop the perception that one has the qualities of a good leader instead of working hard to actually develop those qualities
Niccolo Machiavelli
The individual who promoted the concept of “win-win” to reinforce the belief that forming a partnership with others is the best form of leadership.
Stephen Covey
The individual who gave one of the best examples of displaying a passionate vision in his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The individual who taught that individuals will find their life calling in the work that you need and the world needs to have done.
Frederick Buechner
What is the order in which an individual develops their leadership skills?
Person, Informal Position, Formal Position
Individuals display this quality when they focus on equality and mutual respect rather than dominance and subordination.
Partnership
This quality is built upon the principles, convictions, and insights that are developed in personal leadership.
Credibility
Individuals displaying this quality have seen growth in their emotional strengths and can be further developed and enhanced if a person seeks it and practices it.
Empathy
Individuals displaying this quality have demonstrated behaviors in their own life that evokes others to aspire to follow them
Inspiration
Which of the following was NOT used as an exercise at the end of chapter 13 for an individual to determine how effective their personal leadership is
Initiative
INTENSITY
Servanthood
Integrity
This is the intentional and regular practice of being able to ask others to perform a task because they know you are willing to do it yourself.
Modeling
This is the mindset in a leader that places the needs of those led before one’s own self-interest.
Serving
When a formal leader leads from this position, they are cautioned about lulling their followers into an unhealthy dependence.
Ahead
When a formal leader leads from this position, they are cautioned about their followers finding difficulty in determining who is actually responsible for the follow through of any given projet
Alongside
When a formal leader leads from this position, they are cautioned about using fear as a motivator resulting in compliance rather than creativity growth
Above
Leaders in this position often use the fear-tactic of “losing one’s job” or “position” to motivate compliance rather than growth.
Above
Leaders in this position promote individual development, increase appreciation of diversity, and results in a sense of self-worth in those they lead
Ahead
In formal positional leadership, the text recommends that the leader positions themselves above those he leads __% of the time
5%
Most of the great inventions of the world came about through people with this quality due to their consistent challenges of the status quo with new possibilities and concepts.
Insight
People who exhibit the quality of being fearless and taking the risks that are necessary to reach a better place
Trailblazing
People who display this quality are not concerned about popularity or manipulation when taking action to bring about change
Principles
People who display this quality believe they can make a difference and take action
Initiative
People who display this quality have the capacity to discern the hidden nature of situations and generate solutions to perplexing challenges.
Initiative
People who display this quality have an attitude that arises primarily from an internal sense of responsibility
Initiative
Most of the greatest inventions of the world came from people who consistently challenge the status quo with this quality.
Insight
The ingredient of allowing the voices of your spirit, soul, and heart to speak as loud as your mind and body.
Inspiration
The ingredient of guiding your dreams towards your own images rather than those of others
Independence
The ingredient of developing a life-changing vision through the formation of a conscious idea or mental image of something you have never before wholly thought of in reality.
Imagination
Depicts a long-term view of the way your world will look in the future if you are successful.
Vision
Defines the fundamental purpose of your existence, succinctly describing why you exist and what you are meant to do in life.
Mission
Defines your core belief by what your actions show what you believe to have worth, merit, and importance.
Values
Describes the strategy that culminates in you actually fulfilling what you set out to do in life
Action
Which of the following is NOT one of the three desires of our heart that is fulfilled upon knowing our Life Calling?
Meaning
Significance
HAPPINESS
Hope
What is the primary reason individuals stop dreaming or having hope in their dreams?
They are afraid of dissapointment
In this role, the leader provides resources for empowering those led to accomplish a shared vision
Dream-maker
In this role, the leader imagines a better future, avoids boundaries, and allows creativity to run free.
Dreamer
In this role, the leader helps those led to catch and endorse the same vision, as well as expand and enhance the vision
Dream-caster
The quality of imagining and articulating exciting future possibilities
Envisioning
The individual who tempted Narcissus in order to make him suffer for his proud and disdainful behavior
Nemesis
The reason that Narcissus died was due to:
Desperation
