Midterm Flashcards
What is leadership?
Some one who strives for togetherness in christ-like Community, assumes responsibility for their people treat them as they do themselves and tries to be present
Community
A diverse group of people who live life together and are welcoming to all that shares a commonality. A group of people who are vulnerable, who seek to build trust in order to creat a bond where all members participate and who desire to grow in their strengths and weakness.
5 dimensions of biblical understanding
1 humility/ dependent
2. Submission to God
3. Purpose: Mission/ vision/ values
4. Commitment to those you serve
5. Multiplication
Humility
A clear view of who God is and therefore who we are
What can get in the was of humility and dependence?
Pride
Substituting ones own authority and greatness in place A God’s.
How to identify pride
Consumed with what others think
Down on yourself
Lack a prayer
How to grow in humility
Share your mistakes (and be willing to make them)
Engage in dialogue, not debates
Welcome new ideas and support others
Embrace uncertainty
Practice being a follower
Be passionately curious
What gets in the way A submitting to God?
When we struggle to give our a “rights” to him
What helps to submit to God?
Relinquishing our rights
Biblical understanding of submission?
The biblical understanding of leadership calls us to recognize our leader and allow him to lead us.
Understanding of purpose
The biblical understanding of leadership requires us to define our mission as we follow our leader and to renew and refresh our focus when we spend time with him.
Understanding of commitment
The biblical understanding of leadership calls us close to our saviour. It’s from us his loving kindness we love others, we serve them, we lead them to his loving kindness
Understanding of multiplication
A biblical understanding of leadership calls as to teach and lead others so that they may do the same, until Christ returns.
Values
Guiding principles that help declare behaviour, determine how you make decisions. Underpinnings for everything that we do and why we do it
Mission
An answer to why you exist. A definition of your present state or purpose.
Answers:
What do you do
What do you do it for
How do you do it
Vision
A description of where you are going. Your desired future state, A picture of the future that creates passionate people