Leadership in Context

There are three references in the New Testament that say, “Do not grow weary.” It’s not just becoming weary or letting weary happen to you. There is a process by which weariness happens. Weariness is different than being tired or exhausted. When you are tired, a good night’s sleep or two and a good meal will help you. But weariness is more mental, more emotional. Weariness depletes you; it dissolves you. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Obedience produces vision, and vision produces provision. Often people look for provision or vision first. There is a biblical sequence where God says: First you obey Me. Then I’ll show you what you are to do. Then I’ll provide for you how you will do it. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

The gospel message and the creation message are tied together. If you violate the creation message, then you violate the gospel message. If you violate the gospel message, you violate the creation message. God is singular; He is the same. We have to link creation and redemption together. It is only then that all things make sense.  Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

How much pressure should you allow a hand to put on your bow? How much pressure are you allowing the hand of money, sex, recognition, and success to put on your bow? Those hands really do mark us. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

There aren’t many Scriptures about arrows. There are a lot more about bows. When you think of a bow, you think of an arrow. A bow and an arrow work together as one. They are two pieces that make up one instrument. When the Scripture is referring to an arrow, it just mentions the bow. A bow is just a wall ornament unless you have an arrow to go with it. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

When you design a house, you design it based on your vision and your needs. That’s how you can have 100 houses which all have the same components, but are all different. There are certain essential things that make a house—a roof, bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms, etc. Discipleship needs to have certain essential components. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

You’ll never have responsibility for what you don’t see. What we take responsibility for, God gives us authority for. Those who do not accept that responsibility and don’t get that authority will never be able to impart or delegate to the degree that God wants them to. The downriver of responsibility is creativity. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

God’s grace comes to us and sustains us when we are weak. In our weakness, we become strong. Attacks show us how weak we are and make us dependent upon Christ's strength. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Sometimes people get into deception when they over-complicate, over-analyze, over-spin, and bring things in from the outside that are not part of the equation. Be simple in your thinking. Not a simpleton. But simple. Clear. Not too complicated. Not too layered. Think clearly and in straight lines. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

We need to be familiar with the Truth. We need to be very clear on the Truth. When we are talking about things, are we edifying people or are we putting more questions in their mind, making them more unstable, more fearful? God wants the gospel to be reliable. God wants the gospel to be sound. God wants the gospel to be consistent. In order for that to happen, you and I have to be consistent with it. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.