Leadership in Context

Our salvation is based on a relationship with Christ, and that relationship must be maintained. Do not become sluggish. Do not become dull. Do not start coasting in your faith. Be imitators. Let’s be a people who actively engages our faith in Christ. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

The ministry of the New Testament church was to plant churches and strengthen churches. Everything they did was connected to that. Jesus said, “I will build my church.” Paul said, “They were imitators of the churches.” We need apostolic congregations that are strengthening and building churches in a way that people can emulate. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

People pray for revival. People pray for a move of God. Historically, revival was very messy. Disruption is one of God’s techniques to get people’s attention. There is a philosophy in the Church today that we should go along to get along rather than being the people that stand out in the culture and speak God’s Truth in love and clarity, regardless of what might happen.Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Vision is divine revelation, divine direction. When you have vision, you have a conviction of what you must do. A mark of someone with vision is that they will do self-sacrificing things because there is a conviction to see the vision come to pass. It is not just a preferred future; it’s a necessary future. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

The word vision appears 77 times in the New American Standard version of the Bible. Each time it is mentioned, except for twice, it refers to a supernatural occurrence or is commentary on a supernatural occurrence. When the Bible is talking about vision, it is not just talking about someone having a plan or an objective; it’s talking about God super-imposing Himself in the form of vision. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Be kind to one another. Be tender-hearted. Forgive each other just as God has forgiven you. In Ephesians 5, Paul admonishes us, the Church, to act and love not as he did, but as Christ did. God trusts us to love and serve with no promise of a return on that investment. Just like Christ loves us. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Paul encourages us in 1 Corinthians 11:1 to be imitators of him, just as he is an imitator of Christ. We are not to use our liberty as a license, thus causing people to stumble. Paul explains the why of this in 1 Corinthians 10:33…so that they may be saved. This is a good reminder: We are ambassadors of Christ for the Good News. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Several times in the new Testament, the Apostle Paul admonishes us to imitate him. Today, Keith looks at the exhortation of imitation found in 1 Corinthians 4. Paul had gone through a lot, but he endured and was a good steward of the gospel message. In this passage, he is calling us to do the same. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Hardship is not when things go awry; that is suffering. Hardship is found on a path with known obstacles. When you are walking in hardship, you have chosen the path that you are walking on; you have chosen a path with known obstacles. In covenant relationships, we do as Paul was instructing Timothy to do in 2 Timothy 2:3; we suffer hardship TOGETHER. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

It is critical that we are fortified in the fundamental doctrine of Jesus Christ and Who He is. He is the Creator. He is the radiance and the exact representation of God. He is not an angel. He is better than the angels. He is fully man and fully God. That is the incarnation. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.