Leadership in Context

Your attitude determines your altitude. Complainers identify problems and conclude that progress is impossible. People with vision identify problems—and find a way forward. A mark of maturity is refusing to be a complainer.

A mark of maturity is being coachable. A coachable person invites change, is committed to a process, and allows someone they have a relationship with to coach them. What part of your game do you want to improve? How are you going about that? Who have you invited to coach you?

God desires maturity in us and is calling us to a higher place. Leadership comes with standards, and a mark of maturity is accepting and working within them.

"Most ministries grow to the size that its leadership can empower people."--Keith Tucci

Today we are pulling an episode from the archives–The Power of Delegation. The purpose of delegation is not to take something off one person’s plate and put it on another person’s plate. The purpose is having the right thing on the right person’s plate. Delegation is the heart of multiplication.

This week we are pulling an episode from the archives–Handling Leadership Privilege. How we handle trials shows who we are, but how we handle privilege shows our character even more. We should never come to a place where our privilege stops us from being a servant or being accountable. Serving God is a privilege and that means not taking advantage of every opportunity. 

Jesus said that where your treasure is, your heart is. Money is important and we should be the best money managers on earth. As parents, we need to help our kids learn how to manage and be disciplined with money, tithe and give selflessly, and use money as a visionary tool.

Everyone’s thinking about money. What if we thought about it Biblically? Jesus wove stewardship into every parable. Money isn’t just a goal—it’s a tool. A tool that God uses, along with ideas and strategies from Him, to not just to earn money, but to make an impact in people’s lives.

People are valuable. Our attitude and everything we do should reflect that. It starts at the beginning. The most telling thing that reflects our attitude about people is how we handle guest follow up. You close the back door by making the front door wide open.

Examining and understanding why someone left, whether we can do something about it or not, will help us to shut the back door. The seeds of people leaving the church are often sown when people first come through the doors. Start on the front end and create a velcro environment where people stick and feel connected.

When you have an opportunity to be used by God, is your first reaction a check of your abilities or a radical dependence on God? Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption–that is our inheritance in God. We can put our full weight in the “chair” of Christ and trust what He has put in us.