The Five Gifts Podcast

Leadership requires us to be decisive and clear on our objectives, vision, and values. So, often as leaders we tend to focus on our own story, motivations and ambitions, but how well do you understand people? A narrow vision of life distances others and hinders relationships, but when we learn to understand people, we create trust and a positive, collaborative environment that leads to their success and the success of our team. How can we understand people, better?

Are you able to see what others cannot see? Can you help people identify their destination? Are you skilled at helping people find a pathway forward? Becoming people of influence means we must develop into better navigators. John Maxwell describes the person of influence as a “Navigator.” As leaders, we should be looking into the future for our teammates and helping them pilot problems with more awareness. As our experiences grow, we can help those predict certain outcomes for our people before they become emergencies.

Check Out the Growth Mindset Form, which is a fantastic tool to explore possible areas for personal growth as a servant-leader and begin planning a path forward. Find it HERE.

As a leader, most of the people with whom you work and serve want to get ahead. They have a growth mindset, but they are reluctant to change and that’s a limiting factor to reaching his or her real potential. THAT factor will ultimately diminish what’s possible for your church, team, and organization. How can we overcome and inspire staff and team members to reach the next level in their potential? And what’s required of you to enlarge the capacity of your organization?

Check Out the Growth Mindset Form, which is a fantastic tool to explore possible areas for personal growth as a servant-leader and begin planning a path forward. Find it HERE.

What is Spiritual Formation and why is it so important? How do we practice Spiritual Formation? What are the components of a practical, yet effective model for Spiritual Formation? We'll answer these questions and more on today's podcast episode.

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Pastor Crystal Owens, Moyock Assembly of God

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Pastor Webb Hoggard, Bethel Assembly in Askewville

One of the challenges of being an effective leader is developing the skill of listening. If you consistently listen to others, valuing them and what they have to offer, they are likely to develop strong trust and loyalty. How can we become better listening leaders, who communicate respect and increase our influence?

As a leader, your goal is NOT to get others to think more highly of you. Instead, it is your responsibility to get people to think more highly of themselves and overcome their own limiting self-perceptions that hold them back. No one rises to low expectations so how can we overcome mediocre effort and productivity? You show the people that you lead that you believe in them because if you do, they will go the extra mile to live up to your expectations. In this episode, we will discuss what it means to INFLUENCE OTHERS BY BELIEVING IN THEM.

If you look around, you will discover that there are people in your life who want to receive encouragement, recognition, security, and hope. That process is called nurturing, and it’s a need of every human being. If you desire to become an influencer in others’ lives, start by nurturing them.

What if the health of your church or your staff had less to do with organizational systems and hard work and more to do your health as a spiritual leader? We never lead anything or anyone apart from the kind of people we are at our core; our character, our INTEGRITY. What are those solid elements that build us as strong leaders made of strong integrity and wholeness? Well that’s why we’re here today. We’re going to identify those inward structures for personal integrity. And we’re going to ask the hard, provocative questions that are essential to becoming a solid leader from the inside and out.

A practical theology of "be separate from the world" has made public relations a most difficult function to embrace. For some, having a public relations system just feels secular, worldly, and self-promoting. Can one declare that public relations serves as a basic part of God's redemptive plan? Has Jesus worked on this function since the fall? Does the DNA of the church contain basic essences of public relations? Is it enough to consider it a vital system of the church? The answers revealed in the Old and New Testaments as well as church history are a resounding “YES.” God continually communicated His redemptive plan and redemptive events both to His people and to the peoples of the world throughout history. This function clarifies the reasons and the methods God uses to communicate his plan of redemption through the ages.

The Great Commission compels every follower of Christ to communicate the Gospel to people in every walk of life. This central objective includes leading others to a spiritual transformation. However, in every generation, the timeless simplicity of that command inevitably runs into many complexities ranging from spiritual warfare, cultural shifts, and changing views on religion, spirituality, faith, and the stubbornness of unbelief. Without evangelism, the local church doesn’t have much of a future. The responsibility of spiritual leadership in the local Church proves crucial to prepare, motivate, and guide believers into Jesus’ mission by sustaining a clear definition of evangelism, retooling strategies to reach lost people in appropriate and effective ways, and welcoming the empowerment of the Spirit for the task.