Leadership as Self

Leadership As SELF

How Should Leaders See Life

Leaders see life as it could be. They are always seeing a little farther, a little more than those around them.

-John Maxwell

Bron Davis Clifford

One of the greatest orators America has ever seen

Was known to religious leaders and intellectual leaders as “the greatest preacher since apostle Paul”

At age 25 he had touched more lives, influenced more leaders and set more attendance records than any clergyman his age in American history

Died in his mid thirties

Dawson Trotman

Bright, artistic, highly articulate An exhorter, always responded passionately

to a challenge and never feared making enemies

At age 27 set up The Navigators Suffered a lot of verbal attacks but carried

on Fully believed the promise in Psalm 119:165 Died at age fifty

How did They Die

Trotman drowned while attempting to save a girl’s life in New York

Left behind an organization ministering worldwide with a staff of thousands

How did They Die

Clifford was toppled from leadership by drinking and issues of financial impropriety

He was separated from his wife and children Died in a third rate motel in Texas Left behind nothing

The Need For Self Control(1Cor9:24-27)

The fundamental element of leadership is self control

Strive to maintain a firm discipline in every area of life and in every waking hour

Leadership demands a controlled lifestyle A leader must build his SELF, his

RELATION and ACTION Must have a regular program of prayer

meditation and study of the Word

SRASelf

Principles concerned with the leader’s personal efficiency and integrity

Relation Principles concerned with the leader’s

place as group coordinator and motivator

Action Principles concerned with the leader’s

role as visionary and goal-setter

Discipline (Job 36:10-12) The leader must exercise discipline in every

area Spiritual (2 Tim2:5; 1Tim4:15) Regular exercise (1 Tim 4:7-8) Scheduling & Planning Guarding thought (Prov4:23; Luke 6:45) Restraining speech (James1:26)

Disciplines stand together to give mutual protection and provide shelter under which sound leadership can be exercised

The TOP LeaderTrust

Leadership is a responsibility which you hold in trust from others and ultimately from God (1Thess2:4; 1Tim1:11)

Organize Comprehend and internalize the three

categories of the principles of leadership

Persist Hang in there. Learn from mistakes. Do

not quit (Hebrews10:35-36)

1 Peter 5:8

Leadership costs time and effort. Aim for mastery.

Never give up!2 Corinthians 4:72 Timothy 4:7-8