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INTRODUCTION:
Forbes Magazine Posted an article recently Titled: “These Three Leadership Flaws Are Killing Your Employees' Productivity”
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Have you ever wished you knew how to be a better leader?
Forbes Magazine Posted an article recently Titled: “These Three Leadership Flaws Are Killing Your Employees' Productivity”
[These Three Leadership Flaws Are Killing Your Employees' Productivity, https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/09/29/these-three-leadership-flaws-are-killing-your-employees-productivity/#41ca5e691f9b]
The 3 flaws were:
Lack of Emotional Intelligence
We all have had bosses who were cold, rude, and inconsiderate.
There personality took a relatively peaceful workplace; and put everyone on edge.
Inability to Share Credit
Many of us have questioned the point of handwork, when our boss took credit for our ingenuity and hours of dedication.
Tendencies to Micromanage
Nothing drives me nuts more than a micro-manager.
When someone is constantly second guessing you, questioning your work, and interrupting you for a status check.
It makes you want to go crazy.
Let me ask you this?
Have you had a bad leader?
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Have you ever wished you knew how to be a better leader?
Our text today, is all about leadership.
Particularly Pastoral Leadership.
Now as we consider this text, I want us to keep a few areas of application in mind.
Obviously, the most direct is the role and responsibility of Pastors.
You may have heard this topic many times, but let your eyes and mind be afresh to what the text says.
The nature of Pastoral leadership is an important topic for a church.
It is an important topic for Pastors.
And it is an important topic for Pastor’s and Churches to have a Biblical understanding.
Further, may I suggest what is good Pastoral practice is often good business practice.
We all have leadership responsibilities.
We may not always have a title and authority, but none of us truly escape leadership.
Some of us are supervisors at work.
Think of your workplace as a place to shepherd sinners who need Christ.
supervisors at work
Many of us are parents.
Parenting is really shepherding a child’s heart.
Hence the name of the book by Tedd Tripp.
So parenting in many ways is shepherding just like a Pastor shepherds.
I recognize we have a few college students this morning.
Perhaps you are sitting here and going, I am just starting out.
I am the newbie work and I have no children.
Do not fret, you also have a leadership role.
We all are called to evangelize and disciple people.
The Great commission calls the church to evangelize and disciple the World.
And each believer has a responsibility to that calling.
We all should be evangelizing and discipling someone.
And how does that happen?
We Shepherd people.
Which means each one of us are involved in shepherding.
The principles that make a Good Pastor are also what make good evangelism and discipleship.
So may this text this morning not simply be about what the Pastor can do and what the pastor cannot do,
but about how all of us can be better leaders inside and outside the church, with a title or without a title.
1 Peter 5:
Which means, so far as our leadership is Biblically Based,
As I have already suggested, we are all are leaders and shepherds.
Have you had a bad leader
Have you ever wished you knew how to be a better leader
We all lead in different ways.
Supervisors
Parents
Yet, even besides that.
We all should be evangelizing and disciplings as others.
In a senses, that also is leadership.
And from this text,
PROPOSITION: We ought to lead in a God-pleasing way.
TRANSITIONAL STATEMENT: And Peter gives us 3 Principles for how to Lead in a God-Pleasing Way.
The first principle of God-pleasing leadership is:
1. Remembering Our Commonality.
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1. Remembering Our Commonality.
Peter, an Apostle, encourages elders by remembering what they had in common.
What could an elder possibly have in common with an Apostle?
(a) They are all elders.
The first commonality is they (a) are all elders, the Spiritually mature men of the church.
Though I am sure that was encouraging, what I find most interesting are the second two ways they are equal.
It is interesting because we all have this in common.
(a) Are all elders
Though I am sure that was encouraging, what I find most interesting are the second two ways they are equal.
It is interesting because we all have this in common.
Though I am sure that was encouraging, what I find most interesting are the second two ways they are equal.
It is interesting because we all have this in common.
(b) We are all Witness’s of the Suffering of Christ.
The second commonality is that they are all fellow (b) witness’s of the suffering of Christ.
The most preimment doctrinal truth of the church is that Christ died for our sins.
His suffering on the cross redeemed us from slavery in sin to a new life empowered by God.
Thus, upon belief in the Gospel we become co-witnesses of the Good News - the Suffering of Christ.
With that in common - are any of us really better than the other -
OR are we all sinners saved by the Grace of God.
(c) We all will be glorified.
The Third commonality is that we all will be glorified.
There are perhaps many riches of Christ that we will share in.
But nothing so important, so needed, and so amazing than how God in a twinkling of an eye will transform us into sin-cleansed, disease-cured people.
We will be restored to the way humanity was before the sin of Adam and Eve.
Again, with that in common - are any of us really better than the other
OR are we all sinners glorified by Grace.
The First principle of God-pleasing leadership is that I am no better than anybody else.
When we consider that we are all equally needing and equally blessed in Christ; than how can we logically or morally justify attitudes of haughtiness, arrogance, and superiority.
May I say,
Whether we are an apostle, an elder, or the flock - we are all equal in Christ.
No leadership position is there because of superiority, but by God’s will through God’s Grace.
As I shepherd and as you shepherd the flock God has given you; may we remember our commonality in the Gospel.
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