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My friend Bob Weber, a fellow elder at our church Mount Paran North Church of God, who is also a world known leadership teacher for large ministries and corporations, coached me with the outline of this teaching.  He gave me the basics that he teaches.  However, I want to make it clear that not everything in this series is necessarily his opinion, as I took his outline and changed and added to it according to how I felt the Holy Spirit lead me.

I have also been greatly inspired by Dr. Kirk Walters, Administrative Pastor for Mount Paran North Church of God in Marietta, Georgia, USA.  Dr. Walters is one of my most respected leader figures.  He made a valuable contribution to this booklet.

There is a difference between management and leadership.  Not all leaders are managers, nor are all managers leaders.  Managers manage a business or ministry, they take care of making sure that all employees do their jobs and that goals are accomplished.

I personally am not a manager, but God has put me in the position of a leader.  This is evidenced by how the International School of The Bible (ISOB) is operated.  ISOB is a “grass roots” managed ministry.  The people in the field who utilize our books determine how the ministry should operate.  Often they actually teach me, their so-called leader.

Good leaders do not dominate their followers.  I believe that a good leader just follows the Lord, walks with Him, and then from time to time looks back to see who is walking with him.  Followers follow a good leader voluntarily.

 

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Leadership – The Secret

By Larry Chkoreff

Version 2.0

July 2010

published by and is a discipleship curriculum of the International School of The Bible

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Copyright © 2010 by Larry Chkoreff

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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the NKJV of the Bible.  Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, publishers.  Used by permission.

 

Leadership – The Secret

 

My friend Bob Weber, a fellow elder at our church Mount Paran North Church of God, who is also a world known leadership teacher for large ministries and corporations, coached me with the outline of this teaching.  He gave me the basics that he teaches.  However, I want to make it clear that not everything in this series is necessarily his opinion, as I took his outline and changed and added to it according to how I felt the Holy Spirit lead me.

I have also been greatly inspired by Dr. Kirk Walters, Administrative Pastor for Mount Paran North Church of God in Marietta, Georgia, USA.  Dr. Walters is one of my most respected leader figures.  He made a valuable contribution to this booklet.

There is a difference between management and leadership.  Not all leaders are managers, nor are all managers leaders.  Managers manage a business or ministry, they take care of making sure that all employees do their jobs and that goals are accomplished.

I personally am not a manager, but God has put me in the position of a leader.  This is evidenced by how the International School of The Bible (ISOB) is operated.  ISOB is a “grass roots” managed ministry.  The people in the field who utilize our books determine how the ministry should operate.  Often they actually teach me, their so-called leader.

Good leaders do not dominate their followers.  I believe that a good leader just follows the Lord, walks with Him, and then from time to time looks back to see who is walking with him.  Followers follow a good leader voluntarily.

 

The Secret

You may be surprised by what I call the secret to leadership.  It is so simple that you may find it hard to believe.

If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, then the greatest leader of all history, Jesus Christ, lives inside of you through the Holy Spirit.  He yearns to live His life through you. That is called grace.  If He lives in you, then all the potential of the greatest leader the world has ever known may be manifested through your individual personality.

Galatians 2:20 says,

20 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

There are just two things limiting this powerful leadership being manifested in and through you.

1.  Your lack of faith and belief of the fact that He lives in you and wants to live His life through you.

2.  Your lack of cooperation to allow Him to rid your life of all that is not of Him, called “the flesh.”

Taken from chapter “SIT” in the Grow or Die book.

Following are some facts in the Word that you should meditate on.  These facts are good seed, which will bear good fruit in your life.

The Holy Spirit through the Word can make who you are in Christ a reality.  You need to take the Word at face value and believe it as a legal document.

You were hopelessly lost.

You were dead in your sins.

The blood Jesus shed on the Cross removed your sins.  He took your place.

You were already “In Christ” when the following events took place.

You died with Christ.

You were buried with Christ.

You were made alive with Christ.

That is our legal standing with God today and the foundation of our legal rights.  As far as the spiritual world is concerned, your position is with Christ in the heavenlies.  You are in a seat of authority.  Satan and your mind will tell you that you are not seated with Christ in the heavenlies, but that is a lie!  You need to know that God seated you with Him while you were yet a sinner!

You are a new creation. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

You are righteous.

Satan’s dominion over you is broken.

God has created each of us with special gifts, and not every one of us is called to be what the world calls a leader.  However, I do believe that God desires to work His life through each of us as a leader in some fashion or another.  For those of you who have been put in some sort of leadership position whether in ministry, business, or as the head of a family, you have the potential to affect your realm of influence with the most powerful leadership skills known to man!  Do you believe this?

Yes____________

No ____________

Not sure, tell me more _________________

Following are 14 major attributes that in my opinion leaders must develop. I do not claim that this is an exhaustive list, but these are the issues that are the most important to me.

1. A godly leader is really a servant, or otherwise described in the Bible as a slave.

2 Corinthians 4:5-7 (Amplified Bible) says,

“For what we preach is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves [merely] as your servants (slaves) for Jesus’ sake.

For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah).

However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.”

My good friend Scott Rickles said something to me that really applies to this idea.  He said, “We must obey to go sacrifice for others.  Leave the best to give your best to those who can do nothing in return for you.”

The above Scripture says that God has shone the light into our hearts.  Jesus did that by leaving His best to give us His best, and He knew that there was no way we could repay Him for that.  However, it does infer that now as we have this light we are obliged to “beam forth” that light to others, as their servants, or their slaves.  A slave works without any expectation of return.  He/she simply does what the master says.  That is how we are to be to others.

A leader first must be a servant.

Matthew 20:20-28 says,

20 “Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.

21 And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She said to Him, “Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom.”

22 But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to Him, “We are able.”

23 So He said to them, “You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father.”

24 And when the ten heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers.

25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them.

26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.

27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave –

28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”