Dynamics of Spiritual Leadership

To strategically fulfil this divine kingdom agenda and mission, all aspects of human life and livelihood individual, interactive and institutional as the case may be both in the Church and the Society should fully be: In this way, souls will be regenerated toward godliness and the society will be reformed toward best practices and godly orderliness through our mature Christian Leadership and ministry, mission and witness. Leadership is more than management or supervision, it involves influencing and affecting others through visioning, strategizing, motivating, mobilising, mentoring and commissioning in order to accomplish a desired goal.

A leader must be equipped with comprehensive KNOWLEDGE and SKILL in various styles of leadership and a good perception of dynamics of the situation one is called upon to lead as well as the necessary combination of leadership dynamics relevant to the given situation.

Till today, God has raised many men and women who have positively affected our world through their effective leadership exploits in the Church and Society. It is however pertinent to notice the difference and relationship between biblical pattern for leadership and participation in the Church and biblical pattern for leadership and participation in the State. Nor should the State legislate over spiritualities or against the Church but rather seek conscience Luke 3: Christian Elders and leaders in the Church today are either ignorant of or are unconcerned about what Christian Leadership and the Kingdom Mission of the Church are fully about.

Unfortunately, things are even worse now that this has become perverted into sole-proprietor enterprise today. These should be the full leadership and missiological focus of the Church today. Christian Elders focus only on personal survivalist separatism than also on practical strategic statesmanship. They do not network and consult with team spirit and rallying point, neither do they seem to work from broad based constituency support nor develop foresighted utilitarian visions and plans. Ecclesiastical authority is meant to be occupied by qualified Church members believers only to guarantee spiritual safety of members; and 2 the pluralistic State ruled with the restraining Sword and temporal law for orderly POLITY through justice and reprimand, policy promulgation and enforcement to discipline and defend against INEQUITY, and for territorial citizenship and dominion Rom Civil authority is meant to be occupied by full citizens believers and unbelievers alike to guarantee social safety of citizens.

Christians in civil authority should distinguish these two divine ordinances Act In the pluralistic society, Christian elders and elites should not be self-centred and KITCHEN minded for only food on their tables but should be KINGDOM minded for influence beyond their territories , and therefore strategically participate and cooperate to influence their pluralistic societies as God counselled the Jews in Babylon Jer To do this requires a good grasp and effective application of strategies derived from biblical examples and spiritual wisdom learned from biblical principles.

Much more could also be learned about exerting dynamic, effective and strategic influence in a pluralistic world from the patriotic prowess of the Judges i. Generals of Israel amongst the Canaanite States, from the godly royalty of David, from the entrepreneurial and intellectual royalty of Solomon, and the transformative royalty of Josiah, the Church and State cooperation and conflicts between the Kings and Prophets of Israel, the inner caucus mentoring and sacrificial, exemplary leadership of Jesus, the teamwork, networking and transformational influence of the Apostles, as well as from Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and Paul, who used the leverage of their good offices, high-wire contact and expertise for the furtherance of the Gospel despite hostilities.

Government or public service is a divine institution under God. Christians are dispersed sojourners in our communities 1Pet 1: As individuals, Christians are physical as well as spiritual Mar As we learn the dynamics of effective leadership, it should be obvious that effective leadership should necessarily be dynamic. Effectiveness by Respect — People follow because they want to copy you, who you are and what you represent. Effectiveness by Reproduction — People follow because of your edifying impact on them, what you have done for them.

Effectiveness by Results — People follow because of your track records, what you have done for the Organization. Effectiveness by Relationships — People follow because you win them over and they want to. Effectiveness by Rights - People follow because you are the boss and they have to. Strategic planning require various keen analyses: Pastoral Leadership in the Church has taken varieties of turns. Retainership Keep them duteous and busy with responsibilities and activities. Retainership Keep them coming to get welfare benefits or miraculous blessings.

For effective task leadership dynamics, group competence requires little leadership support while group commitment requires little leadership direction: Active listening — Limited High support — High direction. Team member decides with Leader decides with input. Limited listening — Limited Limited listening —Active influencing.

In the same way people have various metaphorical perceptions about their organisations; effective leadership discovers this perception to either utilise or alter such as deemed optimal for each situation. Delegate the gifted and skilled — Set measurable timed objective — Invest in lives: Useful for accomplishing Useful for caring and coaching.

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Please try again later. Shows the leadership attributes of Paul that we can apply to our lives The back of the book claims to be use Paul as a guide to help others interested in leading. The book does nothing to promote personal leadership. However, the book is a great study on Paul. It goes over his life, works, leadership, and covers certain issues Paul addressed in his ministry. This is probably one of the best and easy to get into studies of Paul, the man, that I have ever read.

It is definitely not a "you too can help your leading style by reading this" book. There is a couple of issues Sanders seems to be hesitant in covering with the conviction he does through most of the book esp. However, Sanders seems to want to touch on it to not be charged with being scared of addressing it, but he does not lend too many pages to talking it over.

I would have liked to seen more of his argumentation; however I can see that being for another book. Again, this is a great study on the man, Paul. Pick it up for sure. This book is both a biography and a book about leadership. Following the life and principles of the apostle Paul, the author draws leadership principles that Paul espoused and modeled. Sweeping a large range of topics, Oswald Sanders highlights the qualities that made Paul the great leader he was.

The book argues that Paul had and has major influence on modern Western society, thus making him a very influential person. The book claims that Paul was a great leader because of the legacy that he left behind. Using this as a premise, the book uses Paul as a model for Christian leadership. Different than many other leadership books, this book emphasizes the importance of leadership based on the Bible. Paul had many different views about leadership that would not be accepted by many leadership experts today such as exalting in one's weakness, focusing on prayer, and having an exalted view of God.

Christians cannot separate leadership principles from their Christian faith, so the Christian leader must be humble, must love and must serve those they lead.

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The book is generally easy to read. Yet he took a different approach to his problems, trials and weaknesses, he actually delighted in his weakness. Why did he do this? He was not suggesting, as many have supposed, that lowliness alone is the essence of leadership. There are plenty of humble, meek, tenderhearted, servantminded people who are not leaders.

Introduction to Spiritual Leadership

A true leader inspires followers. To put it simply, leadership is influence. The ideal leader is someone whose life and character motivate people to follow. The best kind of leadership derives its authority first from the force of a righteous example, and not merely from the power of prestige, personality, or position.

Real leadership seeks to motivate people from the inside, by an appeal to the heart, not by external pressure and coercion. For all those reasons, leadership is not about style or technique as much as it is about character. Want proof that effective leadership is not just about style? Notice that a number of divergent leadership styles are modeled in Scripture:. Paul was a dynamic leader, even when being carried about in chains. He influenced people primarily through the force of his words. Evidently, his physical appearance was anything but powerful 2 Corinthians All were men of action, and all used their diverse gifts in markedly different ways.

Their leadership styles were varied and diverse.