Stratagies for Christian Influence

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10 Strategies for Christian Influence/Leadership

• How to increase flavor and shine brighter,
• 6, Humility

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There Are Differences

• Jews looking down on Gentiles
• And on those dogs, the Samaritans
• Pharisees looking down on sinners

• The compassion of Jesus, who dealt with all of
  the other groups.

versus
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There Are Differences

• A culture as a FAMILY nation
• With a lineage
• Everyone connected by blood, kinship

• A culture of capitalism
• Families separated easily
• Profiteers

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Leadership comparative to that of a loving
Grandfather versus a Boss
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How Can We Grow in Humility?

1. Defeat the attitude of pride and superiority

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1.  a sense of shame

What tears down superiority?
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Romans 323 10-12

• for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God,
• None is righteous, no, not one 11 no one
  understands no one seeks for God. 12 All have
  turned aside together they have become
  worthless no one does good, not even one.

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What tears down superiority?

1.  A sense of shame
2. A sense of fallibility

3. A sense of dependence
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John 155

• I am the vine you are the branches. Whoever
  abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears
  much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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How Can We Grow in Humility?

1. Defeat the attitude of pride and superiority
2. Put down the Elijah Complex

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1 Corinthians 82

• 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he
  does not yet know as he ought to know.

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How to fight the complex

1. God doesnt confide in us
2. Others have talents different from mine

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1 Corinthians 1013

• 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not
  common to man. God is faithful, and he will not
  let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with
  the temptation he will also provide the way of
  escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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How to fight the complex

1. God doesnt confide in us
2. Others have talents different from mine

3. My frustration is not new
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How to fight the complex

1. God doesnt confide in us
2. Others have talents different from mine

3. My frustration is not new
4. Even if I AM the only one, it is all right!
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Matthew 2028

• 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served
  but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom
  for many.

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Luke 2225-26

• 25 And he said to them, The kings of the
  Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those
  in authority over them are called benefactors.
  26 But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest
  among you become as the youngest, and the leader
  as one who serves.

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How Can We Grow in Humility?

1. Defeat the attitude of pride and superiority
2. Put down the Elijah Complex
3. Encourage mutual respect and courtesy

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Leadership demonstrates Humility by

1. Withholding authority

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Matthew 234

• 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and
  lay them on people's shoulders, but they
  themselves are not willing to move them with
  their finger.

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2 Corinthians 1310

• 10 For this reason I write these things while I
  am away from you, that when I come I may not have
  to be severe in my use of the authority that the
  Lord has given me for building up and not for
  tearing down.

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Leadership demonstrates Humility by

1. Withholding authority
2. Really listening

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Proverbs 1813

• 13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is
  his folly and shame.

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1 Corinthians 134-5

• 4 Love is patient and kind love does not envy or
  boast it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not
  insist on its own way it is not irritable or
  resentful

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Leadership demonstrates Humility by

1. Withholding authority
2. Really listening
3. Give value to others

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Philippians 23

• Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in
  humility count others more significant than
  yourselves.

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Philippians 13-5, 7

• I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
  4 always in every prayer of mine for you all
  making my prayer with joy, 5 because of your
  partnership in the gospel from the first day
  until now.
• It is right for me to feel this way about you
  all, because I hold you in my heart,

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Ephesians 115-16

• 15 For this reason, because I have heard of your
  faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all
  the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for
  you, remembering you in my prayers,

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Colossians 13-4

• 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we
  heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the
  love that you have for all the saints,

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1 Thessalonians 12-3, 6-8

• We give thanks to God always for all of you,
  constantly mentioning you in our prayers,
  3 remembering before our God and Father your work
  of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of
  hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• And you became imitators of us and
  of the Lord, for you received the word in much
  affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so
  that you became an example to all the believers
  in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For not only has
  the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in
  Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has
  gone forth everywhere

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Leadership demonstrates Humility by

1. Withholding authority
2. Really listening
3. Giving value to others
4. Being able to apologize

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Matthew 523-24

• 23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar
  and there remember that your brother has
  something against you, 24 leave your gift there
  before the altar and go. First be reconciled to
  your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

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Leadership demonstrates Humility by

1. Withholding authority
2. Really listening
3. Giving value to others
4. Being able to apologize

• Speaks to sincerity
• Speaks to concern
• Speaks to humility

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• Proverbs 1812
• Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but
  humility comes before honor.
• 1 Peter 55
• Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the
  elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with
  humility toward one another, for God opposes the
  proud but gives grace to the humble.

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Christian Leadership Works in Humility

• Defeating pride and superiority
• Putting down the Elijah Complex
• Encouraging mutual respect courtesy

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Proverbs 224
Before growing as a Christian, we must BE one.

• The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is
  riches and honor and life.