THE PRICE OF LEADERSHIP

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THE PRICE OF LEADERSHIP

• Arena University
• June 3, 2006

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Quote

• When a persons development as a leader is
  finished, that leader is finished. - F. A.
  Filene

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Quotes

• We search for special individuals with leadership
  potential, rather than developing the leadership
  potential in everyone. 
• Leadership is about creating new realities.
• Leadership is about learning how
• to shape the future.
•  Nothing will change in the future without
  fundamentally new ways of thinking. This is the
  real work of leadership. Peter Senge

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I. Thoughts on Leadership

• A leader serves.

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A. Luke 2224-27

• Also a dispute arose among them as to which of
  them was considered to be greatest. Jesus said
  to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over
  them and those who exercise authority over them
  call themselves Benefactors.

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A. Luke 2224-27

• But you are not to be like that. Instead, the
  greatest among you should be like the youngest,
  and the one who rules like the one who serves.
  For who is greater, the one who is at the table
  or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is
  at the table? But I am among you as one who
  serves.

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I. Thoughts on Leadership

• A leader serves.
• A leader influences.

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B. Philemon 8-14

• Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and
  order you to do what you ought to do, yet I
  appeal to you on the basis of love. I then, as
  Paul an old man and now also a prisoner of
  Christ Jesus I appeal to you for my son
  Onesimus, who became my son while I was in
  chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now
  he has become useful both to you and to me.

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B. Philemon 8-14

• I am sending him who is my very heart back to
  you. I would have liked to keep him with me so
  that he could take your place in helping me while
  I am in chains for the gospel. But I did not want
  to do anything without your consent, so that any
  favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced.

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I. Thoughts on Leadership

1. A leader serves.
2. A leader influences.
3. A leader leads others.

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C. Matthew 2145-46

• When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard
  Jesus' parables, they knew he was talking about
  them. They looked for a way to arrest him, but
  they were afraid of the crowd because the people
  held that he was a prophet.

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I. Thoughts on Leadership

1. A leader serves.
2. A leader influences.
3. A leader leads others.
4. A leader develops other leaders.

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D. Acts 1125-26

• Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,
  and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.
  So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with
  the church and taught great numbers of people.
  The disciples were called Christians first at
  Antioch.

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D. Acts 161-5

• He came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a
  disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was a
  Jewess and a believer, but whose father was a
  Greek. The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke
  well of him. Paul wanted to take him along on the
  journey,

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D. Acts 161-5

• so he circumcised him because of the Jews who
  lived in that area, for they all knew that his
  father was a Greek. As they traveled from town to
  town, they delivered the decisions reached by the
  apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people
  to obey. So the churches were strengthened in the
  faith and grew daily in numbers.

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II. Service - David

1. He learned to serve.
2. He learned to respect authority.
3. He learned to wait.

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III. New ways to do church

• Raise up an army of purpose-driven youth.
• Equip youth to do missions and start businesses.
• Holy Spirit chaos.

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III. New ways to do church

• Attitudes of ownership to attitudes of
  servant-leadership.
• Activities that young people want to attend.
• Innovative initiatives.
• The poor, ethnic minorities and women.

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IV. What does this mean for you?

• You are both leaders and followers.
• You will equip young people by
• Knowing them.
• Listening to them.
• Serving them