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Matthew 8:8-13
• Only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.
• For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me.
And I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,'
and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
• When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who
followed, "Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great
faith, not even in Israel!
• And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit
down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
• But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
• Then Jesus said to the centurion , "Go your way; and as you have
believed, so let it be done for you." And his servant was healed
that same hour.
The Centurion
• Not a religious man or Pharisee;
but a man who sought Jesus.
• Respectful regard for Jesus;
and loving regard for his servant.
• A man of position and stature;
and a man of humility
• A man under authority;
and a man with authority
• A man who was a Gentile;
and a model for Israel
• A leader with legal rights & privilege
who chose to be under grace
and his servant was healed !
He understood authority from over and under;
and the power of faith in Jesus and His
authoritative Word, and results happened!
Leadership is influence nothing more, nothing less.
John Maxwell
Leadership is influence,
the ability of one person to influence others
Oswald Sanders
Spiritual Leadership
The central task of leadership is influencing
God’s people toward God’s purposes.
Robert Clinton
The Making of a Leader
Spiritual leadership is
moving people on to God’s agenda.
Henry & Richard Blackaby
Spiritual Leadership
L ORD
E M P OW E R M E N T
A LIGNMENT
D IRECTIONAL
E FFECTUAL
R ELATIONAL
S E R V A NT H O O D
Leadership is a Relationship
as a husband is to a wife
as a parent is to a child
as a friend is to a friend
as an employer is to an employee
a leader is to a follower
Origins of Leadership – Jethro/Moses
Exodus 18:17-23
• The thing that you do is not good.
• Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For
this thing is too much for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself.
• Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: Stand
before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God.
• And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in
which they must walk and the work they must do.
• Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of
truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands,
rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter
they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it
will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.
• If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure,
and all this people will also go to their place in peace.
Origins of Leadership – God/man
Genesis 1:26-28
• Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according
to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over
all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth."
• So God created man in His own image; in the image of God
He created him; male and female He created them.
• Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful
and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion
over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
every living thing that moves on the earth.
Origins of Leadership – Jesus/Church
Ephesians 5:22-26;32
• Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
• For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is
head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
• Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let
the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the
church and gave Himself for her.
• This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ
and the church.
But I’m Not A Leader ! ? !
Employment
Entrepreneur
Volunteer
Church
School
Family
Self/Personal
But I’m Not A Leader ! ? !
Employment
Entrepreneur
Volunteer
Church
School
Family
Self/Personal
Personal (Self) Leadership
1 Timothy 3:1-5
• This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of
a bishop, he desires a good work.
• A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one
wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior,
hospitable, able to teach;
• not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
• one who rules his own house well, having his children
in submission with all reverence
• or if a man does not know how to rule his own house,
how will he take care of the church of God?
Personal (Self) Leadership
Psalms 42:5
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
Why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God,
for I shall yet praise Him.
Personal (Self) Leadership
1 Corinthians 9:27
I discipline my body
and bring it into subjection
Personal (Self) Leadership
Romans 6:12-14
• Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body,
that you should obey it in its lusts.
• And do not present your members as instruments of
unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to
God as being alive from the dead and your members
as instruments of righteousness to God.
• For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you
are not under law but under grace .
Matthew 15:14
Jesus calls religious leaders…
“blind leaders of the blind.”
“And if the blind leads the blind,
both will fall into a ditch.”
The Leadership Equation
GOD (LEADER)
Follower/Leader
Follower(s)/Leader(s)