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Effective Christian Leadership for Today: Key Aspects, Stages & More

It’s hard to think of a more important topic for the church today than leadership. Doctrine matters. Cultural exegesis matters. Scriptural fidelity matters. But without Scripture-soaked, servant-minded leaders at every level of the church, God’s people struggle. Ed Stetzer writes,

Yet the need for godly leadership isn’t an invention of the modern world. A lack of leadership—whether because of ineptitude or absence—is often coupled with Israel’s straying from her God-given mission. The clearest example of this is in Judges when the Bible says, “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever seemed right to him” (21:25 CSB). Without godly leadership, God’s people tend to ignore God’s ways.

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What Christian leadership is—and what it isn’t

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What is Christian leadership?

A. D. Clarke writes in his article on leadership in the  New Dictionary of Biblical Theology  that all leadership is “framed within the overarching context of divine sovereignty.” Christian leadership—whether within the church, business, government, or the home—gets its foundation from the authority God himself has. Whether Christian or secular, all leaders are stewards of the authority given to them by God. Peter Drucker aptly says about leadership, “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.” But Christian leadership has a higher purpose in mind. Christian leaders aren’t simply moving people toward morally and spiritually ambiguous goals. Christian leaders seek to serve others and marshal them toward a goal ordained by God. Pastors, authors, and academics have been defining Christian leadership for decades. Understanding its importance in the life of the church and toward the completion of the mission of God in the world, church leaders have tried to describe it in helpful ways. Robert Clinton , longtime professor of leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary, offers a noteworthy definition of leadership: “Leadership is a dynamic process in which a man or woman with God-given capacity influences a specific group of God’s people toward his purposes for the group.” Ed Stetzer offers one of the best recent definitions of Christian leadership : “Christian leadership is a process of influencing a community to use their God-given gifts toward a goal and purpose as led by the Holy Spirit.”

At the heart of any differentiation of Christian leadership and secular leadership is the idea of purpose. Christian leaders move people toward a Christ-honoring goal. That’s why Ken Blanchard, the best-selling author of  Lead Like Jesus , explains that Christian leadership aims at the heart of the leader first: “Every tactical problem, whether at home or in the workplace, can be traced to heart issues within the leader: weak character, fear, pride, not being able to distinguish right from wrong, or misplaced priorities.” He adds, “The heart of a leader must be transformed before any other lasting personal and organizational change can take place.” 2 The heart of Christian leadership is the heart of the Christian leader.

What Christian leadership isn’t

The concept of Christian leadership alludes to something deeper than simply a leader who happens to be a Christian. It encompasses the timeless Christian ideals of service, stewardship, shepherding, and humility. The 12 apostles—people who were called to lead God’s people after Jesus’ resurrection—exemplified both healthy and unhealthy leadership. Mark 9:33–37 recounts a time when these same apostles were arguing over who was the greatest. Jesus reminded these growing leaders that “if anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all” (v. 35). Jesus modeled this for his disciples throughout his earthly ministry by feeding people, washing feet, and teaching all who would listen to see their lives in the light of God’s kingdom. Leadership, then, isn’t about hierarchy, power, or status. It’s ultimately about serving God and his people by using God-given gifts of leadership to bring the kind of focus and mission-mindedness needed to work together toward a Christ-honoring goal.

Because Christian leadership is intrinsically connected to the heart of the leader, the leader’s heart is the single most important part of Christian leadership. Christian leaders mobilize others not out of what they know but who they are in Christ.There’s good news and bad news when it comes to developing a leader’s character. We can grow character. In fact, the Bible describes character development as a key ingredient to Christian discipleship.But the bad news is that affliction is a core ingredient to God’s training room for character. You can’t learn character from a textbook. You have to learn it from hardship. Paul writes, “And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope” (Romans 5:3–4 CSB). In fact, writing in the  International Standard Bible Encyclopedia , G. E. Montgomery describes character as the “successful endurance of testing.”What does Christian character look like? Paul gives us possibly the best description in Galatians 5:22–23 with these characteristics, typically referred to as the fruit of the Spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” When these characteristics permeate a Christian leader’s life, as they are tested, the leader has the moral force necessary to mobilize others to engage in God’s mission.

A leader’s convictions are the truths they believe about God, themselves, and the surrounding world that lay a foundation for leadership. In his book  The Conviction to Lead , Albert Mohler writes: “The leadership that really matters is all about conviction. The leader is rightly concerned with everything from strategy and vision to team-building, motivation, and delegation, but at the center of the true leader’s heart and mind, you will find convictions that drive and determine everything else.”Those convictions begin with the  classic Christian creeds of the church  and their descriptions about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, sin, salvation, etc. What a leader believes about these biblical truths becomes foundational for how they act—and how they mobilize others to act. These convictions are vital because a leader will pass them on to others through discipleship. A leader who hasn’t properly done the work on their own convictions can’t faithfully teach them to others.A leader must have convictions about the major doctrines of the Bible, but they must also develop deep, actionable beliefs about ministry philosophies, ministry direction, and social action. A church’s actions ought to be directed by a leader who is humble and confident about the direction God is moving them toward. This isn’t only a theological necessity but a pragmatic requirement. Without deeply held convictions, leaders will always struggle to build teams and alignment. People respond to authentic leaders who lead out of deeply held beliefs.None of this means that a leader’s convictions won’t change. In fact, healthy leaders routinely revisit convictions to ensure they correspond to the teachings of the Bible and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. The ability to continue learning and growing is a hallmark of healthy, God-honoring leadership throughout Scripture and Church history.

Of all the characteristics of godly leadership, calling is often the most difficult to clearly articulate. The concept has its root in both the Old and New Testaments. In  Eerdmans Bible Dictionary , A. C. Myers describes calling as: “A term designating God’s summons to a specific task or role and his special relationship to his people.” Although every believer has a general call to salvation, God calls each Christian to specific tasks in his kingdom work.God’s call is a holy summons to participate in his mission in the world. Just as every part of the human body is necessary, the Church needs every Christian to know and live out their calling (1 Cor 12:12–31). For some, that might be a call to pastoral ministry, but for others, it might be to serve as a Christian witness in the marketplace or in the classroom as a teacher. All are equally important to the mission of God.Understanding God’s call—and when God is calling them in a new direction—is an important part of any leader’s journey. Wrestling with the mystery of that call helps to prepare a leader for a lifetime of service. It’s the first step of faith in a lifetime of equally difficult and often equally unclear steps.

Leaders also have certain skills to develop. Every leadership role—whether it’s in formal ministry or the marketplace—has various competencies attached to it. For example, pastors in most ministry contexts preach, counsel, shepherd, teach, lead teams, etc. Pastors will become more effective in discipling and leading others as they grow in each of these competencies.All Christian leaders have a different set of competencies that are important in their context. While counseling may be a significant part of some pastoral roles, it may be less important in other contexts. Leaders in a church’s children’s ministry may need to become effective in classroom management or volunteer development. A church’s senior adult ministry leader may need to be strong in grief counseling.There is no set list of competencies for ministry. Most theological schools and training organizations have lists of competencies they hope to develop in leaders they serve. For example, Beeson Divinity School divides ministry competencies into five broad categories:

• Pastoral care
• Personal and spiritual issues
• Proclamation
• Relational skills

Acts 29 has 11 such categories for its church planters:

• Spiritual vitality
• Theological clarity
• Convictions and commendations
• Relationships
• Missional lifestyle
• Disciple-making
• Ability to teach
• Entrepreneurial aptitude

While it’s important that leaders develop a variety of skills, the Bible ultimately declares that the Holy Spirit provides competency for Christian ministry. Competency can become a crutch that can separate a leader from the necessity of God’s power.Paul writes, “Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts” (2 Cor 3:1–3).

Stages of Christian leadership

Below we’ll work our way through the four stages of Christian leadership: discernment, growth, maturity, and multiplication. Don’t think of the stages of leadership development as linear. While these stages tend to intersect with certain life stages, leaders experience aspects of these stages throughout their lives.

Discernment

The discernment period is most prominent in the early years of ministry and during transitional periods. It’s the time when leaders wrestle with God about their calling. Sometimes they try different roles as they sense a specific ministry fit. It’s usually a time of great excitement and energy—of both highs and lows. But leaders never reach a stage where they don’t need to discern God’s will in ministry. They will wrestle with God’s direction their entire lives. Even if they’ve settled into a specific lay or professional ministry role, leaders will continue to search out new ministry contexts and new visions of future work. The process of ministry discernment is an ongoing part of life. It’s important during the discernment period for leaders to find godly counsel that will help them seek God’s will and learn from others who have served in a similar role.

Again, church leaders should never have a period in their ministry where they are not developing their character and skills. In the development period, leaders take stock of the training and experiences they need to fully embrace God’s call on their lives. In a sense,  leadership development  is simply another step in the discipleship process. For some leadership roles, this development occurs most effectively informally—through mentoring and lay training experiences. This informal process is often done within a church community, particularly when a leader is preparing for a lay ministry role. A seminary or a Bible college can also be a part of the development pathway for Christian leaders. Most seminaries are designed to prepare leaders for professional ministry roles (such as pastors, missionaries, and church administrators) who need a more specialized training regiment. Some seminaries also offer training in Christian leadership or marketplace theology that’s designed to equip men and women who don’t work full-time in ministry. With the advent of the internet age, leaders have access to Christian higher education without leaving their current ministry contexts. Highly informative, actionable theological education, such as  Logos Mobile Education , is available anywhere on the planet and on nearly any topic. This specific development stage, characterized by learning and growth, extends long after any period of formal or informal training. Leaders must often serve selflessly for years before reaching the next stage of development (maturity). These years are typically full of frequent rotating periods of failure, learning, and growth as leaders learn from their mistakes and build upon struggles to set the foundation for future ministry fruitfulness.

As leaders mature, their ministry grows in effectiveness. This tends to happen as ministry discernment, development, experience, and humility come together in specific contexts that fit leaders’ unique backgrounds. While leaders in this stage continue to discern God’s call on their lives and develop their doctrinal convictions and ministry competencies, the maturity stage is marked by leaders’ focus on the work of ministry. While fruitfulness will look different in every context, it’s this period when you usually see it most clearly in the life of a leader. One common characteristic of this period is that leaders increasingly have the opportunity to focus on areas of giftedness. Leaders who are particularly gifted in shepherding spend more of their time in this area. Leaders who are strong teachers spend more time teaching. While the fruitfulness of this period relates to skill growth, it’s the leader’s increasing clarity of their calling that has the biggest impact upon ministry growth.

Multiplication

Discipling other leaders is always a critical part of a leader’s job—particularly a Christian leader’s job. Even young and inexperienced leaders can step out of their comfort zone to disciple less experienced leaders. Yet a leader who has experienced ministry maturation by discovering their unique fit and context has a special opportunity to pour into the lives of other leaders. As this happens, leaders multiply. Mature leaders don’t  multiply themselves  accidentally. It happens because they intentionally make mentoring a priority.

Leaders need mentors, and they need to be mentors. Both aspects of mentoring play a key part in leadership development. Leaders need to be led by people who are a bit further in their journey who can help them prioritize spiritual disciplines, serve their families, shepherd their churches, and engage their communities with the good news about Jesus. They also need to regularly practice the habit of discipling and training others. While academic training for some kinds of ministry can be critical, it can’t replace life-on-life relationships.

Mentoring is a type of leadership development with no cap on its potential. A leader doesn’t need access to higher education or to be literate to connect with a mentor and, in turn, mentor someone else.

Ministry fit

To develop Christian leaders, churches need a system for helping people discover the right ministry fit. Churches and Christian leaders do this in several ways.

Trial-and-error:  Aspiring leaders can serve in capacities that seem to line up with their gifts, but they can do so without a long-term commitment. If the ministry doesn’t fit, they can simply move on to one that does. This process can be effective for most roles. Even aspiring pastors can serve in short-term roles to get a firsthand idea whether that ministry role is a strong fit.

Assessments:  Many churches use gift assessments—either self-assessments or ones administered by the church—to help in this process. Typically, these assessments include a series of multiple-choice questions around personality and interests. The tabulated scores provide aspiring leaders with a list of the top spiritual gifts the person demonstrates a proclivity toward.

Interviews:  Some churches enlist interviewers to talk through a person’s experiences, skills, and gifting and serve as a guide in discovering a ministry fit. These interviewers can be staff members or even the pastor in smaller ministry contexts. They can also be lay people. They simply need to understand how to ask a series of open-ended questions and have a broad understanding of how to connect people to ministry opportunities within the church.

Lifelong learning

Leaders never reach a point where they don’t need to learn. Because leaders often serve in the church for decades, it’s critical they have an opportunity to sharpen their skills and apply those skills in ever-changing ministry contexts. For example, a volunteer who began leading youth in a local church in the early 1990s is now serving in a context that is vastly different three decades later.

Whether a person serves as a lead pastor, a children’s ministry worker, or some other role in the church, constant access to learning will help to ensure a leader not only faithfully fulfills their calling today but can also effectively disciple others.

Churches can enlist everything from regular, on-the job-training to  on-demand classes  and even in-person observation in other churches to help with this.

Biblical community

Ministry is never a solo effort. It’s always most effectively done in a community of leaders who are seeking after God’s best together. Leaders need community to provide support through the inevitable ups and downs of leadership. They need prayer support, mentoring, and the opportunities to serve that come within biblical community.

The time for leadership is (always) now

From the time of Jesus’ first followers to the days following Pentecost to the Reformation and beyond, God has worked through people to fulfill his mission in the world. Leaders have been at the heart of that movement. As committed Christian leaders have mobilized the Church toward the Great Commission, God has worked through his people. But today, as the Church faces a growing number of challenges, leaders are more important than ever. The Church’s ability to develop and deploy leaders who create new leaders will be one of its great tests in the twenty-first century. The world has leaders. Every segment of society has people that will fill a leadership vacuum if necessary. But there’s leadership—and there’s Christian leadership. The Church’s current moment desperately needs leaders committed to doing God’s work in God’s way with God’s people. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John Maxwell

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Tobin Perry

Tobin Perry has spent over 20 years as a writer and editor for faith-based audiences. He has written for Christianity Today, Baptist Press, Saddleback Church, the North American Mission Board, and more. He has also served as a lead pastor of a small church in Southern Indiana and a church planting intern in Seattle, Washington. Tobin has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Divinity degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (now Gateway Seminary). He lives in Evansville, Indiana with his wife and three children.

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WHO WANTS TO BE FIRST?

In first century Palestine, authority and power were at a premium.

The Romans ruled with pomp and authority. To see the centurions and their soldiers marching through the streets of Jerusalem or Capernaum, ready to enforce their will must have been an awesome sight. With authority came influence, prestige and position. By way of contrast, servants were on the opposite end of the social order. They were there for the benefit of others. On our own, who wouldn’t rather be a ruler than a servant?

Several times in the gospels, Jesus spoke of a different kind of leadership, usually ending with a poignant summary – “...if anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last and the servant of all” (Mark 9:34).

To Jesus, greatness and power were not measured by the number of people serving a leader but the extent that the leader was serving the people under him or her. Oswald Sanders summed up this thought by writing, “True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one’s service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them” (Spiritual Leadership, Moody Press, 1980) John Stott has written, ”Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.”

What servant-leadership is not:

• It is not a refuge for those without the willingness, ability or courage to lead
• It is not an excuse for failing to give direction and to be accountable
• It is not passive
• It is not necessarily keeping everyone happy
• It is not just doing what followers want to do

WHAT IS SERVANT-LEADERSHIP?

There are two components of servant-leadership. The first is that of being a servant. The second is being a leader. “Servant” defines the timeless, changeless style and attitude that must be present in our lives. “Leadership” defines the responsibility. As believers we are all called to be servants. When we assume the responsibility of motivating people to bring about purposeful change we must do so as servant-leaders. Servant-leaders who serve but do not lead may be wonderful servants but they are not servant-leaders. We are called to “lead with diligence” (Romans 12:8). Leighton Ford wrote in Transforming Leadership (IVP, 19991), ”The one who rules should be like the one who serves (Luke 22:26). He did not say the one who gives up ruling should be that way but the one who rules.” If God has asked you to lead, then you are responsible and accountable to lead. Leadership is not evil! Lack of leadership is chaos. The lack of leadership produces followers who are “harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd” (Matthew 9:36). In God’s kingdom, leaders serve us best by leading us and lead best by serving us.

LEADERSHIP REVIEW

Good leadership does at least two things. First it accomplishes worthwhile goals. Secondly, good leadership develops and transforms those who are being lead. People are really better people and better off because they have served with that leader. They are more competent, confident and equipped. Leadership is needed to transform vision into reality.

There are three basic methods of leadership – autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire. Servant-leadership is not a different category of leadership but the style and attitude that pervades every method of Christian leadership. At times leaders can best serve their followers by leading autocratically (as when Jesus told his disciples what to take, do and say on their first missionary venture – Matthew 10:5-16). At times the servant-leader leads democratically (as when Jesus solicited the input of the disciples in the feeding of the 5,000 – John 6:5). At still other times Jesus led best by allowing the disciples to figure things out on their own (“Go make disciples of all nations...” Matthew 28:18-20). In each situation Jesus’ method varied but his style and attitude never changed. Whatever he did, he did as a servant leader.

ATTITUDE OF SERVANT-LEADERSHIP

The essence, style and attitude of servant leadership is found in Philippians 2:3-5. “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in the very nature God, ...made himself nothing , taking the very nature of a servant.” Regardless of the mode of leading (autocratic, democratic or lassiz-faire), the focus of servant leadership is on the growth, success and welfare of the followers. The primary focus of a servant-leader is on his or her followers rather than on self. It is this singular characteristic which defines servant-leadership.

Whatever the “service,” the servant-leader looks not only at his own interests but to the interests of those he or she is leading and serving. Interests and needs are not necessarily pandering to the whims or pampering whiny followers. The servant-leader Jesus served best at times by saying “no” to some who wanted to follow him (as with the Geresene demoniac), denied the requests of others (James and John in Mark 10:36-40) and even “fired” some who weren’t going where he was going (John 6:66, Luke 14:25-35). We must allow Jesus to define servant leadership. Everything he did was done in the style and attitude of being a servant-leader. This includes washing the disciple’s feet but goes way beyond that. He always acted on behalf of and for the good of those he served. Oswald Sanders wrote, “The true leader regards the welfare of others rather than his own comfort and prestige as of primary concern.”

Attitude is everything. If servanthood is merely a technique to advance yourself, you will fail. It’s like trying to fake authenticity. Although many Christian leaders like to be seen as servant-leaders, few want to be treated as servants. For this reason, servanthood must come from the heart. We are called to lead in different arenas – in our homes, on our jobs and in our ministries. If servant-leadership is genuine, there will be a seamless garment of servant leadership in every arena where leading and serving are required. Would your wife and children tag you as a servant-leader?

In Christian service and ministry the only acceptable style and attitude of leadership is that of servant-leadership. A style which is not like Jesus Christ cannot be called “Christian.” There is no room for king-leadership, selfish-leadership, ruler-leadership and self-serving leadership. We never move on from servant-leadership to some other style of leadership. Position does not ever give us the right to lord over anyone...ever.

AN EXAMPLE OF SERVANT-LEADERSHIP

Beginning in Acts 6 we see how servant-leadership was expressed in the early church. When conflict arose between the Grecian and Hellenistic Jews over food service, the Twelve understood their priorities as servant-leaders. “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.” It is not that they were too important to wait tables but to do so they would be poor stewards of what God and the followers had asked them to do. These men served best by leading. They lead best by serving and ministering the Word of God and praying (6:4). Servant-leadership cannot be separated from good stewardship. The first “deacons” (literally “servants”) were selected to take care of the task of waiting tables.

Now, for the rest of the story. One of these men, Stephen, had exceptionally high qualifications. Yet he faithfully waited tables as a servant. Because he was faithful in this little thing, God gave him the opportunity to serve again by preaching the gospel before the Sanhedrin, who eventually stoned him. His job description changed but his attitude of serving did not change. If you cannot or will not serve, then as a Christian, you are not qualified to lead.

TESTS OF SERVANT-LEADERS

• Would subordinates again hire you to lead them? Would your staff and students say, “We want you to serve us best by leading us”?
• Do those under you feel valued and esteemed? Are their contributions recognized and appreciated?
• Are you using people to accomplish your goals or working together to accomplish God’s goals?
• Are you serving your followers or trying to impress your superiors or protect your position?
• Are you willing to do whatever needs to be done regardless of your position or platform?
• Are more followers becoming servant-leaders as a result of your servant-leadership? Are you developing those under you?
• Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Growing? Are you building leaders or followers? Who could replace you tomorrow?
• Are you and your followers accomplishing organizational goals?
• Are you sharing the credit and regularly saying “thanks”?
• “Here are the questions he (Jesus) gives to measure our greatness. Not ‘How many people help me?’ but ‘How deep is my commitment to others?’ Not whom do I let into the circle of influence?’ but ‘How long and broad is my circle of fellowship? Not ‘How can I best develop myself ?’ but ‘How intense is my passion to be pure and useful?’” (Leighton Ford in Transforming Leadership , IVP, 1991).

Leadership has to do with purpose and direction. Everything Jesus did from his baptism to the cross was laden with purpose. In being a servant-leader, his vision was clear. As a servant-leader he said to his potential followers “I know where I’m going. I want you to go with me and I’ll serve you by giving you what you need along the way.” As a servant-leader he understood each disciple’s giftedness, gave them work in line with their giftedness, held them accountable and helped them with their weaknesses. He took time to explain, time and again, where he was going.  

To Jesus, servant-leadership was not a program but a response. Yes, he washed the disciple’s feet one time in response to a real need but his primary duty was not foot washing. There was no task that he was too good for or too important to perform. Jesus also involved his disciples in the learning process. He helped them be more effective and get better at what they did. The disciples who could not cast out demons in Matthew 17:14-22 were pretty good at it in the book of Acts (5:12-15). He equipped his disciples to solve problems and make decisions in view of the stated mission. He was free to give the ministry away. The real test of his leadership was how well the disciples performed after his departure. It worked!

OBSERVATIONS FROM JOHN 13

Verse 1 “Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.” You can serve people without loving them but you cannot love people without serving them.

Verse 3 “Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;” Jesus really understood his identity. Jesus understood that all things had been given to him by the father. There was nothing people could give him that the Father had not already given him. Many leaders are too insecure to serve because they feel they will lose the esteem of those they serve. The Lord knew where he had come from and where he was going.

Verses 12-17 Jesus ends this episode by explaining what he did, “Do you understand what I have done for you? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.” Jesus’ servant leadership did not reduce him to a door mat. His service was with purpose. He was training, modeling and multiplying servant-leaders.

QUESTIONS SERVANT-LEADERS ASK

(by Ken Blanchard)

• How’s it going?
• What are you learning?
• What are your goals?
• How can I help?

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Christian Leadership … All that Jesus began both to do and teach ( Act 1 : 1 ) جميع ما ابتدا يسوع يفعله و يعلم به

Why is knowing the Vision Important? • Know where we are heading. • Evaluate alternative actions and routes. • Prioritize actions. • Disagreements about the way are much easier to solve than disagreements about the direction

A Journey… What do we need for a successful Journey? • Reason / Motive • Vision - Destination / Direction • Critical success Factors (CSF) • Good Route, Gas in the car, good tires,..etc • Measures or KPI’s • Action plan

A Journey… Failing to Plan is the same as Planning to Fail

No planning = Failing Think of a goal as your final destination, if you don’t know what your final destination is, there is no way to plan on how to get there.

Definition of a Goal A Goal is: • A Dream with a deadline. (Napoleon Hill) • Within your control • In Writing

Why Failure? • The goal was not incorporated into a realistic plan that includes measurements, timelines and resources. • Sometimes we don’t know who we really are, our talents, potentials and powers • It is not only Effort and Creativity that matters • The person who set the goal has not told anyone else for added accountability, help and support. • Sometimes we lose the Vision of what we really need

The Benefits of Setting Goals • Suffer less from stress and anxiety • Concentrate better • Show more self-confidence • Perform better • The Happier we become

Strategic Goal A Dream with A Deadline

Setting SMART Goals If goals aren’t reachable, they aren’t worth making. All you have to do to set realistic goals is follow the SMART goals guidelines.

SPECIFIC • What details do you want to accomplish? • “I want to do better in my Spiritual Life” • “I want to increase my daily Prayer from 5 min to 20 min.

MEASURABLE • All goals should have a way to evaluate whether or not they were accomplished. • “I want to train myself to know God’s will in my life.” • “I want to sit at least half an hour a day with my Bible.”

ATTAINABLE • Goals must be something you are capable of reaching. Which one would be a better goal for Ghana Team? “We will help Ghana to know Christ” “We will start with a Fun day in 5 Schools in our next Mission.

RELEVANT • Make goals that are important to you and your lifestyle. Which goal is better for an Evangelist? • “My goal is to discover a cure for Atheism” • “My goal is to inspire at least one person to become a true servant of God to labor with me in the Plentiful Harvest”

TIME - BOUND • Make sure that you have a time set as a “dead line” so your goal is not unending. • “Our goal is to be able to turn Ghana to Christians.” • Our goal is to have a Coptic Priest in Ghana within 3 Years.

Does a person have to achieve their goals in order to be successful? N O Failure to meet goals only matters if you don’t learn something from your mistakes. Sometimes God has a better plan, which will serve the Vision more appropriately, as long as our Vision is IDENTICAL to our Lord’s Vision

Example of A Strategic Plan

Vision Engaging people to Christ, on the foundation of the Gospel and the Sacraments of our Living Church

Mission To deliver the Living Christ within us and show His endless love, to all the uninvolved Christians, unbelievers and Churched people in whatever countries which are in need and willing to accept our service. We strive to draw people’s attention to the goal of our existence and afterlife destination, which is the Kingdom of Heaven, and to gain souls to Christ through running successful projects and preparing suitable calibers to be rooted on the Faith of the Mother Coptic Orthodox Church, and to be equipped for evangelism and pastoral care. St. Paul Evangelism service will humbly give the needed help and support, avoiding the authoritarian image; this will be achieved through loyal servantswho sincerely believe, carefully study, faithfully explain and relevantly apply the word of God through the Mother Church.

Strategic Goals The Goal is to: Establish an evangelic Coptic Orthodox Church within 5 years that will serve its people and be the light house for the whole country.

SMART Goals To achieve this, we agreed upon 4 SMART goals : 1 - Empowering 15 local servant in three years period for each served country 2 - Facilitating the presence of one temporary priest within one year from staring our service and supporting the ordination of at least one permanent priest from the local servants within 5 years

SMART Goals 3 - Facilitating the presence of an established church to serve the country within 5 years from staring our service 4 - Developing the served community: a - Spiritually: by at least one project annually; Conferences, Bible Studies, Visitations or any other way for spreading the Gospel.

SMART Goals 4 - Developing the served community: b - Socially: by establishing at least one project within the first year; Nursery, Educational or Health Care Project or any other project that serves the local community.

Action Plan

The Expected Results of the Project

Example of Joshua’s Strategic Plan

Joshua’s Vision: • “For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.” (Hab 2:3) لان الرؤيا بعد الى الميعاد و في النهاية تتكلم و لا تكذب ان توانت فانتظرها لانها ستاتي اتيانا و لا تتاخر. • "If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, 'a land which flows with milk and honey' (Num 14 : 8) ان سر بنا الرب يدخلنا الى هذه الارض و يعطينا اياها ارضا تفيض لبنا و عسلا (عد 14 : 8)

Joshua’s Mission: و كان بعد موت موسى عبد الرب ان الرب كلم يشوع بن نون خادم موسى قائلا.موسى عبدي قد مات فالان قم اعبر هذا الاردن انت و كل هذا الشعب الى الارض التي انا معطيها لهم اي لبني اسرائيل. كل موضع تدوسه بطون اقدامكم لكم اعطيته كما كلمت موسى.من البرية و لبنان هذا الى النهر الكبير نهر الفرات جميع ارض الحثيين و الى البحر الكبير نحو مغرب الشمس يكون تخمكم. "Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them -- the children of Israel. "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. "From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.”

Joshua’s Mission: لا يقف انسان في وجهك كل ايام حياتك كما كنت مع موسى اكون معك لا اهملك و لا اتركك.تشدد و تشجع لانك انت تقسم لهذا الشعب الارض التي حلفت لابائهم ان اعطيهم. انما كن متشددا و تشجع جدا لكي تتحفظ للعمل حسب كل الشريعة التي امرك بها موسى عبدي لا تمل عنها يمينا و لا شمالا لكي تفلح حيثما تذهب. "No man shall [be able to] stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. "Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. "Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.”

Joshua’s Mission: لا يبرح سفر هذه الشريعة من فمك بل تلهج فيه نهارا و ليلا لكي تتحفظ للعمل حسب كل ما هو مكتوب فيه لانك حينئذ تصلح طريقك و حينئذ تفلح. "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Josh 1: 2- 8)

Joshua’s Mission: • Landing on Canaan • Land Distribution • Enforcing Law

Strategy & Action Plan • Strategic Goal : Occupying Secured cities e.g. Jericho • Action Plan : SMART Objective You shall march around the city, all [you] men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. ( Josh 6 : 3-4 )

Strategy & Action Plan • Output : Occupying Jericho “So the people shouted when [the priests] blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.” (Josh 6: 20) • Outcome : Experience the power of the Hands of the Lord • Impact : Fear in all the area from God’s people “So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout all the country” (Josh 6: 27)

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