Leadership
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3min script for UCB
Hello, it’s nice to be with you again, we shared some
time together a few weeks ago chatting about prayer. For the next few weeks I
am going to be talking to you about another subject, Leadership. I’ve written a book on this subject and it’s
called ‘Leadership and…’
I wrote this book for anybody and everybody, so far it’s
sold very well and it’s on its third re-print.
The problem is a number of people have said to me, ‘I’ve seen the book
but didn’t buy it because I’m not a leader.’
I think perhaps I should have given it a different title.
The thing is, from God’s perspective, he has called
us all to be leaders. Yes, that means
you, even though you may never have thought about being a leader until I just
said it. I watched a programme today on
TV, there was a discussion on whether or not it’s okay for women to be in
leadership. Obviously it was one of
those theological type discussions. I
was puzzled; I thought that in the body of Christ that there was neither Jew
nor Greek, in other words our earthly citizenship type does not matter, our
ethnicity has no bearing in the new kingdom. Neither does our gender, as there
is neither male nor female, we are all sons.
This is what Galatians 2 verse 26 to 29 says
26You are all sons of
God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27for all of you who
were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There
is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one
in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are
Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
So we are all sons of God. That might sound funny
if you are a female. But don’t worry,
the men have issues to, we are also called the bride of Christ.
Some of our words just don’t quite explain it
accurately when we are talking about the kingdom because we are trying to use
concepts that perhaps don’t apply in the new kingdom of God dimension.
What about the leadership angle that I just
mentioned and the fact that perhaps you didn’t even know you were a
leader? 1 Corinthians 6, 1-3 says 1If any of you has a
dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead
of before the saints? 2Do you not know that
the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not
competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that
we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!
What this is saying in simple terms is that
the saints are called to ‘rule’, ‘judge’ or to use my word, ‘lead’ because that
is what leadership is, judging, discerning, ruling and everyone is called to do
that in the world to come so perhaps we had better get into practice.
God has called us to be many things,
prophets, priests and kings to our God.
All of these are leadership based and that leadership preparation does
not start when you die. Here’s the
thing, we need to learn and understand how to be good leaders, we need to start
learning now and that includes you. All
of us are sons and all of us are called.
I have a friend who leads a church community
who often receives requests for the leadership team to visit conferences and
the like, I asked her, ‘How do you decide who you will send?’ Her answer was
funny but appropriate, ‘I send anyone from the community who is willing to go,
the whole church is full of leaders.’
Her answer says it in a nutshell, we are all leaders and you are one of
them, God the father makes us sons, prophets, priests and kings no less.
Adrian Hawkes
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