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1st June 2018
Kingfisher Leadership news Learning the lessons:
Leadership pitfalls and how to avoid them
The lessons of balance:
All leaders encounter difficulties, distractions and discouragements from time to time… leadership is a challenging calling. Charles List three practical steps you can take to make sure that you Spurgeon, in a lecture entitled “The Minister’s fainting fits”, are getting the balance right: observed that “The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous and the joyous not always happy”. In other words, ✦ everyone, particularly leaders, experience TO LEARN challenging times in ministry. However, there are some particular pitfalls that leaders commonly fall FROM YOUR ✦ into that significantly increase the stress of MISTAKES IS leadership. What are they and how to do we avoid GOOD. TO them? ✦ The lesson of attention to detail: List three practical steps you can take to make sure that you are getting the attention to detail right:
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LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS IS BETTER!
1 - A lack of balance in ministry vs family Although David was a great leader, described in Acts 13:22 as ‘a man after God’s own heart’, his leadership was severely impaired by a lack of balance in his life. “Now (Adonijah’s) father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking , ‘What are you doing?’” (1 Kings 1:6, NLT)
How should David have acted? “He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)” (1 Timothy 3: 4 – 5, NIV) 2 - A lack of attention to detail Although Solomon was known as being a very wise man, his leadership was severely impaired because of his lack of attention to detail in terms of following God’s instructions.
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The lesson of trust: List three practical steps you can take to make sure that you are not lacking in trust as a leader:
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1st June 2018
“The king must not build up a large stable of horses for himself and he must never send his people to Egypt to buy horses there, for the Lord has told you, ‘You must never return to Egypt’. The king must not take many wives for himself, because they will lead him away from the Lord. And he must not accumulate vast amounts of wealth in silver and gold for himself” (Deuteronomy 17: 16 – 17, NLT) “So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king in all the earth…Year after year, everyone who came to visit brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses and mules. Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses. He had 1400 chariots and 12, 000 horses… The King made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones…Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt…Now Solomon loved many foreign women” (1 Kings 10: 23 – 11:1, NLT) How should Solomon have acted?
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HINT: " 'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.'” (Luke 19:17, NIV) A lack of trust in God Saul was Israel’s first king and, early on in his reign, enjoyed the success that came with God’s favour. However, the turning point in his reign came through a rash decision to take matters into his own hands and offer a burnt sacrifice himself, rather than wait for Samuel to come and do it as God had commanded. This seems like a small thing, but it demonstrated how crucial it is that a leader trust God rather than take matters into their own hands. “Saul replied, ‘I saw my men scattering from me and you didn’t arrive when you said you would, and the Philistines are at Micmash ready for battle. So I said, ‘The Philistines are ready to march against us and I haven’t even asked the Lord’s help!’ So I felt obliged to offer the burnt offering myself before you came’ ‘How foolish! Samuel exclaimed. ‘You have disobeyed the command of the Lord your God. Had you obeyed the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your dynasty must end…’” (1 Samuel 13: 11 – 14, NLT) How should Saul have acted? HINT: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will 2 make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3: 5 – 6, NIV)
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