Every Church or Business has a Leadership Seat. The question is,

Is anyone in that seat?

Just because you are the leader of a team or organization doesnt mean that your in the Leadership Seat. So that’s why I recorded this vid.. hope it encourages and helps your team move forward!

(This Leadership Seat thought came from a focus group that I was in with my Pastor, Kevin Gerald. It was so good I just had to pass it along…)

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Relationships have the power to accelerate your life!

The other day I had the opportunity to travel with Pastor Kevin Gerald. He flew first class, while I flew coach. Normally as a coach passenger you wait in the longer security check line. But because I was traveling WITH Pastor kevin, I got to go to the front of the line with him.

That experience made me think how true that is in our every day lives. There are key relationships, mentors, leaders, pastors, a boss etc… or what I’m calling “First Class Relationships” that have the ability to Accelerate your life to a new level faster than you could on your own.

The Key: Look in your world and find who those First Class Relationships are and ask yourself “How can I add value to them?”

Why ask that question? Because I didn’t get to the front of the line just because I knew Pastor Kevin, but I got the front of the line because I was traveling WITH, and assisting him.

God has put these relationships in your life and if you learn to identify them and serve them, God will use them to ACCELERATE your life!

Deuteronomy 30:9
Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors,10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Its almost as if you can hear God pleading with humanity, saying, “hey everyone, being fulfilled, happy, prosperous and successful isn’t that hard, just give me your heart and follow my words”

I hate it when people act like its hard to follow Jesus. Its not, its simple. Now you might be thinking, if its simple why isn’t everyone doing it. Well one thought on that is from a great quote that my Pastor(Kevin Gerald) says “If you live for God easy, its hard. But if you live for God Hard, its easy.”

What does our God want from us?

honor and obedience.

We all have two lives. the life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two is resistance.

Typically our resistance isn’t physical, its in many other forms:

Delays/distractions/lack of interest from people/indifference/finances/

1 of 2 things happens when a leader encounters resistance. Either Lamb-like or Lion-like. - if they go to lamb-like leadership, then they give up their power to the resistance.

What Lamb-like leadership looks like:

1. It’s meandering & wondering.

• When you get the sense that the leader doesn’t know what to do or where to go.
• People want to know where we are leading and where are we going?
• People respond differently when we lead confidently and specifically. Thats lion-like leadership.
  
  

2. The Leader believes they are a victim of circumstances.

• Instead of facing and changing the resistance, we tell everyone why we cant.
• Negative Elements of truth that come your way, are not what you want to build a platform on. Example: people in the northwest don’t go to church, so we cant grow a church here.

3. A “do it myself ” mindset takes over rather than a building teams and leading teams mindset.

• they lead from weakness. and people only follow out of pity.
• The truth is, you do more when you include others.

Building team process::: I do it first / I do it you watch / you do it & watch & correct / you do it.

What Lion-like leadership looks like:

1. Owns the need.

• This is a problem I can do something about.
• I can do this, and I WILL do this, and make this happen!
• I’m gonna be a leader that people can follow.

> chic-fil-a - Focus on getting better and our customers will demand that we get bigger.

• No one can make anything grow, God makes it grow, we focus on making things better, and then God will make it grow.
• If we make it better, the people will come.

Lion-like leaders own the need to get better!

2. Owns the strategy and the skill for on-going improvement.

• Leaders not only recognize the need but also own and recognize the strategy to move forward.
• Include other competent people to develop your winning strategy. Too many miss-fires and it will diminish confidence from your followers.
• Leaders need to own the skill development for on-going improvement.

Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed but skill will bring success.

3. Owns the outcome.

• If things aren’t going well than we need to own that.
• Even if its not “Our Department” in a healthy culture we own and care for the whole church.
• So we We..
  - pray
  - encourage
  - have a sense of ownership
• Assessment & Evaluation - From Pk’s book on Church Culture

Ask yourself… was the outcome…

• Affirming
• understandable
• directional
• digestible
• relataeable
• compatible
• inspirational

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These are the notes I took during our latest Champions Centre Staff Training with Pastor Kevin Gerald. I hope they inspire and motivate you to be a Lion-like/Jesus-like leader like it inspired me to be!

- To watch Pastor Kevin’s last weekend message Lion-Like pt.1 check this link: http://vidego.streamingfaith.com/player.php?p=e634k4k7

Its not just a nice idea for a leadership session, its what we must become if we are going to effectively advance the Kingdom of God forward!

Have a good one!

Samuel