Week 6, “Who Can I Trust?”

With good leaders, people become far more than they could ever be on their own...

Our problem with our understanding of leadership is distrust. With good leaders, people become far more than they could ever be on their own... Our problem with our understanding of leadership is distrust.

Our problem with our understanding of leadership is distrust. With good leaders, people become far more than they could ever be on their own... Our problem with our understanding of leadership is distrust. “When the abuse of power is institutionalized you have created the power to abuse.” ~Jenny Holzer

1What causes fights and quarrels among you 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. ~James 4

1What causes fights and quarrels among you 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. ~James 4

1What causes fights and quarrels among you 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. ~James 4

1What causes fights and quarrels among you 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. ~James 4

1What causes fights and quarrels among you 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. ~James 4

1What causes fights and quarrels among you 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. ~James 4

11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. ~John 10

12When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. ~John 13

13“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. ~John 13

The greatest becoming the least in order to earn the trust of those who follow!

12Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 13Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 14Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you. ~I Timothy 4

15Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. ~I Timothy 4

15Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. ~I Timothy 4

10“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? ~Luke 16

10“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? ~Luke 16

10“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? ~Luke 16

10“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? ~Luke 16

God’s plan for identifying (and becoming) Trustworthy Leaders: ~Intentionally cultivate sacrificial love for their followers

God’s plan for identifying (and becoming) Trustworthy Leaders: ~Intentionally cultivate sacrificial love for their followers ~Earn trust by serving

God’s plan for identifying (and becoming) Trustworthy Leaders: ~Intentionally cultivate sacrificial love for their followers ~Earn trust by serving ~Let everyone see your progress

God’s plan for identifying (and becoming) Trustworthy Leaders: ~Intentionally cultivate sacrificial love for their followers ~Earn trust by serving ~Let everyone see your progress ~Faithful with little things Faithful with worldly wealth & opportunity Faithful with others stuff