The Making Of A Leader RECOGNIZING THE LESSONS AND STAGES OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.

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The Making Of A Leader RECOGNIZING THE LESSONS AND STAGES OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

“ ” Leaders who make decisions for others need to understand the various factors that allow convergence: role-match, giftedness, experience, spiritual maturity, destiny, geographic location, etc. They should consider the needs of the individual as well as the needs of the organization.

Leadership Development Theory Leadership development theory does what a good map is supposed to do. It is a set of well integrated ideas to help us:  Organize what we see happening in leaders’ lives,  Anticipate what might happen in future development,  Understand past events so as to see new things in them,  Better order our lives. God develops a leader over a lifetime. Leadership is a lifetime of God’s lessons. Yours will be unique.

Leadership Development Theory Leadership development theory begins with the concept of formulating a time-line. Though it is not true specifically for anyone, it does give a functional framework. Sovereign Foundations Inner Life Growth Ministry Maturing Life MaturingConvergence Phase I Phase IIPhase III Phase IV Phase V

The Basis for Lessons: The Big Picture The church worldwide is in need of a committed group of disciples, like those past leaders, who can lead the way by demonstrating through their lives a faith worth imitating.  Patterns - deal with the overall framework, or the big picture, of a life.  Processes - deal with the ways and means used by God to move a leader along in the overall pattern.  Principles - deal with the identification of foundational truths within processes and patterns that have a wider application to leaders.

The Generalized Timeline This period is defined as Phase II, the Inner-Life Growth phase. The leader learns the importance of praying and hearing God. In Phase III, Ministry Maturing, the emerging leader reaches out to others. Many of his lessons will zero in on relationships with other people or on the inadequacies in this personal life.  Ministry activity or fruitfulness is not the focus of Phases I, II, and III. God is working primarily in the leader, not through him or her. He wants to teach us that we minister out of what we are. By Phase IV he gains a sense of priorities concerning the best use of his gifts and understands that learning what not to do is as important as learning what to do. The principle that “ministry flows out of being” has new significance as the leader’s character mellows and matures.  In this phase the leader’s experiential understanding of God is being developed. Communion with God becomes foundational; it is more important than success in ministry.

Phase I: Sovereign Foundations God providentially uses both the good and bad experiences in leaders’ lives to prepare them for later use under his lordship. The story of David is a good example.  Despite having seven older brothers and a father unconvinced of his merits, David felt he was destined for a greater purpose.  As he writes in Psalm 139:14, 16, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. … All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

Phase II: Sovereign Foundations Leaders seek to know God more intimately through the use of spiritual disciplines. Formal involvement in ministry often occurs in this phase. God patiently develops discernment and obedience through tests; each successive test building on the previous one. If a leader fails or skirts a test, God graciously provides another opportunity for him or her to succeed.  Our greatest challenge as leaders is to develop a godly character. “Let me be taught,” wrote Henry Martyn, “that the fist great business on earth is the sanctification of my own soul…”  “Character,” said Moody, “is what a man is in the dark…”  Perhaps the key word is integrity…. No amount of reputation can substitute for character.

Phase III Ministry Maturing God helps leaders foster their spiritual gifts and navigate relationships within the body of Christ. God is working in the leader rather than through the leader, and at times the ministry benefits as a result. In this phase, leaders learn to increase their skills for increasing effectiveness. Though the leaders attempt to maximize their impact during this phase, God is trying to teach them that they minister out of who they are. Developing a Leader – Early Processes Three of the items are called checks because of the testing nature of this phase. These are: 1. Integrity checks 2. Obedience checks 3. Word checks.

Phase III Ministry Maturing – The Integrity Check At the heart of any assessment of biblical qualifications for leadership lies the concept of integrity – that uncompromising adherence to a code of moral, artistic, or other values that reveals itself in sincerity, honesty, and candor and avoids deception or artificiality.

Phase III Ministry Maturing – The Word Check A leader must have the ability to receive truth from God. Leaders always have at least one word gift along with others that make up their gift-mix. The primary word gifts are teaching, prophecy, and exhortation.

Phase III Ministry Maturing – Second Lessons: Ministry Maturing Processes – Part I How Does a Person Begin Ministry?  A small beginning, but sensitivity to need  Willingness to serve  Faithfulness to the call

Phase III Ministry Maturing – Second Lessons: Ministry Maturing Processes – Part I As a potential leader moves into ministry, God develops his leadership abilities by taking him through four stages. (1) God challenges the leader into ministry. This is called entry. (2) He/She develops skills and spiritual gifts to enhance the leader’s effectiveness. This is called training. (3) He/She enables the leader to relate to people in ways that will motivate and influence them. He also teaches him how to set up the means to accomplish these goals. This is called relational learning. (4) He/She helps the leader see spiritual principles that govern ministry that pleases Him. This is called discernment.

Phase III Ministry Maturing – Second Lessons: Ministry Maturing Processes – Part I As a potential leader moves into ministry, God develops his leadership abilities by taking him through four stages. (1) God challenges the leader into ministry. This is called entry. (2) He develops skills and spiritual gifts to enhance the leader’s effectiveness. This is called training. (3) He enables the leader to relate to people in ways that will motivate and influence them. He also teaches him how to set up the means to accomplish these goals. This is called relational learning. (4) He helps the leader see spiritual principles that govern ministry that pleases Him. This is called discernment.

Phase III Ministry Maturing – Second Lessons: Ministry Maturing Processes – Part I  In the early ministry sub-phase, entry occurs as God selects those who are faithful and challenges them with ministry tasks and assignments. He develops some ministry skills in the process.  A developing leader will usually struggle with someone who is in authority over him. Learning submission is critical to learning what authority is, so emerging leaders must first learn to submit. Conflict in ministry requires discernment skills..

Phase III Ministry Maturing – The Ministry Challenge “A major responsibility of leadership is the selection and development of potential leaders. Mature leaders should openly and deliberately challenge potential leaders about specific needs and ministry opportunities.”

Ministry Experience Discovery of Gift Increased use of that Gift Effectiveness in using that Gift Discovery of other Gifts Identification of Gift-Mix Development of Gift-Cluster Convergence Phase III Ministry Maturing – Discovering Spiritual Gifts

Stages of Ministry Development  When God directs a potential leader into ministry, He moves him or her through four stages of development.  (1) He challenges a potential leader into ministry – entry.  (2) He develops skills and spiritual gifts to enhance the leader’s effectiveness – training.  (3) He enables the leader to relate to people in ways that will motivate and influence them, and He teaches him how to set up the means to accomplish these goals – relational learning.  (4) He helps the leader see spiritual principles that govern ministry that is pleasing to Him – discernment.

A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction. In order to influence and motivate people, a leader must learn how to relate to people effectively. Relational Learning

The Authority Problem Spiritual authority is delegated by God, and differs from authority that is based on position or force.  One who learns spiritual authority as the power base for ministry must recognize the essential Source of all authority: God.  God’s delegated authority does not belong to the person exercising it – that person is just a channel.  The channel of delegated authority is responsible to God for how that authority is exercised.

The Authority Problem Spiritual authority is delegated by God, and differs from authority that is based on position or force.  A leader is one who recognizes God’s authority manifested in real-life situations.  Subjection to authority means that a person is subjected to God Himself and not to the channel through which the authority comes.  Rebellion against authority means that a person is not subjecting himself to God, though it may appear that the person is rejecting some impure manifestation of God’s authority through a human channel.

The Authority Problem Spiritual authority is delegated by God, and differs from authority that is based on position or force.  People who are under God’s authority look for and recognize spiritual authority and willingly place themselves under it.  Spiritual authority is never exercised for one’s own benefit, but for those under it.  A person in spiritual authority does not have to insist on obedience – that is the moral responsibility of the follower.  God is responsible to defend spiritual authority.

It takes grace and maturity for a man like Barnabas not only to allow such a leadership switch but to work to make it successful. Barnabas’s relational insight was that Paul didn’t need a mentoring, subordinate, or co-equal relationship; he needed to lead. It took a big man to be willing to step down and become the follower. Barnabas recognized spiritual authority, recognized a leader with capacity beyond his own, and took the necessary steps to encourage that leader in his calling. Relational Insight

Ministry conflict, like general conflict, tests a leader’s personal maturity. What we truly are is revealed in a crisis. Ministry Conflict

Leadership Backlash A leader experiencing leadership backlash learns through conflict with others to submit to God in a deeper way. A normal pattern for leadership backlash:  1. The leader gets a vision (direction) from God.  2. The followers are convinced of the direction.  3. The group moves in the direction given.  4. The group experiences persecution, hard times, or attacks from Satan – spiritual warfare is common.

Leadership Backlash A leader experiencing leadership backlash learns through conflict with others to submit to God in a deeper way. A normal pattern for leadership backlash:  5. There is backlash from the group.  6. The leader is driven to God to seek affirmation in spite of the action's ramifications.  7. God reveals Himself further: who He is, what He intends to do.  8. God vindicates Himself and the leader. Leadership backlash tests a leader’s perseverance, clarity of vision, and faith. God uses complications in general to develop inner-life maturity. Leadership backlash is a form of integrity testing in which the leader’s actual motivation can be revealed.

Discernment Spiritual Warfare Process Item  The angel’s explanation reveals the reality of the unseen spiritual warfare behind the physical scene.  All leaders, however, need the ability to discern spiritual reality in general and spiritual warfare in particular. Some leaders have a tendency to go overboard, blaming all conflict and problems on spiritual warfare. They see spiritual forces behind all human realities. Other leaders are blind to spiritual reality and see no spiritual forces behind human actions. Scripture strikes a balance between these two extremes. Physical situations may well be cause, controlled, or instigated by spiritual beings.