2 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Today  Explore Biblical foundations for a definition of Christ-like Servant Leadership  Consider where the marks of a Christ-like Servant Leader are evident in your life  Consider where the marks of Christ-like Servant Leadership are evident in homes, workplaces, communities, congregations, and the world

3 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders At your table, share  Your name  What made you decide to come today  One hope you have for this day

4 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Leadership  What is a leader?

5 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Servant Leadership  What is a servant leader? It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature. – Robert Greenleaf

6 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Christ-like Servant Leadership  What is a Christ-like Servant Leader?  Incarnation: Philippians 2:6-8  Missio Dei: 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

7 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Know ‘em when you see ‘em  Jesus’ definition: Matthew 20:25-28  Paul’s helps: Philippians 2:1-4  Jesus’ example: John 13:1-3

8 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Definition A KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others: 1 Celebrate their Baptismal identity, Restored Gifted Called

9 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Definition A KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others: 2 grow more Christ-like, manifesting the grace- filled marks of obedience, health, purpose, community and generosity; and A reconciling servant in the world who follows the example that Jesus set

10 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Definition A KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others: 3 foster and multiply generations of Christ-like servant leaders in their homes, workplaces, congregations, communities, and the world. helping others recognize themselves, accept the role, and actively engage as reconciling, Christ- like servant leaders wherever they may be

11 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Conversation  What stands out for you in the KINDLE definition of a Christ-like Servant Leader?  What challenges you?

12 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders The Marks: A Lifelong Perspective  God shapes people over an entire lifetime  God intends to develop us to reach the maximum potential  A lifelong perspective provides many keys  Shaping processes can be identified  Patterns can be identified From “The Life Cycle of a Leader” by Robert Clinton & Richard Clinton in Leaders on Leadership, p. 156.

13 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Post-It Note Timeline Titles: Post-It Note timeline adapted from Refocus process by Church Revitalization Movement.

14 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 1 – Brainstorm  Brainstorm significant people and events … Regarding your family Regarding the racial diversity of your community Regarding your faith journey  Ask the Spirit to reveal things to you  Write near the bottom of the note; consider writing the year in the corner One item per note

15 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 2 – Identify Painful Events  Identify those events that were painful … Rewrite them on pink Post-it notes Replace yellow with pink

16 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 3 – Chronological Order

17 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 3 continued …

18 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 3 continued …

19 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 3 continued …  Earliest note top left  Integrate pink and yellow as you go  When you arrive at the margin on the bottom or you find the next Post-it represents a whole new facet of your life, start a new column. Leave a 1-2” margin on top

20 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Chapter Titles: Step # 4 – Major Chapters

21 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 4 – Continued …  Look for natural break points (endings and beginnings)  Those times when the major theme of your life/growth/ development shifted  Look for 3-5 of them (often more than one column) Major Chapters

22 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Step # 5 continued …  Obedience  Health  Purpose  Community  Generosity Grace-filled Marks of a Christ-like Servant Leader Where in your life do you see these marks? Write the mark on the post-it… Or it could be the absence of one of the marks that is significant

23 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Cluster Conversation  Share one time when one of the Marks of a Christ- like Servant Leader (or its’ absence) showed in your life.  Where did you see the Marks played out in homes, workplaces, communities, congregations, and the world?

24 Fostering and Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders Blessing (Name) I celebrate your baptismal identity, and I pray God’s blessing on you as you grow more Christ-like, manifesting the grace-filled marks of obedience, health, purpose, community and generosity; and foster and multiply generations of Christ-like servant leaders in all the places God has you. Amen!