1. Leadership 1
Identity

2. Question from last week: Is leadership something you’re born with or something you learn?
Hebrews 13:7
To consider a way of life and to imitate a faith means that there is intentionality and purposeful choices in actions.
Leadership requires putting something into practice, not something that just naturally occurs.
To imitate means an expectation and possibility for a person to follow and to accomplish what the leader has accomplished

3. Hebrews 13:24
A difference between leaders and the Lord’s people
Set apart, not more important or better or worse or even superiority, but simply a difference
Distinguishing factor between two groups of people

4. Romans 13:1-5
God has established authority
God ordained leadership
People are placed in positions outside of effort or skill or ability
Divine appointment of leadership

5. Is leadership something you’re born with or something you learn?
Both - leaders are born AND made
We can all become better leaders
Natural born leaders have a limit to their leadership – their personalities
Learning leaders have no limits
Romans 12:8 – gifts of leadership, but does not exclude growth in our gift

6. What is self? What makes up a human being?

7. BODY
SOUL
Mind, will, emotion
SPIRIT

8. Body Physical vehicle and vessel that we inhabit
What we use to sense and interact with the world
We are more than our bodies, but our bodies are part of us, ownership
Haircuts don’t make us feel like we’re missing a part of us

9. Soul Made up of our mind, our will, and our emotion
What we REALLY think, how we perceive the world and other people
Our thoughts make our decisions and determine our values and morals
Our will determines our strength of convictions and our desires
We resist temptations with our will
Emotions are how we feel
Feelings change all the time, depending on mood, situations, circumstances, outside influences
Sense of self does not change even when our ‘soul’ changes (our thoughts, our desires, how we feel)

10. Spirit
1 Cor 14:14
Spirit is supernatural and communicates with God even outside of our soul
Hebrews 4:12
Spirit and soul are divided by the Word of God
Spirit is eternal – the part that lives on even after we die, when our minds are gone, the ‘self’ still exists
John 3:8 – being born again is being born of the spirit. Not just physical or emotional, but spiritual

11. - Learned behaviour/values - man/environment effected
Body // Personality
- Mask
- Self made
- Changeable
Soul // Character
- Learned behaviour/values
- man/environment effected
- Changeable with effort
Spirit // Temperament
- In born
- God created
- Unchangeable
- NOT AUTOMATICALLY EXPRESSED

12. Body/Personality Personality is an outward expression
Personality traits include (but aren’t limited to): friendly, shy, outgoing, confident, polite, etc
Personality can be a mask that we change when convenient (e.g. meeting your CEO vs family dinner)
Put on different masks when required
Easy to change
Self created

13. Soul/Character
Soul and character are aligned because it is our honest self (what we really think and feel about people/ourselves/situations)
Easy to hide from others using masks, but aware of our own honest thoughts and feelings
Defined by external influences (childhood, school, environment, life experiences, church, teaching, friends/people, etc)
Change takes time and work (Rom 12; Eph 5:26)
Slow and gradual change in character, renewing and washing of mind

14. Spirit/Temperament The nature that you’re born with
Innate traits that you have but have not been learnt
Beyond personality, but expression of temperament influences character and personality
Who you REALLY are, outside of environments that you’re born with and outside of the masks that you put on
Temperaments are often masked
Can be suppressed
We are at our best when we are true to ourselves
Good leadership depends on being real and not being what people(including yourself) expect you to be

15. Spirit/Temperament Jer 1:5 God knows us before we’re born
God sets us apart before we’re born
God appoints us before we’re born
Born with something to be known, not blank slates
Our goal is to live according to the temperament, the spirit, that God has created us with

16. Spirit/Temperament
When we go against our God given temperament, we develop coping mechanisms (not all of the symptoms are exclusive to misaligned temperaments)
Less harmful: worry, anxiety, stress, need to be in control, complaining, addiction to TV/entertainment, shopping, etc
More harmful: addiction to sex, pornography, gambling, alcohol etc
Can even use church, ministry, recognition within Christian circles as compensating factors
Solution it to live aligned with a true sense of identity and who God created us to be

17. Spirit/Temperament
Does not mean we give in to every whim and do whatever we feel like
DOES mean that we discover who God has created us to be and live according to His original plan for us
Eph 4, 5 – list of standards of living
Eph 4:24 – reason is not by effort or being untrue to ourselves
Can only live up to the standards when we discover who God has created us to be – ‘true righteousness and holiness’
Putting off old man and putting on the ”new self, created to be like God”
New self is the created self, the original plan. Old self is the one we created