Sermons About Leadership
Forward Together - leaders dependent on God
Here is the audio content from our February Forward Together event, in which the leaders of PBC gather for encouragement, news sharing and envisioning. In this audio, Simon shares some news before Wayne comes to briefly share what he feels God is saying to the leaders at PBC.
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EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP Part TWO
1 Thessalonians 2:1-2 Part Two How can pastor/teachers have a genuine lasting spiritual impact on their charge as in Acts 20:28? Is there a path, the pattern set forth in scripture that will give direction to a ministry that is still going? Pastors/Elders are given the responsibility to champion the truth, defend the truth, and feed and lead and guide the flock that God has put in his charge. We are called to set the example so others will follow the Lord Jesus Christ. • Called, ordained, set apart, put into the ministry for the purpose of overseeing the flock. PRINCIPLES FOR AN EFFECTIVE MINISTRY How you live your life and how you effectively operate your ministry is in direct relationship to your view of God. PRINCIPLE ONE: THE COOL CONFIDENCE IN GOD’S POWER THAT GAVE HIM TENACITY.  “For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you that it was not in vain: 2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.†1 Thess 2:2. “SUFFERING:†Treated shamefully, insulting outrageous treatment, publicly insulted. (Ac 16:11-40): a circumstance which would have deterred mere natural, unspiritual men from further preaching. “BOLDNESS:†to stick firmly to any decision, plan, or opinion without changing or doubting it. (Ac 4:29 Eph 6:20). Romans 1:1-2. “IN OUR GOD†OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD. The ground of our boldness in speaking was the realization of God as "OUR God†“TO SPEAK THE GOSPEL OF GOD†To continue to teach the truth of the Gospel. “CONTENTION†(argument, disagreement, debate, controversy, conflict, hostility, combative). That is, literally, as of competitors in a contest: striving earnestness (Col 1:29 Col 2:1). But here outward conflict with persecutors, rather than inward and mental, was what the missionaries had to endure (Ac 17:5, 6 Php 1:30). The ministry: There are times you want to bail out. Go easy. Soften the message. SO WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM PAUL? THE MARK OF VALUABLE MINISTRY.  You preach God’s gospel, what God has laid out for you to teach, not some other message. Do it not for popularity, but for the sake of the truth. And when the opposition comes, you do it in the power of God. 1. Count the cost. 2. Believe God is powerful. 3. Be true to the message. 4. Be true to your faith and God. PRINCIPLE TWO: PAUL WAS STEADFAST TO GOD’S TRUTH. For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 1 Thess 2:3 or “for our exhortation, did not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit.†“EXHORTATION†The word implies an appeal. Persuasive discourse. Animating appeal or charge. Paul’s preaching was an exceeding dialogue. With power, to penetrate the heart with its warning, and encouragement, to arouse out of indifference. To overcome the resistance of the will. Roberston “WAS NOT OF GUILE†Deceit. Error. Untruth was not in his preaching. He wasn’t a charlatan, impostor, con. So Paul uses three distinctly different words to affirm the truthfulness of his ministry: expressing a contrast with what was characteristic of false teachers. He first asserted that his message (speak) was true and not erroneous or false. His “manner of life†was pure, not sexually wicked. His method of ministry was authentic, not deceptive. THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL AND FRUITFUL MINISTRY. We preach the truth. 2 Corinthians 4:2. “Our preaching was not persuasive appeal, arousing feeling. But instruction.†FF Bruce “Our preaching does not originate in a delusion of which we are the victim – the Gospel of God.†He was not under some illusion. PAUL GUARDED CAREFULLY THE TRUTH. THE KEY TO MINISTRY IS TO KEEP THE WORD OF GOD PURE. TO HAND THE TRUTH TO THE NEXT GENERATION WITHOUT ERROR. THIS IS A TOPIC CLOSE TO MY HEART…… GUARD THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD. When you are looking for a church, don’t look at the music, how good their children’s ministry is, there teen ministry is, how clever the preachers are. BUT ASK THIS QUESTION: “How well do they guard the truth. I Timothy 6:3-4 3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 1 Timothy 6:3-5
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Trusting Him
Talking about something that can be very challenging for us – especially for type A personalities, do it yourselfers, who like to get things done, for whom patience isn’t the number 1 virtue. That is - trusting God, depending on God.
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Leadership Matters
Leadership Matters. The church desperately needed Godly leadership in the first century and it desperately needs it now. The scripture is clear that we all are responsible to Jesus Christ but it is also clear that there are some who are to be responsible for others as well. This sermon is the Apostle Paul's charge to the young Pastor Timothy to find men who are qualified to lead the church. Elders in oversight and Deacons in service.
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Redeeming the Time Pt. One
In contrast with those who give their lives to the futile and empty passions of this world (vs. 3-14), God’s Word calls Christians to live wisely, redeeming the time God has allotted to us. Join us for part one of a practical and biblical look at how we grow in the effective and fruitful use of the time we have on earth.
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Vital Signs 5: Leadership 080209
Rev. Philip Davis speaking on the last subject in the Vital Signs sermon series, entitled 'Leadership'.
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What God looks for in a Leader
A look at what God is looking for in leaders using King David as a model
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A Leadership that is Enduring
1 Thessalonians 2:1-6 Part One verse 1 OUTLINE Overall in Christian ministry there seems to always be a crisis of true leadership. There seems to be always failure in ministry that comes from a failure of spiritual leadership. My concern is learning to have a genuine lasting effective leadership in this church. HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP? BUT FIRST< WHAT MAKES LEADERHIP SO CHALLENGING? Those of us who have been called to preach or pastor and called to be Elders of the church have an immense responsibility 1. Our responsibility is to administer the ordinances in such a way as to lead the people to renew their covenant of obedience and to confess their sin and to purify themselves from all filthiness of the flesh. 2. Our responsibility is to oversee the church, to govern its life including the rebuke of the disobedient and the strengthening of the faint. 3. Our responsibility is to train and to appoint teachers and workers so that they reach all of those who are in their care and are able in a diverse way to offer biblical counsel and example for resolving their doubts, their weaknesses, their fears, their difficulties, their sins and their anxieties. 4. The responsibility of the spiritual leader is also to be the physician who runs the hospital which cares for all their infections, whether vice or heresy and leads them to holy cures or expels them. 5. And the spiritual leader is responsible to be the tender shepherd who cares to see that all their needs are supplied and all their wounds are healed and all their distresses are resolved. 6. The spiritual leader is to champion the truth, defending it and its flock. And for all of that he must answer to Christ. And in all of it he is to be a model of spiritual virtue and is to live what he wants the people to become. WHO IS QUALIFED FOR SUCH A CALLING? I ask myself how, with all my weaknesses of the flesh, am I able to accomplish such God-given responsibilities. I live in fear of failure, and that is not so uncommon. Paul even struggled with his flesh, doing things he wanted to do. He too battled a thorn in the flesh. Yet we can learn from him how to succeed in leadership. 1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. 5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: 6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. 1 Thess 2:1-6 (KJV) In these marvelous six verses Paul shares with us the principles for a valuable ministry as God measures usefulness. BACKGROUND OF PAUL IN THE CHURCH: • One way to destroy the effectiveness of the pastor/teacher is to attack his integrity and sincerity and destroy the confidence of the man who God had to found the church. • Frauds (crime of cheating somebody) in Paul’s day was as rampant as they are today. Paul, Timothy, Silas were accused of wicked motives, intentions, as self-seeking fakers. PAUL THEREFORE WRITES THIS BOOK TO THE CHURCH. Paul recalls how he ministered to them, and states out the principles that made his ministry effective. Vs One: ¶ For <1063> yourselves <846>, brethren <80>, know <1492> (5758) our <2257> entrance in <1529> unto you , that it was not in vain <2756>: You know our ministry has not become empty, nor has it has been a failure or false. Preachers watch to see what will be the outcome of the work where he has pastured, to see if it succeeds and is not fruitless or ineffective. But the preaching was not feeble, void of earnestness, or energy. The impact was dynamic, in the Word of God and not pointless. This church was a successful church as we have seen in chapter one. SO HOW WAS PAUL’S MINISTRY FULL OF ENERGY AND EFFECTIVENESS? WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES TO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN THE CHURCH? • “How you live your life and how you successfully operate your ministry, is in direct relationship to your view of God.â€
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Community in the Midst of Conflict
Jesus is challenged by the religious leaders of his day, “Who do you think you are?†As Jesus answers this question, he creates both conflict and community. His answer gets to our hearts—where do we really stand? His answer creates both conflict with hypocritical leadership and community among those who have experienced the indescribable grace that he offers to all.
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