Simple Church Model Of Self Leadership

Great leaders work purposefully to communicate what is important. A clear and commonly understood set of standards is critical to encouraging the heart. Standards must have a focus on excellence and be inspirational. Kouzes & Posner state that people want to do a good job and be successful, and it is an essential part of a leader’s role to communicate what success looks like. Standards are comprised of three aspects; all of which leaders must address. First, leaders must seek to address values. Leaders have to stand for something and have courage in their principles. Leaders must convey these values to other members and seek correspondence between personal and

After a car accident three years ago, God used the recovery period to hone my old skills and birth new. Over the course of the process, He repositioned me for a different journey. The new path led to a transition from a secular K-12 setting to Christian higher education; yet, still within the context of supporting a diverse student population. My purpose became preparing and teaching ministerial leadership in a

Summary The Jesus Life Coach book by Laurie Beth Jones helped me as a life coach to understand how to help my agents infuse their spiritual values into their personal lives and at the work place. The book displays four key principles of infusing the spiritual life to create a balance, formulate goals, enjoy productivity, as well as attain fulfillment of one’s personal goals and heavenly success. Jones’ (1798) book has a wealth of information and inspiration that will motivate one to excel and enjoy all walks of life. Jones uses spiritual values to get you thinking, working, and achieving all your goals and dreams.

The Word of God imparts, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” The goal to remain in full commitment with the vision of my leaders are viable. However, what matter in this process is to validate the receptive of the audience with the message intended for their spiritual transformation. Consequently, the role displayed from my serving others, includes my character, attitude, work ethics, knowledge, wisdom, and my perception which differs from the other leaders.

Based on my analysis, I explain that AMC leaders who happen to be Christian leaders should understand what is leadership before getting into overarching goals from a Christian perspective and how should they should be handled properly. AMC leaders should explore the Christian principles by laying a strategic plan that is easy to understand and use it effortlessly and efficiently. However, when a leader keeps his maintenance of Christian’s core values and beliefs, he should be comprehensive and concise on where he leads his followers in his organization. “In regard to maintaining core values and beliefs, a common theme was that focusing on what you believe to be the ‘right thing to do’ gives a sense of personal integrity, self-worth, and even accomplishment—no matter what the final outcome” (Shaw, 2012, pg.59). Therefore, from a Christian perspective, a leader should seek and serve God and those he shows the way strategically in his organization.

Information from chapter one comprised of a summary of my assignments reports from the various ministries served and class discussions post. Moving forward to chapter two talks more of the vast amount of lessons learned through the five goals and the effectiveness of actual hands-on application: the practice of communication, pastoral-spiritual care, the practice of leadership, engaging diversity, and handling conflict. There were target events in each goal setting subject. For example, in communication, my target events were in small groups, classes, writings of creative activities curriculum, and counseling. In this process, my practice skills supported an audience of women, youth both boys and girls, and children. The area of pastoral-spiritual care involved Bible studies, home visits, hospital and nursing homes visits, grieving family visits, and prison ministry visits with the Children of Inmates Program. The practice of leadership comprises of attending events, training, and assisting in various ministries in need. Engaging diversity involved observing other ministry leaders engaging in a large church congregation, speaking at women's breakfast or functions, speaking at funeral services, and assisting in the planning of funeral with family members. Handling conflict dealt with counseling of premarital sessions, marriage counseling sessions, counseling child abuse sessions, counseling drug addiction session, counseling depression with childhood sexual abuse sessions and assisting with crisis individuals seeking assistance through the resources at our church Peacemakers office. Consequently, chapter three describes the most life changing events causing major setbacks in this journey of my calling and the solutions involved. Chapter four detailed some specifics on the results of my self-analysis test. Some of the shared data comprised of personal

The individuals that make up a church are builders. These builders have the ability, through Christ, to define, illustrate, measure, and discuss a ministry blueprint that will help bring clarity to their church’s ministry process. This process will not only help define what the goals of their church are, but also how to reach those goals. In addition to bringing clarity to the vision of the church, having this ministry blueprint in place will help the leaders in their church communicate and be understood even more effectively.

According to the authors, Rainer and Geiger, “simple churches” or dynamic churches, experience a steady increase in the number of members that join their church each year. Churches that experience this annual growth in membership are more likely to have established programs and events that effectively share the gospel with the unsaved and aid in the progression of the church’s congregants’ spiritual development. Paradoxically, churches who do not experience this growth are likely to be “complex churches,” which have ineffective ministries that fail to evangelize and aid in the progressive of congregants’ spiritual development. Rainer and Geiger offer the church leader a

David currently leads the campus development of Chi Alpha on the Tarrant County College (TCC) campuses. To this position, he brings twenty years of corporate managerial experience. David divides his responsibilities between Chi Alpha at the downtown Trinity River TCC campus and his position as college and career pastor at Fossil Creek Church. Considering the importance of David’s role at Fossil Creek Church to this ability to serve Chi Alpha, this motivational plan will address excellence both in terms of ministry responsibilities and balance. In our interview, David communicated the value he places on developing leaders, therefore, I will focus on leadership development a primary measure of excellence.

I have many years of mid-management experience, am much more mature than the average new pastor, I am also much older than average. This does not mean I will not face certain pitfalls in my ministry. I have dealt with a few and have come to understand more recently. There are three major issues I feel I have in my life which can, do, or likely will interfere with my effectiveness as a minister of the Gospel, isolation, losing my awe for God, and forgetting who I am and who God is are the issues I will focus on in my personal ministry plan. I will discuss each as they relate to me and how I plan to avoid succumbing to them and in turn damaging or destroying my ministry.

I set up a date for my interview with Pastor Andrew to become part of a team. I explained to them how I wanted to make a difference with them, grow closer to God, and become a better leader. I ended up becoming part of the Student Leader Team. We had meetings at five thirty three times a month before church. They would put us in different positions in the church like sound booth, greeter, snack stand, and walker. Every Wednesday but one we would switch off and sometimes we would have the same one every week. During my meetings we would have a discussion over a leadership book we received when we joined. We would read passages and right our answers about the leadership style we saw and how God came into the situation. Also, I would take surveys in the packet to see what type of leader I am. That taught me that relationships are one of my highest skills when it comes to leadership. That taught me that me more about myself and that I care about the relationships with the people around me. It became valuable when I got put into a team aspect where I had to work with others. An example is when we put together our Christmas party for our whole youth group we all had to decide what theme we wanted, the food, time, and how we were going to spread the word about it. We all worked together as a team and had all different leadership roles that we each played. Overall the

A sentiment common to almost any organization is that the one fact that remains constant is change. As society changes, and human understanding grows, any organization that maintains a static posture, assures its demise. Churches and Christian organizations are no exception. The gospel may remain the same, but the method for communicating it must speak to the audience to assure understanding. The Christian leader must be prepared to meet this challenge by incorporating an effective model for change into his theology of leadership in order to keep the ministry relevant and effective. Searching for such a change agent can prove to be challenging as well. To aid in this search, four

Through this, I’ve further strengthened not only my leadership skills but my responsibility as an adult within the church and in my daily

Although it is often quoted that actions speak louder than words, I believe that the character of a leader may be slightly more important than the actions of a leader.

Effective leadership approaches from a biblical perspective consist of God’s nature in his manifested character. Christian leaders are willing to pay the price to lead in Christ’s affliction. Paul said there is a price to pay in order to lead and Jesus reminded us, “Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master. ' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also” (John 15:20, New International Version). Christian leaders need core attributes of God’s styles and approaches, support and linkage from scriptures, and knowledge of his leadership models of truth for effective leadership. However, these perspectives will gave me a better appreciation and insight of who God is and who I can be with his guidance.