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John Piper

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John Piper

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  1. John Piper “I define spiritual leadership as knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to use God's methods to get them there in reliance on God's power. The answer to where God wants people to be is in a spiritual condition and in a lifestyle that display his glory and honor his name. Therefore, the goal of spiritual leadership is that people come to know God and to glorify him in all that they do. Spiritual leadership is aimed not so much at directing people as it is at changing people. If we would be the kind of leaders we ought to be, we must make it our aim to develop persons rather than dictate plans. You can get people to do what you want, but if they don't change in their heart you have not led them spiritually. You have not taken them to where God wants them to be

  2. What Should we expect of our Spiritual Leaders? • Initiative • Sacrifice • Vision

  3. Exemplary Spiritual Leaders take the Initiative, 11:1a

  4. Philippians 3:12-13 Verse 13-17: "Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. Verse 12: “Not that I have already attained this or am made perfect, but I press on to make it my own, BECAUSE Christ Jesus has made me his own.

  5. Exemplary Spiritual Leaders Sacrifice for the good of Others- 11:1b

  6. Exemplary Spiritual Leaders See the future Good God offers his People- 11:1c

  7. Daniel 9:24-26 “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. 25  Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

  8. How should we Respond to our Spiritual Leaders? • With Expressions of Thanks and Goodness-“They blessed them”

  9. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you. 13 Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other.

  10. Galatians 6:6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches”

  11. Hebrews 13:17-18 Obeyyour leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. 18  Pray for us.

  12. How should we Respond to our Spiritual Leaders? • With Expressions of Thanks and Goodness-“They blessed them” • With Labels of Respect and Honor- “Valiant men”

  13. Romans 14:4, 8-12 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand….8  For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9  For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. 10  Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11  for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” 12  So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

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