Million Leaders Mandate Curriculum by JOHN C. MAXWELL Notebook Three the Art of the Basin and the Towel Lesson 6

1. EXTERNALLY FOCUSED CHURCH LEADERSHIP TRAINING Million Leaders Mandate Curriculum by JOHN C. MAXWELL Notebook Three the Art of the Basin and the Towel Lesson 6

2. To Be Self Sufficient To be Spectacular To be Powerful 3 temptations face by Jesus

3. Saying • Because we children of Adam want to become great, • He became small • Because we will not stoop, • He humbled Himself • Because we want to rule, • He came to serve.

4. Natural leadership Self-Confident Knows men Makes own decisions Ambitious Originates own methods Enjoys commanding others Motivated by personal considerations Independent Spiritual Leadership Confident in God Also knows God Seeks to find God’s will Self-Effacing Finds and follows God’s methods Delights to obey God Motivated by love for God and man God dependent Difference between Natural and Spiritual Leadership

5. Criteria of Leadership Potential • Have you ever broken yourself of a bad habit? • Do you retain control of yourself when things go wrong? • Do you think independently? • Can you handle criticism objectively and remain unmoved under it? Do you turn it to good account? • Can you use disappointments creatively?

6. Criteria of Leadership Potential • Do you readily secure the cooperation and win the respect and confidence of others? • Do you possess the ability to secure discipline without having to resort to a show of authority? • Have you qualified for the beatitude pronounced on the peacemaker?

7. Criteria of Leadership Potential 9. Are you entrusted with the handling of difficult and delicate situations? 10. Can you induce people to do happily some legitimate thing which they would not normally wish to do? 11. Can you accept opposition to your viewpoint or decision without considering it a personal affront and reacting accordingly?

8. Criteria of Leadership Potential • Do you find it easy to make and keep friends? • Are you unduly dependent on the praise or approval of others? • Are you at ease in the presence of your superiors or strangers? • Do your subordinates appear at ease in your presence?

9. Criteria of Leadership Potential • Are you really interested in people? In people of all types and all races? Or do you entertain respect of persons? Is there hidden racial prejudice? • Do you possess tact? Can you anticipate the likely effect of a statement before you make it? • Do you possess a strong and steady will?

10. Criteria of Leadership Potential • Do other people’s failures annoy us or challenge us? • Do we use people or cultivate people? • Do we direct people or develop people? • Do we criticize or encourage? • Do we shun the problem person or seek him out?

11. Criteria of Leadership Potential • Do you nurse resentments, or do you readily forgive injuries done to you? • Are you reasonably optimistic? • Are you in the grip of a master-passion such as that of Paul who said, “This one thing I do”? • Do you welcome responsibility?

12. Christ-Like Servant Leaders • Are motivated by LOVE to serve others. (John 13:1-2) Jesus’ Love Was: 1) Possessive(He loved His own) 2) Continuous(He continued to love them to the end) 3) Unconditional(He even washed Judas’ feet) 4) Unselfish(He was serving in His most difficult hour)

13. Dr John Geddie “ When he landed in 1848, there were no Christians. When he left in 1872, there were no heathens. Worked in Aneityum in 1848

14. Christ-Like Servant Leaders 2. Possess a SECURITY that allows them to minister to others. (John 13:3) • Jesus knew His positionand was willing not to flaunt it. • Jesus knew His callingand was willing to be faithful to it. • Jesus knew His futureand was willing to submit to it. • Security is the prerequisite to great undertakings. Only the secure will stretch. • Security is the prerequisite to small undertakings. Only the secure will stoop.

15. Christ-Like Servant Leaders 3. INITIATE servant ministry to others. (John 13:4-5) Note Jesus’ Attitude: • He had nothing to prove. • He had nothing to lose. • He had nothing to hide.

16. Christ-Like Servant Leaders 4. RECEIVE servant ministry from others. (John 13:6-7) When He got to Simon Peter, Peter said, ‘Master, You wash my feet?’ Jesus answered, ‘You don’t understand now what I am doing, but it will be clear enough to you later.’ Peter then persisted, ‘You’re not going to wash my feet - ever!’

17. Christ-Like Servant Leaders 5. Want nothing to interfere with their RELATIONSHIP with Jesus. (John 13:8-9) “Jesus said, ‘If I don’t wash you, you can’t be a part of what I am doing.’ ‘Master!’ said Peter. ‘Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!’”

18. Christ-Like Servant Leaders • Teach Servanthood by their EXAMPLE. • (John 13:12-15) #1 Motivational Principle: People Do What People See The Leadership Pyramid Leadership Rights

19. Christ-Like Servant Leaders 7. Live a BLESSED life. (John 13:16-17) “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found out how to serve.” -Dr. Albert Schweitzer

20. Christ-Like Servant Leaders 8. Live their lives OPPOSITEthe philosophy of the world. (John 13:18-19) “Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.” Philippians 2:3-4

21. John R. Mott “ I have in mind the use of the word leadership which our Lord doubtless had in mind when He said, “he who would be greatest among you shall be the servant of all”-leadership in the sense of rendering the maximum of service; leadership in the sense of the largest unselfishness; in the sense of un-wearying and unceasing absorption in the greatest work of the world, the building up of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.