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Servant Leader Gathering

Servant Leader Gathering. Fostering & Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders. Today. Explore Biblical foundations for a definition of Christ-like Servant Leadership Consider where the marks of a Christ-like Servant Leader are evident in your life

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Servant Leader Gathering

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  1. Servant Leader Gathering Fostering & Multiplying Christ-like Servant Leaders

  2. Today • Explore Biblical foundations for a definition of Christ-like Servant Leadership • Consider where the marks of a Christ-like Servant Leader are evident in your life • Consider where the marks of Christ-like Servant Leadership are evident in homes, workplaces, communities, congregations, and the world

  3. At your table, share • Your name • What made you decide to come today • One hope you have for this day

  4. Leadership • What is a leader?

  5. Servant Leadership • What is a servant leader? It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature. – Robert Greenleaf

  6. Christ-like Servant Leadership • What is a Christ-like Servant Leader? • Incarnation: Philippians 2:6-8 • Missio Dei: 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

  7. Know ‘em when you see ‘em • Jesus’ definition: Matthew 20:25-28 • Paul’s helps: Philippians 2:1-4 • Jesus’ example: John 13:1-3

  8. Definition A KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others: 1 Celebrate their Baptismal identity, Restored Gifted Called

  9. Definition A KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others: 2 grow more Christ-like, manifesting the grace-filled marks of obedience, health, purpose, community and generosity; and A reconciling servant in the world who follows the example that Jesus set

  10. Definition A KINDLE Christ-like Servant Leader helps others: 3 foster and multiply generations of Christ-like servant leaders in their homes, workplaces, congregations, communities, and the world. helping others recognize themselves, accept the role, and actively engage as reconciling, Christ-like servant leaders wherever they may be

  11. Conversation • What stands out for you in the KINDLE definition of a Christ-like Servant Leader? • What challenges you?

  12. God shapes people over an entire lifetime God intends to develop us to reach the maximum potential A lifelong perspective provides many keys Shaping processes can be identified Patterns can be identified The Marks: A Lifelong Perspective From “The Life Cycle of a Leader” by Robert Clinton & Richard Clinton in Leaders on Leadership, p. 156.

  13. Post-It Note Timeline Titles: Post-It Note timeline adapted from Refocus process by Church Revitalization Movement.

  14. Brainstorm significant people and events … Regarding your family Regarding the racial diversity of your community Regarding your faith journey Ask the Spirit to reveal things to you Write near the bottom of the note; consider writing the year in the corner Step # 1 – Brainstorm One itemper note

  15. Identify those events that were painful … Rewrite them on pink Post-it notes Step # 2 – Identify Painful Events Replace yellow with pink

  16. Step # 3 – Chronological Order

  17. Step # 3 continued …

  18. Step # 3 continued …

  19. Earliest note top left Integrate pink and yellow as you go When you arrive at the margin on the bottom or you find the next Post-it represents a whole new facet of your life, start a new column. Step # 3 continued … Leave a 1-2” margin on top

  20. Chapter Titles: Step # 4 – Major Chapters

  21. Look for natural break points (endings and beginnings) Those times when the major theme of your life/growth/ development shifted Look for 3-5 of them (often more than one column) Step # 4 – Continued … Major Chapters

  22. Obedience Health Purpose Community Generosity Step # 5 continued … Or it could be the absence of one of the marks that is significant Grace-filled Marks of a Christ-like Servant Leader Where in your life do you see these marks? Write the mark on the post-it…

  23. Cluster Conversation • Share one time when one of the Marks of a Christ-like Servant Leader (or its’ absence) showed in your life. • Where did you see the Marks played out in homes, workplaces, communities, congregations, and the world?

  24. Blessing (Name) I celebrate your baptismal identity, and I pray God’s blessing on you as you grow more Christ-like, manifesting the grace-filled marks of obedience, health, purpose, community and generosity; and foster and multiply generations of Christ-like servant leaders in all the places God has you. Amen!

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