Hoping to finish my forthcoming book today: Living Leadership: Growing Vibrant Leaders in Your Local Church.
The main themes are how to grow in biblical, spiritual servanthood. Leadership for Christ's sake. That is, leadership dedicated to him receiving glory in many lives as they are transformed to be like him.
Read moreGod is Not Lucky to Have Me
God is not fortunate to have me. He doesn’t sit in Heaven saying to the angels: “you angels, we up here in Heaven are so fortunate that Marcus Honeysett became a Christian. What would happen to my great plan for reaching the world if we didn’t have access to his talents?” I can pretty much guarantee that conversation has never taken place!
Read moreDiscipling and Training
Some elements to think about when discipling leaders include: how to help them live the whole of their life and exercise their leadership based on a daily appreciation of justification and grace; how being adopted as Sons of God shapes character, goals, relationships; how prayer and worship life are central to their joy in God; how growing in Christ-likeness will mean outdoing others in humility, repentance, forgiveness and kindness; what exhibiting the Galatians 5 fruit of the Holy Spirit in our lives actually means in practice.
Read moreReconciliation
2 Cor seems clear that restoration, forgiveness, comfort and love is the appropriate response to repentance. It should be offered as quickly as possible, in order not to give Satan a foothold. It isn't the appropriate response to non-repentance. In that situation what gives Satan a foothold is declining to discipline and allowing an unrepentant person to continue in their sinful behaviour towards a church.
Read moreYou Let Us Down; 2 Cor 1:12-2:4
There are few more guaranteed causes of bitterness than feeling let down. When bitterness abounds it is extremely easy to mistake and misrepresent (either deliberately or unintentionally) the motivation of the person you feel bitter towards. So it was in 2 Corinthians.
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