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Leadership Choices

I am constantly looking to get better as a leader.  I have come a long way but I also know I have a long way to go.  Leading people is both a responsibility and a privilege.  Just because people follow you doesn’t mean you are a good leader, it simply may mean that they have to.  I have learned through difficult choices and circumstances what it means to lead with integrity and character and what it means to lead by abuse and the twisting of truth.  I am continually asking myself several questions: 1.  How do I want to be led?  2.  Is how I want to be led best for me or is it best for the organization and cause?  3.  Am I leading my team the best I can according to question 1 and 2?

Perry Noble did a post this morning on the 10 choices a leader needs to make in leading his staff, great post.  I would say these 10 choices don’t just apply to a church staff but to a volunteer staff in any organization as well as corporate America.  Check out what he wrote below.

#1 – Choose to believe the best about the people on your team rather than always assuming the worst about them.

#2 – Choose to trust them to make decisions that matter without having to run every minor detail by your for your approval.

#3 – Choose to believe that when they ask particular questions that they aren’t being disloyal but rather seeking clarification.

#4 – Choose to believe that they really do love the church and want to see it thrive.

#5 – Choose to lead through inspiration and revelation–NOT intimidation, humiliation, condemnation and manipulation.

You can find #6-#10 on his blog at www.perrynoble.com

What are your thoughts?  Do these apply to corporate America as well?  Do you agree, disagree?  Would you change any?  Add to any?

Four Points Of Attack – Your Motives

Awesome, awesome, awesome post by Perry Noble of New Spring Church.  How true it is.  Below is his post.

Four Points Of Attack

I’ve been reading through the Sermon on the Mount lately…and what Jesus said in Matthew 5:10-12 has really stood out…because…

As a leader in ministry we ARE going to be attacked…especially if we are having an impact in the areas in which we are planted.

This week I want to go over four areas that leaders WILL be attacked in…and deal with how to handle it.

Area #1 – Your Motives

There is no way around it…people are going to question WHY you do what you do…and the more success you see in ministry the more people will question your motives.

Let me be clear…you can’t win this fight…the only thing that you can do is consistently check your heart to make sure that you are listening to the voice of God and then doing what He says.  (We can lie to people…but we can’t lie to Him…He knows our hearts and one day our motives, if impure, will be exposed because He will NOT be mocked!  Galatians 6:7).

Reality is this…most people who question your motives don’t have a freakin clue where you came from.  They don’t know the crap you’ve put up with, the sleepless nights you’ve gone through and the personal sacrifices you’ve made to get to where you are.  AND…

You CAN’T waste your time explaining those things to them because—THEN they accuse you of pride (an accusation you can’t really defend…because if you say you are not then you lose!)

You just need to ask yourself the following questions when it comes to why you do what you do?

• Am I allowing Jesus or my personal desires to shape my motives?
• Is this desire in me a passion that will enlarge His Kingdom…or a cool idea that will allow me to become more popular?
• Are my motives being shaped as I study the Scriptures…or does God’s Word conflict with what I want?
• Are the godly people the Lord has placed in my life rebuking me or affirming me?
• Am I doing what I do because I love Jesus and people…or because I love myself and see all of the personal gain I can achieve out of this?
• Am I doing this for attention from others or AFFIRMATION from my heavenly Father?  (Matthew 3:17)

People questioning our motives can drive us crazy…that is why we must allow the voice of Jesus to shape us rather than the people who don’t have a clue as to why we are doing what we are doing.

Always crucial for us to check our motives no matter what level of leadership we are in.

Catalyst West 6 of 6: Perry Noble

Over the next couple blogs you will see quotes done by those who spoke at Catalyst West in LA over this last week.  Each of these guys are leaders in their field and have the ability to shape us with their quotes.  Just remember we were not there so some quotes are incomplete and we don’t know the context in which they were made.

• 8:38 PM tonymorganlive - Perry started talking about the other speakers. It was funny. You missed it.
• 8:40 PM tonymorganlive - “On the third situp I parted her hair.”
• 8:42 PM tonymorganlive - “Hey man, have you seen my Twitter?”
• 8:43 PM tonymorganlive - “The size of the vision God will give me is directly related to the amount of pain and discomfort I’m willing to endure.”
• 8:45 PM tonymorganlive - “The reason we experience pain is to understand his provision.”
• 8:46 PM tonymorganlive - “Trust him.”
• 8:48 PM tonymorganlive - “If you’ve been called to ministry, God’s hand is on you.”
• 8:50 PM tonymorganlive - “If you walked up to me and said ‘I like you but your wife is ugly,’ I’d punch you in the throat.”
• 8:51 PM tonymorganlive - (Perry just did his TV evangelist impersonation.)
• 8:52 PM tonymorganlive - “God said, ‘I don’t like those people either, Perry.’”
• 8:52 PM tonymorganlive - “I got to go to my first deacons meeting.”
• 8:53 PM tonymorganlive - “Dryness will always lead to desperation.”
• 8:54 PM tonymorganlive - “The Savior is trying to teach you and me who he is.”
• 8:57 PM tonymorganlive - “I don’t want to preach nice sermons.”
• 8:57 PM tonymorganlive - “Believe him.”
• 9:01 PM tonymorganlive - “God said, ‘I need you to feel what I feel, so you can do what I need you to do.’”
• 9:03 PM tonymorganlive - “Why do leaders run from big vision from God?”
• 9:03 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders, we don’t have a hard time teaching on the sovereignty of God. We just have a hard time believing it.”
• 9:04 PM tonymorganlive - “There are people who are obsessed with discovery rather than development.”
• 9:05 PM tonymorganlive - “You feel stuck because you’re not ready for the next level.”
• 9:05 PM tonymorganlive - “Leadership is as easy as listening to God.”
• 9:06 PM tonymorganlive - “We don’t know what we’re doing?”
• 9:06 PM tonymorganlive - “Moses didn’t have a 40-year strategic plan.”
• 9:07 PM tonymorganlive - “God led Moses one step at a time.”
• 9:08 PM tonymorganlive - “If we got more concerned with repentance rather than attendance, revival would sweep our nation.”
• 9:08 PM tonymorganlive - “If you haven’t had a sleepless night about vision, you haven’t heard from God.”
• 9:08 PM tonymorganlive - “Cheese biscuits bring you closer to God.”
• 9:09 PM tonymorganlive - “What would you be willing to attempt for God if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
• 9:10 PM tonymorganlive - “Only when we surrender do we experience the supernatural.”
• 9:10 PM tonymorganlive - “I believe that God still heals people.”
• 9:10 PM tonymorganlive - “I dropped out of cemetary. I didn’t even finish.”
• 9:13 PM tonymorganlive - “We just consistently obeyed Jesus and, when we were ready for it, he blew our freakin’ minds.”
• 9:13 PM tonymorganlive - “We’re the church that’s known as the place where the ’sinners’ go.”
• 9:14 PM tonymorganlive - “The kid said, ‘I want to go back to the damn church.’ I said, ‘Get his name because he’s going to be on staff someday.’”
• 9:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Do you believe God has spoken a vision into your life?”
• 9:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Honor him.”
• 9:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Finish what you started.”
• 9:18 PM tonymorganlive - “She just stood there waiting for something to happen.”
• 9:18 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t give up.”
• 9:20 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t you dare give up on the God that’s never given up on you.”

Isims

* “No one wants to sign up at the ‘go to hell’ table.”
* “You don’t have to be good to get into Heaven – you have to be perfect.”
* “The bad guy deserves to die. Here’s the problem – we’re the bad guy.”
* “If life were perfect, it wouldn’t be life; it would be heaven.”
* “We’re talking about Jesus. He’s pretty important. He was dead, and now he’s alive. I’m going to listen to that guy.”
* “Jesus said, ‘If you put me first, I’ll take care of everything else.’”
* “We don’t have a problem recommending a restaurant, but we do have a problem recommending a Savior.”
* “Hell is real. And people that don’t know Jesus go there.”
* “Most Christians are willing to do something for Jesus as long as it doesn’t cost them anything.”
* “I had allowed spending time with God to be replaced by spending time doing things for God.”
* “There are no perfect churches to serve in, no perfect pastors to work for, and no perfect environments.”
* “An unguarded strength can become your greatest weakness.”
* “You should design your ministry around your family values.”
* “How do you get people to give? You have to preach on it. Only the people who aren’t giving will leave.”
* “Everyone here can look at another church and call the change they need to make. But can you do that for your church?”
* “Fear of criticism is a powerful deterrent because the criticism doesn’t actually have to occur for the fear to set in.”
* “If a leader isn’t forward-looking the organization they lead will expend tremendous amounts of sideways energy.”
* “Do you have a burden??? Do you have a opportunity to communicate that burden??? By definition that is a ‘calling’… Respond?”
* “Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have, should have, and would have done, but did not do.”

All quotes from: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Brad Cooper, Mark Batterson, Earl Henslin, Seth Godin, Wayne Cordeiro, Craig Groeschel, Bill Hybels, Perry Noble, Tony Morgan

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