This document discusses the making of a leader and argues that true leadership emerges from taking responsibility and solving problems, especially during times of crisis or human need. It provides examples from the Bible of leaders who stepped up during difficult periods and points out that great leaders are ordinary people who faced extraordinary challenges. The document encourages the reader to look for problems around them as opportunities for leadership and asserts that their leadership abilities will shine through in response to the difficulties of their generation.
This document discusses the making of a leader and argues that true leadership emerges from taking responsibility and solving problems, especially during times of crisis or human need. It provides examples from the Bible of leaders who stepped up during difficult periods and points out that great leaders are ordinary people who faced extraordinary challenges. The document encourages the reader to look for problems around them as opportunities for leadership and asserts that their leadership abilities will shine through in response to the difficulties of their generation.
This document discusses the making of a leader and argues that true leadership emerges from taking responsibility and solving problems, especially during times of crisis or human need. It provides examples from the Bible of leaders who stepped up during difficult periods and points out that great leaders are ordinary people who faced extraordinary challenges. The document encourages the reader to look for problems around them as opportunities for leadership and asserts that their leadership abilities will shine through in response to the difficulties of their generation.
This document discusses the making of a leader and argues that true leadership emerges from taking responsibility and solving problems, especially during times of crisis or human need. It provides examples from the Bible of leaders who stepped up during difficult periods and points out that great leaders are ordinary people who faced extraordinary challenges. The document encourages the reader to look for problems around them as opportunities for leadership and asserts that their leadership abilities will shine through in response to the difficulties of their generation.
Ministries The Making of a Leader Introduction Are leaders born or made?
You may be born with some natural talents or
gifts
You may have received a level of leadership
training and education
You may have read many leadership books
You may have been appointed or elected to be a
leader
But you can only become a true leader by doing
two things well: Take responsibility Solve problems The Place of Human Needs Leadership is about solving problems. History has shown that great leaders emerge out of times of great crisis or human need.
All the great leaders whose great achievements
are recorded in the Bible were raised by God to help God’s people meet the needs and overcome the situational crisis of their time
Noah – Gen 6:5-8, 13-22
Abraham – Gen 12:1-3; 18:17-19 Joseph – Gen 41:37-57 Moses delivered Israel from the bondage of Egypt to emerge as a leader – Ex 14:30-31
Joshua became known as a leader when he took
up the challenge of bringing the sons of Jacob into the promised-land – Josh 1:1-10 Deborah lived in a man’s world yet she became a powerful leader in her days when she stepped out to do what men dreaded to attempt – Judges 5:6- 9 Gideon became a mighty leader after he led Israel to victory against the Midianites who invaded and impoverished their land – Judges 6-8 David, Mordecai, Esther, Nehemiah, Zerubbabel, and many great saints and leaders of the Old Testament became solutions to the problems and lights to the darkness of their time
They achieved greatness not because they were
so born, but because they stepped out in a time of great human need and crisis and pointed the people of their time to the solution
They risked their lives, sacrificed their resources
and gave up their rights to personal enrichment to emerge as great leaders. The Price of Greatness The price of greatness is responsibility – Winston Churchill Ex 3:7-11 And the LORD said:" I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.“ 11 But Moses said to God," Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" It is by taking responsibility that ordinary people become extra-ordinary
Leaders are ordinary people who became extra-
ordinary leaders by facing and overcoming extra- ordinary challenges
Great leadership is fostered in the soil of great
human need
You become a leader by sensing and responding
to meet the needs of the people around you
A season of crisis and great human need is the
only time chosen by God to effect the release of great leaders Lookaround you, what you see as a problem may be perceived by others as great opportunities for leadership
Atthis very moment, many nations
including your own are at the cross-road of history
Peopleare suffering everywhere.
Uncertainties have become the outstanding marks of the very time in which we are living It is Your Turn to Shine “… children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world … (Phil 2:15-16)”.
“Arise;shine; for your light has come! And
the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising” (Isaiah 60:1-3). The Leadership Irony The time of your rising is unavoidably connected to the time when darkness is covering the nations, the peoples and their leaders
problems, uncertainties and every other human experience associated with pain
The problems around you are not meant to
consume you: they re organized to reveal the grace and the calling of God on your life
It is by responding to solve those problems that
you will discover the great leader in you. Be the Answer to Our Prayers “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” (Matt 9:35-38)