PHASE 3 Week 2 LEAD LIKE JESUS Chapter 2
Steve Smith
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1. What is your understanding of Your Heart’s EGO—Edging God Out or Exalting God Only? 2.One of the greatest gifts we can get from those we lead is feedback. How do you handle feedback?
3. How can we lead like Jesus through forgiveness and grace?
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Anish Kuriachen
What is your understanding of Your Heart’s EGO—Edging God Out or
Exalting God Only?
Every heart has an EGO; it’s all about how we use it. Some of us use our EGO’s to edge God out of our lives. Whenever we live from a motivation of pride, selfishness and self-exaltation we are edging God out. This will destroy relationships, and bring confusion in our personal life. Basically it’s not good for a Leader.
Some will use another option and that is to Exalt God Only! When we exalt God only we are considering others more significant than ourselves. We look to the interests of others as well as our own. We seek to be kind and helpful in all of our relational transactions. We’re quick to give people credit for their contribution and most importantly we remember that if it wasn’t for God’s empowerment in our lives, we’re capable of nothing.
One of the greatest gifts we can get from those we lead is feedback. How do you handle feedback?
Servant leaders believe their positions and influence are on loan to those whom they serve, they are more prone to see feedback as a gift rather than a threat. Even when feedback may be hurtful or given in a negative way, a servant leader grounded in God’s unconditional love can get beyond initial negative emotions and seek to find any truth and value for improving their leadership. After all, their position is on loan to their people.
I totally agree with the author and want to become a Servant Leader who will take feedback positively and improve my performance. This will help me improve in ministry and it will be blessing for other too.
How can we lead like Jesus through forgiveness and grace?
Forgiveness is important in leadership, because forgiveness is how servant leaders respond to mistakes and errors. And forgiveness is the way for a heart grounded in the unconditional love of God to respond to the imperfections of others. Jesus established the centrality of forgiveness in His leadership when He cried out from the cross, “Father, forgive them…” (Luke 23:34).
“Grace is the currency of all true relationships.” Grace extends unrestrained fellowship to others in celebration of their inherent dignity as being made in God’s image and as the object of His affection. Grace is at work in relationships when we are present for one another, accepting our mutual limitations and willing to exchange mutual efforts to enhance one another’s well-being. It is only in intimacy that grace bounds. God has reached out in the most profound way to restore our intimate relationship with Him. Even when we walk away from Him in our sin, His grace abounds in that “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us”(Romans 5:8).
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1. What is your understanding of Your Heart’s EGO—Edging God Out or
Exalting God Only?
By definition, ego is defined as the exaggerated sense of self-importance, which usually results is an excessive preoccupation with “self.” As Christians, it is important that we both put into to practice and live in ego's polar opposite, humility. Naturally, out human instincts turns in the direction of our ego, but it is important that we instead, look within our heart to remain humble. Our ego can even cause us to stray into the world of modern idolatry and our strive for status. The dark forces of this age have convinced me that contentment is achieved only by satisfying the urges of the self. And we can trace this all the way back to the Garden of Eden where Eve became stirred by Satan’s lie that she could “be like God” (Genesis 3:5).
2.One of the greatest gifts we can get from those we lead is feedback. How do you handle feedback?
Personally, I deeply value constructive criticism,because I feel that there is always room for improvement. When working in a team, I do no aim to delegate others; I like to make the individuals surrounding me feel as if their opinions are heard and understood. Even though I enjoy taking initiative, my objective is to not overpower the other members of any groups I may be a part of. Like my mother says, “It is not the dynamic of the voice that determines a good leader, but it is the ambition of the soul and the readiness of the ears.” Applying this lesson to my biblical studies, I must ready my ears for God's instructions and learn from my mistakes.
3. How can we lead like Jesus through forgiveness and grace?
Luke 17:3-4 states that “If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.” To walk in the path of Jesus, we must humble our pride in order to forgive others or when needed, be willing to forgive ourselves for past mistakes. At times, we can be our harshest critics! The Bible not only gives us portraits of God’s grace, as with the healing of Naaman, but it also gives us striking, clear, and up-front portraits of man’s sinfulness and perversion. It’s never a pretty picture, but it is a necessary one if we are to see our sickness and helplessness and turn in repentance to the grace of God.