One Week to Biblical Leadership
Leadership, according to the Bible, grows when we submit fully to God. James 4:10 says, “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.” Coming under God’s authority means that we know God and obey Him. This is a result of knowing His Word, the Bible.
The Bible is a complex book, containing wisdom, history, poetry and instruction, wrapped in the redemptive story of salvation. Studying the Bible is the first and primary way we grow to understand God. The Bible is trustworthy and true. It is filled with instruction on how to lead. God wants us to make good decisions, build healthy teams, communicate well and to lead with a faith-centered vision in all aspects of life and work.
SIGN UP FOR A LEADERSHIP JOURNEY
In this one-week journey through Scripture, you will walk through seven chapters in the Bible to discover more about God’s ways of leading. Each day contains a Bible chapter to read, and questions to guide your own personal time of study. When you provide your email address below, you’ll receive the first chapter to read immediately. You will receive another chapter each morning beginning tomorrow morning, for a total of seven days.
WHY WE DO IT
We are investing in you as a leader because we believe that grounded, faith-centered leaders are desperately needed for our country and culture. This kind of leadership isn’t built with books and seminars. It’s built one person at a time, through the traditions of listening, learning and shared experience. We invite you to partner with us in your leadership journey. Our prayer is that you will become a leader in your marriage, home and workplace that will impact the lives in your sphere of influence toward Jesus Christ—the greatest Leader of all.
Here are some common questions we receive from table leaders, and some suggestions for how to maintain best practices and grow in life and leadership.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) was an English pastor of the New Park Street Chapel (later renamed Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He became known as the “Prince of Preachers” for his spellbinding sermons, which sometimes ran two hours or more.
What if you could know what God Himself was thinking? What if you were able to discern the very thoughts of God? How would that skill and divine knowledge benefit your life and leadership?
As the clock strikes 12:00 on January 1, many men “take stock” of their lives and leadership during the New Year’s break. How might you invest your time and resources in the coming year to do something meaningful and memorable?
As in many facets of a man’s character, the instruction on trust with respect to biblical leadership is very different. Proverbs 3:5 tells us, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
Today in the US, 6 billion texts will be sent. But that pales compared to the 269 billion daily emails—that’s 74 trillion a year. And the antiquated phone call? Just 2.4 billion per day among America’s 300 million cell phone users. We are certainly communicating… but are we connecting?
Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the country. Of the six million people who live in the metro, about 4.5 million of them drive each day. As a result, each Atlantan spends an average of 70 hours every year stuck in traffic.
If God “opens doors”, then does He also close them? Are there times where you lose a job or a client, or change your role, or a friendship is broken, or a series of circumstances bring about a major change in life—and that’s God at work?
Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Daniel, Isaiah, John, Paul, Timothy, Jesus… does the Bible, through its primary characters and events, give us examples of leaders, or does it actually teach leadership skills and principles?
We all face decisions daily, and periodically more serious ones, that require contemplation and consideration before action.
Your daily time alone with God and study of the Bible is the key to growing in leadership. Yet only 45% of Christians say they read the Bible “at least once a week”, while a third say they engage in the Scriptures “seldom or never”.
A recent study found that the average college graduate reads about one book a year. What about the average CEO? They’ll read 60 books a year. Reading gives the leader tremendous advantages beyond simple knowledge.
Leaders aren’t full of limitless energy. Go hard enough for long enough and you’ll run out of steam. You need to relax, refresh and recharge.
A table might not seem like a foundation for developing as a man, a husband, a father, a leader, but it is! Leadership is ultimately about your impact and influence on other people. At Friday Morning Men’s Fellowship we focus leadership development at a table.
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (1393 – 1468) was a German inventor of the moveable type printing press. Gutenburg’s printing press led to the explosion of knowledge through printed books during the Renaissance. Today he is regarded as one of the most important figures of the last 1,000 years.
The very first mention of a table in the Bible comes in Exodus 25. God is giving instructions to Moses about the construction of the tabernacle, the Jewish house of worship. God’s command was to build a specific type of table.
History books are filled with men who burned out, gave up, failed miserably or missed a critical opportunity because their leadership supply chain wasn’t working.
The Bible is the world’s best-selling book. It contains history, poetry, prophecy, woven in a profound narrative of the world from creation to present. And it is the foundational book on leadership.
God’s faithfulness is His reliability in doing what He has promised. In other words, we can count on God. In life and work filled with anxiety, disappointment, temptation, crisis, frustrations, hate, failure and adversity, we serve a God that we can rely on.
A Christ-centered man looks for instruction in how to live, lead, interact and influence. The Bible contains practical instruction for life, family and business. But what about the prophecy in the Bible?