Category: Leadership

The demands on a leader are high… People need lots of attention, help, counseling, encouragement, etc. etc. The list goes on and on. But the people you lead are not your greatest legacy! They are very important. You will definitely have some kind of legacy with them. But your greatest legacy lies closer to home… your greatest legacy is your children.

Leadership at its most basic definition in just influence. Nobody on earth will be more influenced by you than your children. God has made them to learn from adults. He has given the responsibility of raising them to you. It would be a total shame to get to the end of our lives and look back and see successful work and fruitful ministry but to see failure in the raising of our own children. Make them a priority in your live, right after God and your spouse (in that order). Don’t put it off either. Before you know it they will be grown.

Here are a few “diagnostic” questions:
1) Are your children more or less likely to grow up and love God because of what they see in your life?

2) Are there areas in your life that you know need to be changed because your kids are watching?

3) How’s it going with your spouse? Do your kids see you being affectionate to each other?

4) Which is given a higher level of importance in your life: work, your children, or the community?

5) Did what you just read make you feel encouraged, discouraged, or angry?

Over the next several weeks, I am going to be writing about things I have learned as a leader. I have to start with this truth… GOD NEVER CHANGES. Starting a church has been a great experience for me. It’s also been extremely difficult. I’ve experienced lots of joy, lots of pain, disappointment, excitement, etc. The list could go on forever. As I think back, I realize something once again. He never changes. People change. Sometimes they get better. Sometimes they get worse. Sometimes they join the church. Sometimes they fall away. But through all of this, God never changes. We can count on him. We can rely on him. We can trust him. He is a rock. Deuteronomy 32:4 says ” He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.”

As a leader, the most important thing you can do is to have a relationship with God. Because he never changes, that relationship then becomes the bedrock of your life. During the difficulties of leading the fact that he is a rock will sustain you.

We may be shaken, but he is unshakable!