All to Him I Owe

Spiritual Leadership in the Home

The Greatest Obstacle to Spiritual Leadership

We left our discussion last week with this definition of spiritual leadership: “Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God’s agenda.” A prominent mistake that leaders make is to think that leadership is merely choosing what must be done. However, the great responsibility of spiritual leadership is not just choosing what must be done but figuring out what God wants done and then influencing others to do it. The great obstacle to spiritual leadership is a leader’s own agenda. He or she must be willing to lay down that agenda to pick up God’s agenda and do it.  

Just because I think it’s right doesn’t mean it is right.

Proverbs 12:15 “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.”

Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end                      thereof are the ways of death.”

Just because it feels right doesn’t mean it is right.

Proverbs 28:26 “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.”

Because God has said it is right, it is right.

A bumper sticker emerged a number of years ago that said, “God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” Every time I have seen that sticker, I have wrestled with the order of the statement. It should more appropriately say, “God said it, that settles it, I believe it.” God’s Word is not settled because I believe it; it’s settled because God has spoken it. The issue is whether or not I will believe what God has said.  What most of us face when it comes to spiritual leadership in the home is whether or not I am willing to lay down my agenda for God’s agenda. Am I willing to believe that God’s will and way is the right way? Before a leader can properly move people to God’s agenda, he must be convinced that God’s agenda is better than his own.

Learning – Psalm 18:30 “As for God His way is perfect.”

Pastor Ron