15 INSIGHT TO HELP YOU BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR LEADERSHIP IDENTITY.

15 Insight To Help You Better Understand Your Leadership Identity.

One of the questions posted to me constantly centered around the subject of leader development vs. leadership development.  Leader development has to do with the type of person God uses to accomplish His assignments at a point of time in history.  Leadership development has to do with the task itself.

1.Christian leadership always lives at the intersection of God, assignment, and a person.

2. Leaders in the Bible do not share common credentials…

3. There is no particular personality type that God singles out for leadership.

4. Leadership is all about following His leading and experiencing Him in the process.

5. The one who leads is no more important than the person who faithfully serves in obscurity…

6. It is not the position that adds value to us as people – we were created with value and worth.

7. We must avoid preferring competence over character…We tend to ignore character flaws and even sin in the life of a leaders because of his more worldly leadership skills…God never ignores or excuses sin

8. God gives us assignments and gives us the responsibility of leading others to implement that work.

9.  To be a leader is a sacred trust.The real irony is that God’s assignment involves changing your life as a leader just as much as they involve changing the people you want to reach.God’s assignments ultimately bring Him glory.

10.  Leaders should not be obsessed with or defined by the position they occupy but by the assignment they have been given and the contribution they are making

11. For a Christian leader, brokenness is a dear friend and pride is the enemy.Another common pitfall for younger leaders is the conceit of youth – the idea that tried-and-tested ideas and older colleagues are hopelessly out of touch and that new ideas are superior

12. There is always a gap between what you have and what God wants done…The only way you can accomplish the assignment is if He does it through you

13. Effective Christian leadership is sustained by surrender. When a Christian leader stops yielding to God, he or she ceased to be a Christian leader.

14. Your accomplishments are not a statement of your glory but of the grace, power, and glory of God Almighty.

15. The fact is that leaders are always in over their heads. That’s because God assignments are supernatural in nature and He gives those assignments.