 Okay. So it's a Christian leadership. That's the topic. You know, leadership is a very fast topic. But we are going to focus on certain aspects of leadership. And like the title of the subject, it's Christian leadership. So how leadership, what of leadership in Christian ministry as a Christian leader, as a follower of Christ, we're going to be looking at all those aspects. So it's quite interesting. At the same time, you know, it's, it's quite practical. And what I must also say that, you know, some aspects of this, it will, you know, find better traction or in the sense, we'll be able to grasp it better. When we actually come to those places of putting it to being able to put it to practice, right? Because some of this could be just mere theory. Let's say, for example, if you're not leading a team, and then we are talking about, you know, how to lead a team and resolving conflicts in a team, etc. You know, so those, those things may not be, you know, we may not be able to have a very tight grasp of it, but, but I'm sure that, you know, these things will be really valuable. Right. So yeah, so let's start right away. So we're going to be looking at three sections. The resource, the notes, class notes are uploaded already in that classwork section. So you can download that. And eLearning students, it'll be there in the resource section. You can download that as well. Okay, so we're going to have three sections for this particular topic. We look at the introduction, what leadership is, what the term actually means. If there are any misconceptions about leadership, you know, we'll kind of address that. Then we go to section one, which is leading through time, which is going to be pretty interesting. And then we're going to look at the Lord Jesus as a leader, what did he do, and how what we can learn from his life and leadership. The second section is about people. You know, we understand that we cannot lead in a vacuum, right? It's going to be with people. We're going to be leading people, working with people. So, you know, how do we win with people, you know, winning with people? That's the second section. And the third one is about teamwork. You know, how do we work together as a team? So there are certain dynamics that we will encounter as a team and as someone who's leading a team. So we're going to be addressing that as well. So it is, you know, so these are we are restricting ourselves. When we look at this topic, Christian leadership to these broad categories. And within that, of course, there are some practical things that we will touch upon as well. Okay. So, so just wanted to understand, you know, from each of us, you know, the picture, what picture do you get when you hear the word leader or leadership? You know, is it a positive picture? Is it a negative picture? What is it that comes to your mind when you hear the term leader or leadership? Maybe we'll just take two minutes to talk about that. Anyone, you can either put it on the chat or you can unmute and, you know, share. What is it that comes to your mind first and foremost when you hear the word leader or leadership? Divya, welcome back. So probably Divya, you can start. Thank you. Thank you. First, glad to be back. Yes, I was just typing in actually. So when we say leaders, some some great leaders come to my mind actually, like Mahatma Gandhi, for example. And I was also thinking of Moses in the Bible, leading a multitude of people through such a long distance. Yeah. So, yeah, there are positive leaderships that we do see throughout in history. And those such kind of leaders are, you know, remembered for exemplary leadership. So it's good to even Jesus Christ. Yeah. So it is good to really look at them and see what they did differently. Right. So you mentioned two names, Mahatma Gandhi and Moses and obviously people who brought about change, a lot of change, who impacted a group of people. And yeah, interesting that you should mention, you know, two very, I don't know, different styles of leadership. If you, you know, if you'd like to do a case study on each of these personalities, right? Thank you. Okay. So Rosalind says one who sets an example for others to follow. Okay. And also leaders can be negative or positive. That's right. John Paul, a very positive picture walks with people in their thick and thin to reach the vision and goal. Okay. One who's with people who not only shows the destination, that's what John is saying. Not only shows, but also walks with them in order to reach the vision and goal. Okay. So, Jeff, now you put your hand up. You want to share something? Yes, Pastor. I remember a sermon by Dr. Miles about leadership. I think in the last semester, Pastor Paul actually suggested to hear this one. So yeah, so he used to say that our leadership is finding who we are and giving it for the people. So we have to find who we are and what we have created for our purpose. And this, we just have to give it and just serve this. So this was the best explanation that I've ever heard. And it really touched me because he actually gave the illustration of Jesus also in that he used to say that Jesus came as the Son of God and he gave his life. He gave his life as a random. So he knew he's the Son of God and he knew who he is. And he just gave himself as a, he just served by giving himself. So this is something yeah, wonderful. That's a very interesting definition. You find out in finding out who you are, like it means your call, your purpose, your gifting. And then you steward that to others. Success, you have something to say. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. A leader is a vision deliverance. Someone who can deliver a vision. We have rulers and we have leaders. Leaders are not many and not much. But a leader is the one who carried everybody along and showed them the path to way, positively. If we look at Moses as example, Moses was a leader. He hand over to Joshua was a leader. Elisha was a leader. David was a leader. Right. A leader always inquires from the Lord in the context of where should we go, what the next. But a ruler can look at Solomon as a case study. Solomon was a leader. So a leader will lead his people right and everybody will benefit. Praise God. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, success. Lubeiga, you want to say something? To me, I will start on the, I think leadership is all about doing good. So I will start by saying that a leader is a person who gets a God given vision. Number two, he identifies people who is going to go with along, provides necessary training tools and then gives them time to achieve a desired goal. Thank you. Wonderful. So so many different facets, you know, characteristics for a leader and leadership itself. And so we really understand that, you know, leadership is not really about titles or positions, right? When it comes to an understanding that, hey, it's not about, yes, of course, there is that formal authority or formal leadership that is vested on a person, you know, for a particular role. For example, you join a company, you are given a title and that title gives some description about the role and the function. And therefore, you are expected to be a leader within the scope of that role and function and carry out the responsibility. So that's a, there's a formal authority that is vested, right, a title which is given as a leader. While that is also true, but we also understand that one need not have a title while one need not have an official position in an organization to be a leader, right? And it's very important for us to understand that because, you know, when we look at the term leader or leadership, we can either identify, you know, identify with that. We can either approve ourselves or say, okay, I agree with that and also, you know, personally at a place we say, we can either disqualify ourselves and say, okay, I don't have these, you know, whatever you describe right now, okay, taking people vision, delivering vision, one who sets an example and, you know, one walks with people and then you realize that, okay, I don't have all this. So I, you know, so you, you know, one tends to disqualify, right? Okay, let's say you might say, okay, I'm not working or I'm, I'm a homemaker, you know, or I'm retired. So therefore, you know, I'm not a leader. And so, you know, whatever we look at in the course does not apply or, you know, it's, it's just going to be theoretical knowledge, right? Sometimes we might come to that conclusion because we disqualify ourselves and say, okay, I'm not a leader. But the more we look at leadership, the more we look at, you know, even into the word of God, we see that, well, leadership is not quite that. Okay, we see that leadership simply put, like John Maxwell says, John C. Maxwell, we refer to John C. Maxwell a few times in the past, a Christian leader, a pastor of a church, and then God moved him into this aspect of, you know, meetings and authoring books on management, on leadership, people skills, etc., right? So he says that leadership is influence. Leadership is influence. If we are not able to positively influence someone else, okay, or a bunch of people, or a group of people, then there is no question of them wanting to follow or wanting to do something together or reaching a goal together. So a very important aspect of leadership, excuse me, is influence. So we can, so John C. Maxwell repeatedly says, you know, leadership is influence. If you look at all the leaders who have marked history, we see that they have this important quality of influence, influencing the thoughts, influencing the lives, influencing the transformation, so many things, bringing about change, maybe social good, and uprising maybe to change something injustice, right? Or, as you look into the word of God, you know, we see that, okay, carrying out the mandate, or bringing about God's plans and purposes and into, on the earth, you see that one of the things is influence, like a big thing is influence. So it's about, if you would want to, you know, describe or define leadership, we would say that, okay, it is about being an influence for good. Let me just put that, it's there in your notes, but let me just put it on the chat again. So leadership is about God being an influence for good in people's lives. Okay, okay. An influence for good, like Rosalind said, leadership can be a negative influence, it can be a positive thing. Leaders can be negative, leaders can be positive, leaders can bring about a lot of, you know, a change which is negative or a change that is good. And so it's about being an influence for good. So when we talk about Christian leadership, it's about being an influence for the good of people. So bring about change in thinking, in behavior, and helping that individual or a group to reach, to accomplish their goals. So it's about being an influence for good, always for the betterment. So that is what, you know, we can consider as good leadership. So it's about being an influence for good in people's lives, which we see that in all the examples or the people that you quoted, you stated, being an influence for good. Good for what? To bring about change, to bring about change in in people's thinking, in their behavior, in whatever they are doing, so that there is transformation and come to a place of accomplishing certain things, individual accomplishments or collective accomplishment. So simply put, you know, we say leadership is influence. Okay. The second thing that we need to understand is, okay, we look at maybe our present situation, present condition, and when I said, we can say, okay, this is what I'm doing. So I am a leader, or this is what I've been asked to do. I've been given this title. So therefore, I consider myself a leader. Or we could say, I don't have all these things. I don't think I have influence. I don't think I'm really bringing about change in people's lives. So therefore, you know, I'm not serving anyone. I'm not doing that. So I'm not a leader. We tend to disqualify. Or we could even look at, you know, the whole, you know, the world outside and say, okay, leadership is for that person, for that person, ABC, but it's not for me. Right. I'm an individual. I tend to work with, you know, work by myself or do things by myself on my own. So, you know, I am not a leader. Right. But the interesting thing, the truth is that leadership, this quality or this gift, this characteristic of leadership is for everyone. Okay. So we're going to look at a few scriptures which really highlight this truth, that leadership is indeed not for a selective few. We could be leaders in different realms. Irrespective of what we are, what we are, because it's about influence. We are influencing some, always influencing some people for the good or for the bad. And intentionally, we could be doing it unintentionally. So we see that leadership is actually for all. Okay. While we know that it can be a specific thing, it can be a specific call. Like we described Moses. You know, there was a specific call. Moses, you will go, you will deliver my people from their bondage. He was called to do that. You know, he's, we could say he was officially given that title and position by the Lord. If you look at the five-fold ministry, we see that, yes, you know, God calls some people and they have been called to do certain things and in the body of Christ. And we see all that happening. So we know that, okay, there is a certain call, there is a certain official position. You look at, just one second, sorry. Yeah. So if you look at, let's say Romans chapter 12, Romans chapter 12, verses five to eight, let's maybe somebody can read Romans chapter 12, verses five to eight. Anyone? Romans chapter 12 verse five to eight. So we being many or one body in Christ and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them. If prophecy, let us prophecy in proportion to our faith or ministry, let us use it in our ministry. He who teaches and teaching, he who exhorts and exhortation, he who gives with liberally, he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness. Yeah. So verses five and eight talk about, okay, in the body of Christ, you know, we are one body and then we are different members, individually members, and we all have different gifts according to the grace of God, according to the call of God. So the instruction is, okay, as you have received these gifts, you use it. Okay, if it's prophecy, you prophesy in proportion to your faith, if it's ministry, serving, you serve, and if you're teaching, you teach, if you're exhorting, you know, do that, etc. And then it also, if you notice in verse eight, it says, he who leads with diligence. So we see that, okay, there is a gifting, and it's a grace which is given for people, for different people who are members of the body of Christ. So we understand that, okay, the five fold could be there, or a membership gift of those who are in the body of Christ, or maybe it's a specific thing that people have been called to do. Yes, we understand that. But being followers of the Lord Jesus, okay, each one of us, we are followers of the Lord, we are called by the Lord, and we've been commissioned by the Lord. Okay, now that includes everyone. That includes everyone who calls himself or herself a follower of the Lord Jesus, a disciple of the Lord Jesus. For each and every person who says, okay, I've accepted the Lord, and I'm a follower of the Lord Jesus, and the Lord calls and commissions. Okay, so we see this in the Great Commission, like Matthew chapter 28, verses 18 to 20, Matthew 28, 28 and verse 18, and Jesus came and spoke to them saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen. Okay, so the Lord gave this instruction, this commission to the disciples, and this is what he tells them. All authority has been given, so therefore, you go, you make disciples, you make followers of Christ. Okay, you teach them, you baptize them, you teach them, teach them to observe all the things that I've told you now. Now, how is that possible without, you know, without, of course, basic things like relationship and influence and so on, without the supernatural? How is that possible? But the fact is that this particular commission is for everyone who calls himself or herself a believer, a follower of the Lord Jesus. So the Lord is saying, okay, go, do this. So if you look at it, you see that each person is actually called to influence someone else. As believers, each of us, all of us, we are called to influence someone else for the sake of the kingdom, for the sake of the fact that Lord has called us to share the gospel, to win them over, to enable them to follow Christ, to teach them to that end. So we see that each of us have been called to influence at least one other person. And when we know, when we consider that, okay, leadership is influenced, and each of us are then called to influence. Maybe, you know, the call differs, right? Some of us could be called to just influence individuals, one person at a time, maybe, or maybe it's a group of individuals, maybe it's thousands, hundreds, thousands, whatever. But the fact is, each of us have been called to influence, go make disciples, go share the truth, teach them to follow Christ. So each of us have been given that authority. He says, I give that to you so that you will go and do it. So each of us have been commissioned to be disciples, to be soul winners. In other words, each of us have been called and given influence. Each of us have been called to be leaders. Okay. So logically, if you look at it, all of us are called to be leaders. The problem is this, you know, we have a picture of leadership. We have an understanding of leadership. Maybe we have our understanding is about titles positions. Maybe our understanding is about leadership in an organization, like a formal leadership. And then we say, okay, I'm not a leader, or you don't really take that seriously. Right. But the fact is that when we look at this, when we look at our great commission, we see that each of us, all of us have been called to a position of leadership. Okay. So now, you know, we can, we can consider each having considered each of us as leaders, you know, we can go forth and we can look at, okay, this is something that I need to take seriously. Okay. This is something that I need to develop. Okay. Maybe we might have a, we might have a different picture of leadership, right. I need to tell people what to do. Maybe, you know, I think it was a success, you know, talked about rulers and leaders and maybe we have that kind of a, you know, picture of leadership. I need to be able to tell people all the time what to do, what not to be done, instruction, et cetera. Now, you know, putting that aside, if you look at how Christ has called us, each one of us, to influence. And when we look at leadership as influence, have you been called to influence someone? And you ask yourself that question, have I been called to influence someone? Of course. Yeah. So I am called to be a leader. But what am I doing in terms of, you know, influencing others? You know, you might say, okay, I'm at, I'm at home, or I'm, I'm in the workplace. I'm morning to evening, I'm just doing this, or I'm in business, and I'm just doing this. But look at the people that you are connected with. Like, look at the people who are connected to you, whom you interact with. Recently, I was just reading about Susanna Wesley, you know, the mother of John Wesley, mother of, you know, this is a big family, I think, almost some 19 children. And, but it is said that she always found time to give individual attention to the children and to teach them the word of God, and to motivate them in the ways of God. And we know that John Wesley and Charles Wesley, you know, the brothers, how they took the gospel, you know, to the streets, literally. They took it to the streets and so much of reformation and change revival they brought about from that formal, you know, religious kind of a setting. They really made the gospel, the word of God, and the psalms they sang, you know, literally to thousands, right, and it was, and changed continents and God used them mightily. And we can trace back and say, okay, there were many, many influence, many people, many factors that God used, but you also know that God used Susanna, Wesley, in the early days and years to lay that foundation, to influence them very powerfully, to lay those seeds in their lives, right. So we can never take those things for granted. We could never, we can never, you know, brush those things aside and say, okay, it's, it's nothing, all these things matter, right. It is leadership and it is about influence. So we look at the lives that we are connected with, right. Maybe our understanding is, okay, I need to be doing this, I need to be, you know, looking at formal things, you know, that is important, of course, that calls us into that settings as well. But this is also something not to be neglected, right. So all of us are called to be leadership, to leadership, sorry, and leadership is for all. Okay, so we'll, when we come back after the break, we'll look at, we'll go and get into section one and we'll look at how did the Lord Jesus model leadership. Okay, so in his life and ministry, he did certain things which were revolutionary and so very radical, a very paradigm shift, you know, like a drastic change in the way the world would look at leadership, right. He brought about that kind of a change and the way he modeled it. So we're going to be looking at that when we come back after the break. So we'll take a 10 minute break, we'll come back by 10 a.m., right. Okay, thank you.