 Okay, good morning, everyone. Welcome to a new week. Hope you had a great weekend Right, let's begin this time with a word of prayer and we'll start with the lesson Shri Kumar, is it okay if you can please lead us in prayer? Sure, Pastor. Thank you Precious father. We thank you praise you on you for this wonderful morning Lord, we thank you Father God for your divine wisdom and grace which is which you are revealing Which is which you are pouring upon us for God. We pray that father Prepare our heart for not master Receive every word which is going to come through the through the mouth of your servant to God Anoint him not master and let every word let it identify our our spirit man Let it strengthen our faith or Lord master and let we able to move further We thank you Father God that you are answering our prayer in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you Right. So last week we completed chapter 12. We looked at strategic partnership This week we'll go to chapter 13, which is a very interesting topic, which is leadership now Leadership is something that we can see in every aspect of our lives you it may be a Organization with just 10 people or even a ministry with 10 people Leaders is something that is developed over time right leadership The first thing that comes to our mind is influence right They're able to influence others right Another word that comes to our mind when you say leadership is position right or authority now There are different You know kinds of leaders that we can see around us right that are with different temperaments different styles now every leader has different qualities right And so the bible is going to teach us several principles right on how you and I can Be good leaders and become better leaders right now. I'm sure that all of us right Wherever we are we don't want to be in the same place We want to grow we want to develop ourselves Now if you look at ministry also, you know used to be start off small we say okay, let me serve in these areas and you want to you know Study the word Pray seek God ask God to open doors and God is a God who wants to bless his people his children And you know increase them Remember in the whole of the Old Testament After the people of Israel came out of Egypt. God said I want to bless you. I want to lift you up Right there are verses in Deuteronomy. He says you'll be the head and not the tail Meaning I will give you a position right so this chapter is very interesting We're going to be talking about and learning essential principles on leadership Now we have good leaders. We have average leaders. We have excellent leaders. We have poor leaders Right and so the biblical principles that we're going to learn today is going to help us to be excellent leaders right, so I'm on page, I think it's page 108 chapter 13 Leadership right so let's go point by point. You have questions. Feel free to stop me and ask questions as well right so first point If you don't see it, you cannot lead people into it Right, let's read Matthew chapter 15 and verse 14 Matthew 15 verse 14 Yes, could anyone please read that? Matthew 15 and verse 14 Okay, it says Let them alone They are blind leaders of blind And if the blind leads the blind both will fall into a ditch Yes, amen. Thank you. Thank you. Now. It's interesting that this is what Jesus is telling his disciples. He's saying Uh, he's talking referring to the Pharisees and the leaders in the synagogue in the temple saying let them alone leave them be they are blind leaders leading the blind And when a blind leads a blind they both will fall into a ditch Now we know that Jesus was not talking about the physical blindness, but they were spiritually blind They did not see Jesus as the Messiah But they were still, you know Doing the things of going to the temple offering sacrifices doing all of that But they were spiritually blind and so in Jesus here saying blind he meant that they were spiritually blind right and The reason they didn't have a vision. They didn't have the foresight to see that Okay, this is the Messiah He is the Messiah that we've been waiting for now. It's not like the others didn't see it Right. Many others saw that Jesus was the Messiah by now. Jesus already had his disciples Many of them pledged allegiance to Jesus. They said yes. He is the Messiah But here Jesus is referring to the Pharisees and and the Sadducees who are already in leadership and he's saying They are leaders, but they are blind leaders. They don't see the things of God And if a blind leader, you know leads other people They they both will fall into a ditch It's a blind leading the blind Right in judges 21 25 it says in those days There was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in their own eyes picture that Old testament they've come out And everyone are doing what they feel right in their own eyes There was chaos. There was no leadership That's when the people said give us a leader. Give us a king. Give us a king It was not God's real intention to do it But because they kept asking give us a king. Nothing's going right God gave them a leader Now leaders are able to influence people Right leaders Have a vision. They need to be able to see the vision in their mind's eye Right leaders provide vision for the future. They provide direction. They provide You know leadership qualities to help You know reach that goal Leadership requires the ability to see the future And envision what is the outcome? Right, so we may be in a in a ministry maybe Maybe some of us may plan to start your own ministry after bible college or even now God has chosen you to be a leader. Remember this Leadership requires the ability to see the future and envision it In its outcome Right, I'm sure we've all read many testimonies of many pastors and you know leaders who who they started with nothing probably two three people and But what was it that they were able to yes, that is the spiritual side of you know Praying seeking god building yourself in spirit all of that is true But there is also the aspect of a leader seeing okay now it's 10 people in a small hall But 10 years from now I'm going to see 500 or thousand people sitting in a bigger hall But right now there's just 10 people Now if we don't see it in our minds eye if we don't envision it We don't you know declare that vision and work towards that vision We will be we are blind Right a leader without a vision is blind Right, so always remember you may be some Somebody who's just a cell group leader also But you need to apply this see your cell group in a place where you know You know, I want to see miracles. I want to see signs and wonders happening Maybe there's just 12 15 people in the cell group, but you want to see the things of god happening You're envisioning it You're envisioning people coming in people from other faiths coming and accepting the lord jesus as their personal savior When you see that as a leader It's wonderful Right your eyes are open and you'll begin to work towards it I remember when we came to mangalore Uh, you know, I was reading the book spiritual leadership. I Forget his first name, but it's j oswald spiritual leadership is a wonderful book and uh I had read it earlier on but I just you know, I was trying to refresh my Memory and reading that again And we were again, you know 10 12 people I remember visioning the church having, you know Maybe about 60 70 people in a year or 100 people in two years Uh, but they were only so probably eight 10 people I said we will work one day it will be full Right one day we will see those chairs filled up Uh, but it's a process right so you We can't sit and keep thinking about it and do nothing right we look at other Attributes also in leadership, but very very important I have a vision Uh, even even for your family, right? Uh, you know, I have two little boys one is six and one is four Every day we pray in the morning and Uh, and I pray over them and I say one day I want to see them You know serving the Lord whatever they want to be, uh, you know In their carry or so or whatever path they take that's uh, it's okay, but whatever they are doing I also want to see them serve the Lord Right now and and so I keep you know all of us. I'm sure all of us do this So we keep telling our children. Okay, do this. This is something that is good This is what you know, we this is why we believe in God. This is what Jesus did for us They keep explaining it to them. We keep showing videos to them Uh, and what are we doing? We are raising them up Uh, to have a vision to have to build leadership qualities in them right second point Maintain proper hard attitudes Now it's easy to you know, uh, it's good to have a vision and you say, okay This is what I want to do But in that process we may End up having wrong attitudes Right, uh attitudes of the heart is very important as a leader right, let's read Matthew chapter 20 25 to 28 Matthew 20 25 to 28. Yes. Could one of us please read that? Uh Matthew 20 25 to 28 So Jesus got them together to settle things down. He said you observe how godly how godless rulers throw their weight around How quickly a little power goes to the heads It's not going to be the way you the way with you Whoever wants to be the great must become a servant whoever wants to be the first among you must be your slave That is what the son of man has done He came to serve not to be served and then to give away His life in exchange for the many who who are held hostage. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Abinas right, so jesus is Talking to his disciples here again. He said he got them together settled them them and he said He knew that you know, these disciples are going to be leaders soon when i'm gone And so he was preparing them. He's saying now you've seen the leaders in the world you have seen Probably the Pharisees the Saturday you see how how godless they are They are throwing their weight around How a little power goes into their head which you know the message translation is Very very elaborate says, you know, they throw their weight around Hey, i'm a leader That that kind of an attitude and how a little power goes to their head Right, they keep telling themselves i'm a leader i'm a leader Right, and and it in a wrong way in a wrong attitude it goes into their mind But what did jesus follow that upward? He's saying so much so it's not with you You all are going to become leaders and When you become leaders remember this you must be a servant Right Whoever among you wants to be a leader first become a servant first you should be a slave Because the son of man has come not to serve people but to He not to be served but to serve people So leadership is about not just authority position, but it's about serving people Right, and we're going to look at three heart attitudes of godly leadership right Three heart attitudes of godly leadership First one is servanthood You know the lord jesus He was you know, he so many places he expressed his leadership qualities In a servant like attitude Right By now By the last supper jesus has already Gained a lot of fame People know who jesus is. He's a wonderful man. He's healing people He's a leader thousands of people are following him All of that didn't go into jesus's head Right What did he do? He said get ready for the last supper And then he meets his disciples and he washes his disciples feet As a sign of servanthood as a sign of humility to say that Even though I'm the son of man God in flesh Even though people look up to me with very high regards and high standards They have a lot of respect and honor for me But as a leader I want to keep myself humble And have this attitude of a servant Right He serves the people he leads Right. He serves In humility in meekness In sacrifice And the lord jesus set the perfect example The lord jesus served people in humility meekness Sacrifice and service Now I want to be careful. I want to also explain this part Now being a servant and being Humble and meek is not only you know just folding your hands or whatever you say I will do That's not what it is Yes, it's a hard attitude You don't have to go front of people and say oh, you know, uh, whatever you say I will do You know, uh, I'm a humble person. No, we don't have to do all of that right as leaders There's this balance that we have to find where we say, okay Certain things need to be done And we get those things done as leaders. We work towards it And there's also this place of You know being a servant Right walking in humility now if there are people in your team who are Not performing on a regular basis underperforming We looked at it in the previous chapters as well as a leader. You can't say oh, I'm a servant. I've come to serve people So, uh, you know, you can't call that person and say, you know what? I'm a servant leader So, you know, please do your work properly if you don't do the whole team will be no, that's not what we what we meant Um, we see the lord jesus in many places when people didn't accept him He didn't go and say please come into my team. No He just moved away. He just walked off. We looked at people who accepted him. So Servanthood is a hard attitude. It's not an exterior external, you know Attribute of saying, okay, please can you know? So as leaders, we should find that balance Right of how to handle people and even as we read read the word read books on leadership listen to sermons We can understand and even when we put our hands to the plow Take on leadership roles. We will learn About this right where we can balance it out say, okay I I want to be serve as a servant as well but also there's this responsibility Of behaving like a leader second one is passion A leader must be passionate about the vision and what the organization stands for right How how is it expressed? It's expressed through enthusiasm. It's expressed through You know and demonstrated through hard work the ability to stay focused to the vision And remember enthusiasm is something that is contagious Right, it inspires others. It energizes others it And and it's very important as leaders to keep that fire burning to have that passion Right, uh, let's read romans chapter 12 11 and 12 message translation Romans 12 versus 11 and 12 Yes, any one of us Roman 12 11 and 12 Do not burn out. Keep yourselves fueled and flame and aflame We are let savings of the master carefully expectant Don't quit in hard times pray all the harder Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now here the words don't burn out doesn't Refer to the you know the the literal term that you know, we use nowadays which is you know being stressed out and burnt out You know, sometimes we say no, I'm just feel a burnout Uh, you know too much of work and feel a burnout. No, uh, this is more of Don't burn. Don't let that vision to burn off Right, uh, keep that vision fueled aflame Uh, be cheerful and when hard times come don't quit. Now, let me give you this example imagine You know, we have a there's a church ministry right and we have Maybe vibrant leaders Sorry, you have vibrant youth in the church, right and these youth are you know when the worship time comes They like to dance. They like to express themselves in worship. They like games You know, they like to be involved in church activities every time friendly talking, you know, you got vibrant youth in a church Now as a leader imagine I appoint somebody a youth leader to oversee them imagine I appoint somebody who doesn't like games Who doesn't like to talk too much? right or somebody who's you know always quoting bible verses Uh, or somebody who's you know, uh saying no no during worship. You should always, you know Close your eyes and you should stand and you should pray prayerfully worship the lord imagine I appoint that kind of a leader for these youth One of these two things will happen one is the youth will leave and find a church where they can express themselves And be themselves to the youth who don't leave will become like the leader All of a sudden they don't like to dance. They don't like to enjoy the worship. They don't like to express themselves They don't like youth meetings. Why because the leaders like that So it's very important as leaders to be passionate You may say, okay, how long to be passionate How long should I be passionate about this? I'm doing the same thing over again refuel Refuel ask God to refuel fan into flame That vision right you may be doing it for 10 years You say, oh man, it's getting monotonous refuel say hey as a leader. I have to energize myself I have to refuel. I have to make sure the fire is burning and only then Can my team experience What I you know fulfill the vision of the organization If I burn out and if I say I I'm tired everything's gone monotonous That how's my team or my youth members going to you know, uh catch the vision Imagine this you you know, you're in a phase of a burnout and then you have some You know 10 young youth youths come into the church Say, hey, why is this man the youth pastor like this? Or why is the youth leader like this? He's so dolly so They're not going to catch the vision Yes, Elisha has a question How does passion and leadership express itself? Yes. It's a good question. So, uh Elisha some of the ways that it expresses itself is you So for example, uh, you can always Remind the the team members. So you express it by saying, hey, I know we're going through a tough time I know we're going through a hard season a lot of work ahead But be encouraged because we're fulfilling this vision Right. You're all part of the success We're all going together Forward. So one thing is you're you're giving those talks energizing them, you know, our words are powerful Bible teaches us. So, uh, one of the ways That a leader can express passion is to have that you know, uh, those maybe meetings and say, hey I know everything's looking dull. Maybe some of you are feeling low Uh, you know, sometimes the weather is not suitable for working But as a leader, you can have those meetings and say, hey, we're all in it together Come on. Let's you know encourage ourselves a pep talk can really do so much. I remember the Uh, when I was working in the it sector Uh, we had one very energetic man Uh, he was not even a leader, but he was always smiling always happy So they said you come and just give us all a pep talk. I said he would come. Okay. Come on guys, you know Uh, we're gonna start off this day Don't look at the weather. Don't look at what you had for breakfast And he will all give us, you know in his talk. It was not like he was you know, uh, he was just, you know Making us all joyful He would crack a couple of jokes in between and say, hey, you know what this is what the vision is So we used to all of a sudden there was this, you know, we go back back to our work to our cubicles You know, the first thing that comes to our mind is hey, this guy Then this is some kind of a Joy, okay feel. Okay. Let's work. You know, we've come here to work Uh, so one of the ways is through talking and meeting see meetings where you can energize them Yes, Elijah. Go ahead Thank you very much Pesta I am concerned with the passion of leadership because of a tactical challenge that I would say I am having with a leader. I am working with and you see we are different people We are different people of different temperaments So some of us our temperament are such that you wouldn't see us always talking always With this outward looking yet we calmly and In a very cool way get the things that are supposed to be done. They we get them done We get them done excellently and I am currently working with a leader who Who thinks that who sees that? um As a youth you must always be on fire. You must always be this with a youthful exuberance Which not all of us can be that because of our individual temperamental differences Yes, I If you happen to work in leadership and you don't appreciate Some of these differences in persons And you want the people to be like you What are some of the consequences that the whole team is likely to to suffer? Yes. All right, so Elasha, I just want to You know just say this now As leaders we do want our people to be like us Right, we don't want them to be exactly like us. We are not You know, one of the things that we always say in apc is we are not Reproducing the same kinds why because we all have like you said elasha we all have different temperaments We all have you know, some may be energetic some are very quiet But they get the work done Right, some of them who are energetic and always, you know, joyful every time they may not get the work done Maybe some of them are like quiet, but they get the work done and they're perfect in their work They do it really well So during those times, right? One of the things that we can do is uh, you know Firstly, we we don't want, you know, there are people who are You know, they feel, you know, they they are not expressive in their nature. They're just very quiet One of the things we can do is individually talk to them, you know, ask them Are things all right with you? But most most likely that you know, they by nature, they are like that, right? They just shy or the introverts They don't want to you know jump around and shout and scream or talk too much But they like to work As long as they're able to hold that vision and they feel that, you know, uh, I'm in this vision It's all right Right. So here's the thing in leadership Remember the Lord Jesus? He had 12 people all 12 of them had were different You know, Peter's short temper Your John and James is saying can you give me uh, let me sit on either side Of you once you go to heaven Then you've got uh, Judas saying don't use that money for this You know, you've got all kinds of different people so So elasha Like we what we saw on point one. Yes leaders are able to influence people But leaders are not reproducing the same kind But I don't want to create, you know Raise up a leader who's exactly like me Yes, do exactly what I do. If I'm joyful, he should be joyful If I'm sad, he should be sad. No, no But as leaders we have the ability to influence. So where we can say, hey, uh, you know, this person is You know, maybe somebody who is very quiet I don't really talk much but I'm able to when I able to influence him and say that hey You know, you're working for this vision. Here's the bigger vision and And they continue to be quiet and all of that the bigger purpose is fulfilled, right? But you know There's they're not upset with you. They're just the way they are So that in those ways elasha, I would say Just leave it, right? Let them be as they are But the moment you see that they're not doing well, they're very quiet Then you know that something's wrong. If you feel that, you know, uh, they're not performing. They're underperforming or, uh, you know They have a problem with somebody in the team. They're not talking to somebody in the team Then those are things that we have to deal with but if you see that They're quiet yet. They are happy. They're working well Then you don't have to worry about it because we can't change people's You know nature. That's how god made them. That's how they are So as leaders, we need to you know, just find out those aspects, right? Uh, one-on-ones will really help as well I hope that answers your question elasha Yes, yes, thank you So even in our church, right? We have a lot of youth um, I remember this there's this There are some youth who are very energetic So there was this two three boys who came and they were oh, we will clean the church We will do this and they were only a couple of Sundays I saw them. I said, okay. Nice young guys. They're very happy to be at church But they were jumping all over the place trying to do everything Uh, after a month they sobered down They just come they said and uh, of course they still like to come to church and But there are some who are very quiet. They do everything And they don't You know, there's this young man. He he plays the drums in our church, but Very quiet. He doesn't talk to anyone, right? Like he talks only if you talk to him That's how he is like even his parents say that's how he is I don't know what to do But he's a very good boy, right? He would come early. He would open the church. He would clean everything Set the chairs put on the sound system and he would just sit quietly Right very quiet. He'll be there for all the meetings He'll be there for all the youth meetings and you know everything. He's there bible studies But very quiet But he had a passion for god Only if you talk to him he will talk as he doesn't talk That's his nature. So, uh, you know, so you'll find people Like that, especially among youth and even uh, you know older folks as well So as leaders we are we we must, you know, have that ability to okay make sure that, you know, everything's Whether they're happy whether they are, you know, working towards the vision their life is all right So, uh, yeah Abraham says pastor, please do we look at their ability to get the job done Without giving excuses, right? That's a good question Abraham, uh Yes, looking at the ability of getting the job done is very important but Uh, see sometimes there there could be reasons as to why things could be done Uh genuine reasons. I so for example, uh, you know, there's a somebody in the sound and setup team and he's been Asked to, you know, come early morning and set up the equipment Uh But he doesn't turn up one Sunday morning and the reason is maybe he lost a loved one in his home So that's a genuine, uh, you know, we can't expect him to come and do sound and set up when he's lost some A loved one in his family, right? But then Uh, you see repeated Uh excuses, right? Uh, rather than valid reasons Uh, some of the excuses say oh pastor night. I went out Uh, you know, I was with my friends on Saturday night Oh, we were at home. We were, you know, just having a good time. We slept late Um, my alarm didn't ring Uh woke up. It was already eight o'clock in the morning and that's an excuse Right, of course you give them all chances, right? Uh, I'm sure Tarun will Tarun was part of our, uh, you know leadership and I'm sure he'll have many, uh, you know Uh, Tarun, you want to pitch in any examples on this? You know, many times people will have different kind of excuses uh But Yes, firstly we look at their ability, but if the excuses go on and on and on That means their heart attitude is wrong Right, uh, like like we see right in the second point leadership is about hard attitudes proper hard attitude of this person He doesn't want to say no, I don't want to do this You know, I don't want to volunteer in this area. He doesn't want to make the leader feel bad but He's giving excuses. He or she is giving excuses continually Uh, then we ask them to step down because it's of no use just having that, you know A ship a position and not doing anything about it Right and there are times there'll be genuine reasons. Uh, that is okay. It's valid So Abraham my answer to you is yes We have to first look at the ability the inability as they're getting things done Now another thing could be also you can appoint leaders and train them on that Right depending on the task. Now, for example, you've got a couple of Young people they join church. They say hey, I want to You know be part of the PPT team right Uh, you know, just just be serving in the PPT team Now we can say we can't say no, you're not you don't know how to honor laptop. How can you know, we we just teach them It's not It's not big You know, it doesn't need a big understanding maybe two hours and they'll be able to do it all by themselves So you give them a simple training get them to you know, serve in that area as well But there are areas like in the worship team, right if you They need to be skilled to get into that area and Uh, yes, so giving excuses continually is something wrong, but valid reasons Every now and then that's all right. Like you You see the bigger picture, right? I hope that answers your question, Abraham Yes, thank you Thanks, Abraham Right. So let's go to the next one. The first one we saw was servanthood Second one was passion third one is self control the Self-control is the ability to be self-governing Demonstrated through self-discipline and self-restraint right The ability to be self-governing demonstrated through self-discipline And self-restraint a leader does not have anyone checking on him all the time So we must be able to have self-control. We must be self-governing now for example You have started a ministry or you're you're the one who is in leadership of a certain position of a certain team Nobody's checking on you right Nobody's saying as a leader. What have you done? You know, nobody's going to come and check on you, right? So it's very important that the leader keeps a check on himself His time his work his habits his productivity his interactions with people All of this is important right first Corinthians chapter 9 and verse 27 uh This is what the great apostle paul the greatest of the christian leader says right first corinthians 9 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection lest When I have preached to others I myself Should become disqualified. So paul is You know He's done. I would say he's done everything right up to now says but I Myself I discipline my body so that and bring it into subject so that when You know, I myself have preached the gospel so much But it shouldn't be that I have preached it and I have only I have been disqualified from this whole Uh, you know place that god has for me Right. So he's saying I need to have self-control. I need to be also look at my life I keep preaching to others and if my life is not right, what does he use? I mean they get the reward. I'm not going to get any reward because I'm just preaching it but You know, nothing's happening to me. There's no change in me Uh Proverb 17 27 says he who has knowledge Spays his word and a man of understanding is of calm spirit A man of understanding is of a calm spirit Self-control, you know, sometimes we may Want to just scream and say I'm done with this No, maybe in the workplace you say, oh god, it's been 10 years. I just want to How do I get out of this? Right And that's when we need to exercise this ability of self-control like to be Self-restrained to be self-disciplined and say, okay It's just a phase. It's just a season that we're going through as an organization As a leader. I'm going through the season I'm going to trust god uh Proverbs 29 11 A fool events all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back so true A fool when so all his feelings imagine a leader goes Uh, you know, and he he's just so upset. He's stressed Family issues and now he's got this team that he has to handle and he goes to his senior leaders And he vents out all his feelings to them And the manager say, okay, so Then why don't you step down from the role and we have a new leader available? What is going to happen? Just because of that moment or that Maybe a week or that season that he's going through he went to went throughout all his feelings Now the leadership thinks he's not You know, we can choose better leaders who can do better than him He not only is in a place of You know, he's lost his respect, but he's also in a place where he's disqualified from leadership So we need to have the ability of self-control. There'll be times in pastoral ministry as well Or even in as leaders in the church Uh people will come back to you on and on and you know, they'll be sharing things with you They may repeat a lot of things But you know as as leaders we have to develop the ability to say, okay We come You know, sometimes we may feel hey, how many times are you saying the same thing to me? Why are you repeating the same thing again and again? We must understand that You know, they are going through something in life. We also are going through certain things Right, uh, but we must have that ability to say Uh, okay as a leader, I have to Listen, I have to make myself available for them I have to have self-control But uh james 1 19 and 20 says remember this my dear friends. Everyone must be quick to listen But slow to speak and slow to become angry Human anger does not achieve god's righteous purpose So these three attributes first one servanthood Walk in a servantlike attitude second have that passion always burning in us third self-control Let's go to the next point Which is maintain proper people skills, right now Leadership is about people, right? We're it's about planning direction responsibility decision-making raising up other leaders And and making and encouraging other people to follow you And leaders need to have a strong human side of their skills, right? Of course, there's this genuine interest genuine compassion Uh is important, but Remember people are not robots people are not machines people are not, you know, just people You know machines that you set. Okay 8 to 5 today go do your work. That's not how it is Working with people we need to be sensitive We need to understand their challenges understand their perspectives Uh inspire people lift up people leaders celebrate other people The great apostle paul did that so many times he said I have what does he say to timothy? He says my My my brother he says in one place my co laborers in christ Now timothy was about 17 years old and paul was well advanced in the ministry He's seen these big visions and he started off his first missionary journey He's been advanced very matured in christ timothy is just 17 years old now Very interesting paul doesn't say timothy. Ah timothy and you know timothy is here also Uh, you know, I picked him up when he was 17 He he honors timothy and he says timothy My uh, he's a core laborer with me paul does not say timothy is here who is uh, you know Doing all the tasks that I've been asked him to do under my leadership. He doesn't say all those things He just says timothy My core laborer in christ timothy my brother in christ Right or then he starts the book of timothy episode timothy timothy my son He always refers to him with so much of respect. He celebrates the life of uh, timothy Anyway, look at thaitis. Look at all the other people if aphrodite is paul celebrates them remember john mark the one who Was in the first missionary journey and uh in the middle when they reached Galatia and he said no, no, I can't take this. I'm going to go back He goes back And paul gets so upset that in the second missionary journey paul and barnabas had to part ways But in the end of his ministry paul writes and says bring john mark to me He's of great help to my ministry so we see that as leaders apostle paul celebrated people And we are to celebrate people's success the way they've worked honor them celebrate them Uh rewards and recognitions are some things as organizations that we can give our people even in ministry give it to people I'd honor them for their work celebrate them All right, and it really helps them. It will really help the organization uh next point If the head is not right the body won't be right Now if the leader is not right The head is the body will not be right now here Just looking at the uh analogy of a role of a head to a human body if the head I've got a cup here right here next to me If my head Doesn't send the signals to take that cup I'm not going to take it Right, but if right now if my head tells me sends me signals. Hey take the cup. So I take the cup right If the head is not right the body is not going to function So, you know people who are You know unable to do certain things um physically Not everyone right i'm just giving an example so Somewhere if something is wrong, they're not able if body doesn't function properly Right so If the head malfunctions The rest of the body is affected and sometimes it is Incapacitated that means there's no capacity in it If the leader is not right his motivations is not right his decisions his actions his leadership qualities his hard attitudes are not right The same kind of people will be developed or same kind of Wrong kind of people with wrong ideas will be raised up So if the head is not right the body won't be right If you have a leader who's always gossiping and talking behind other people's back talking about other Ministries condemning other ministries. What's going to happen? The church will be filled with people who are gossiping And condemning people it's going to just pass on why our leader is doing it So and we will do it Right the head is not right the body won't be right right Yeah, we've run out of time So uh, we'll stop here. We'll pick up this from uh tomorrow and we look to complete this chapter on leadership Right, uh, so let's just close in prayer Maybe Can you please close and prayer for us? Thank you Thank you lord father. We look to you god father. We thank you You are a faithful god father. We thank you. You are our model of father jesus father As we go through this lord made speak to us throughout our day our father made become lord Our routine of father made flow in us of father jesus so that we will Represent you well of father. We will not be a perfect lord example of You a father jesus that we will love people that we will be a good leader of father following The passion of father jesus having lord your All right attitude of father and we also pray that all our inhibitions will leave us a father that we will be Uh, we will glorify your name of father. We thank you jesus. We thank you for our teacher of father blessing us Thank you for imparting us may your name be glory for jesus name Amen, amen. Thank you Prabhakar. Thank you everyone. Have a great week ahead. Uh, anyways, I'll see you tomorrow. God bless Thank you pastor. God bless you