EP 26 Leadership

The Iron Women

• Connection Card Question!
• Everyone is a leader in some capacity because everyone holds influence and impacts those around you
• As believers, we have been chosen to lead the lost world to the Lord
• Leadership is not limited to pastors, bosses, husbands or parents
• Leadership in motherhood
• The danger of getting “control hungry”
• If you don’t view yourself as the leader you are, you will release yourself from the responsibility that’s been placed on you as a leader
• Integrity: not perfection, but above approach as much as possible
• Integrity is proven character earned with longevity in leadership
• Pouring out of a full cup rooted in authentic relationship with the Lord privately
• Christian character is based on biblical principles, not just morals and ethics
• Leadership is an action in which one person guides those around them to move from one point to another
• Leading vs gifting
• The long game of leading in discipleship
• Turnover in ministry
• Our culture doesn’t breed trustworthiness
• Maintaining testimony in a community is hard to achieve but possible
• Be cautious of those who immediately pursue platform without first building equity and creating trust
• The humble leaders will understand the value of building equity in a community over position, power or platform
• Church culture is only as strong as its members
• How to keep yourself accountable in positions of leadership?
• Three levels: above you (mentors), beside you (peers) and behind you (followers)
• Seeing how poor leadership affects people
• A healthy fear of God
• Loving the leadership more than the leading
• All ministry is hard. Bigger ministries are harder.
• John Maxwell resources
• Leadership is difficult to navigate and can often lead to burnout.
• Michelle Myers “She works His way”, evaluating your tired
• Are you tired or are you thirsty?
• Doing good is tiring. And sometimes we need a nap.
• But a nap can only meet your physical exhaustion. Your thirst demands living water.
• Organization is key, even more so for those not naturally gifted in leadership
• Leaders have to do the hard things, make hard choices and have hard conversations
• Preventing burnout by equipping others to do the job
• Training others to be future leaders
• Relinquishing control is hard because those being trained won't always do things the way you’d have done them, doesn’t mean it’s wrong, it’s different and you have to choose what is worth correcting
• Balance in evaluation of both the good and bad of someone’s work
• The goal of leadership is not to be irraplaceable. You don’t want to be irreplaceable. That pressure isn’t healthy. You want to build a team of people that can come beside you and behind you to carry on the torch without a major overhaul or delay when you’re no longer there.
• How to counsel or rehab leaders with burn out?
• Leaders are human not God.
• Don’t place your leaders on so high a pedestal that when they fall off of it, you don’t fall away yourself.
• Always extend grace. But choices require consequences.
• Fun Cup Question!
• Contact us! Email us at [e-mail] and follow/share our Facebook and Instagram accounts @theironwomenpodcast