Church Planting Movements are acts of God, but it’s amazing how much mankind is capable of interfering with them. As with most of God's works among us, He allows us to actively cooperate with Him or become obstacles - consciously or unconsciously - to His desired purposes. Missionaries involved in Church Planting Movements have identified several very human courses of action that tend to obstruct, slow or otherwise hinder CPMs.
Even though we cannot create a Church Planting Movement, we can certainly work to avoid blocking their emergence. Here [is one] of the most prominent obstacles to Church Planting Movements facing missionaries today: Planting “frog” rather than “lizard” churches.
1. From Biblical Priorities to Non-Biblical Priorities: Valuing methods and traditions sacred as scripture
2. From Leadership to Management: The people expect to be managed and those that led now simply manage the people they have.
3. From Volunteers to Employees: Increased staff creates pressure to maintain levels of income
A humorous look at the Book of Acts in 3 minutes.
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Leadership style refers to the blend of a leader’s personality, temperament and shaping. Style reflects the preferences and roles leaders are most equipped to fulfill. By identifying leadership style, leaders can better understand their unique fit, and they can learn to value others’ roles and contributions.
Conflicts often occur because leaders do not understand or value other styles of leadership.
Leadership functions describe what all leaders must do or be responsible for as they influence their followers toward God’s purposes.
Leadership functions help you recognize and identify the essentials of a leader.
God intervenes throughout a leader’s life in crucial ways in order to shape that leader toward his purposes. Viewed from a life perspective, God’s intervention is intentional and purposeful.
Ephesians 2:10 reveals that each of us is God’s craftsmanship. He has made us and is shaping us for ministry that he prepared for us. When Christ calls leaders into ministry, He intends to develop them fully. Each of us is responsible to God for our own development and response to God’s initiatives in our lives.
Dr. J. Robert Clinton developed this definition for a leader: A leader is a person with:
God-given capacity, and a God-given responsibility, who is influencing a specific group of God’s people, toward God’s purposes for that group.
At the heart of biblical leadership is the capacity to influence God’s people toward God’s purposes.
