Empowering Leadership
Jesus calls each of us to be an influence for him. That’s leadership.
Our challenge is to use as much influence, as we can, for Jesus and the advance of his kingdom. Wherever you’re starting from, the Holy Spirit is able to empower you to become everything Jesus intends you to be.
Most of us don’t feel like we’re leaders, most of the time. However, Seventy-two believes leadership is influence and Jesus calls us all, every day, everywhere, to be an influence for Him, that makes us all leaders. The truth is wherever you are and whoever you’re with is listening to you and looking at your life and yes, being influenced by you. Why not join us, so we can learn from one another, to become more like Jesus in every element of our lives and become a bigger influence for Jesus.
Empowering Leadership Articles and Resources
Leadership in the Wilderness: Are you ready to stand up and be counted?
There has not been a moment in history, when the mission of God has not been at the centre of God’s purposes. Yinka Oyekan shared something along these lines with me recently and it’s stuck with me. It’s something I already wholeheartedly agreed with, as I imagine...
Leadership in the Wilderness: Am I willing to live in pursuit of the promised and preferred future of God?
Moses said to the Lord, ‘You have been telling me, “Lead these people,” but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, “I know you by name and you have found favour with me.” Exodus 33:12 Then Moses said to him, ‘If your Presence does not go...
Leadership in the Wilderness: Am I willing to ‘not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God’?
Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. Exodus 16:21 Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the...
Leadership in the Wilderness: Am I willing to move on from where I’ve previously settled?
On the face of it, it seems ridiculous to think of Moses ‘wandering in the wilderness’ for forty years, or is that just me? Apparently if they’d walked in a straight line it would be 5270.8 miles. Even today, even with a Sat Nav, that’s impossible, but forty years!...
Leadership in the Wilderness: Am I willing to embody what I’ve previously been unwilling to accept?
Exodus 3:7-14 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’ And Moses said, ‘Here I am.’ ‘Do not come any closer,’ God said. ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.’ Then...
Leadership in the Wilderness: Am I willing to uncover what I’ve previously tried to bury?
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand....
Leadership in the Wilderness: Am I willing to pay attention to what I’ve previously avoided?
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses...
A Journey in Missional Leadership: What are they hearing?
As I conclude my reflections over the past 25 years of missional leadership, I want to finally focus on a subject that I have become more and more convinced is essential in our desire to be Church with mission at its heart. It is the subject of communication. When I...
Marks of a Growing Church: Organization
Part 7 in our series from Alex Harris in which he helps us to explore the seven marks common to churches experiencing growth and summarises the series for us: Missed the first six? Catch up here.
Further, Faster … Or Fewer, Deeper?
My life during this pandemic has been like living on a pendulum. Challenges and opportunities, losses and gains, sorrows and joys. It’s neither one thing nor the other for long. I know I’m not alone, but hopefully the balance for you is tipping in the right direction....