Archive | May 3, 2025

Leadership Training II

May3

Just a snapshot or two from our most recent Ministry Leadership Training session.

Here are a few take aways from today’s training session:

  • Gratitude: “Pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” I Thess. 5:17-18 Praise to God is the fruit of gratitude to God, it recalibrates in us to the reality of God’s sovereign control over all and it positions us to go deeper with the Lord. Gratitude is demonstrated in:
    • Affirmation – encourage those you serve with
    • Admiration – respect and approve the work of those your serve
    • Appreciation – edify and lift up other in the ministry
    • Action – do it with gratitude
  • Forgiveness – “*And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” Eph. 4:32. is a conscience deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person we serve with who has harmed us regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness. On the contrary, the sin of unforgiveness:
    • builds high and wide walls of isolation
    • leaves us separated from Christ’s cleansing
    • erodes away at the peace, joy and contentment we could be experiencing
  • Encouragement – “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.” I Thess. 5:11 Encouragement is contagious, it goes a long way in building up those we serve with. Encouragement is seen as:
    • Perserverance – longsuffering
    • Faith – trusting God
    • Hope – when things seem to be impossible
    • Gratitude – being thankful for the opportunities we have to serve
    • Joy – having fun in our service
    • Kindness –
  • Faithfulness – “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Col. 3:16

Other things Leaders consider:

  • Humility – Christ our example, “ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” Phil. 2:8
  • Love – love without hypocrisy, “ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” I Cor. 13:4-8
  • Accountability – “that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.” I Thess. 4:6

All these and more are The BereanWay in action