Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 3 | PRACTICING CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP: EFFECTIVE WORSHIP LEADING / 315

Practicing Christian Leadership Effective Worship Leading

LESSON 3

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Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Recite the different ways in which leadership is a form of representation, i.e., representing the Lord, his person, his people, and his purposes in the community. • Give reasons why in leadership we do not represent our own purposes or interests in our lives and ministries, but the Lord’s purposes and interests in all we say and do. • Outline the importance of the role of worship in bringing glory and honor to God in the midst of his people. • Detail the importance of liturgy by worshiping God in the spirit, in truth, in order, and in faith. Learn How to Represent Read Luke 10.1-16 . In order to lead in a Christian way, you must never interpret your leadership in an overly personalized way. To lead is to represent another. This seems odd, but, after first glance, it becomes perfectly clear how this works. If you desire to lead others as a sergeant, you must be willing to follow the orders of the captain. If you reject the captain, you cannot order around privates, if you are a sergeant. The foreman on the factory floor must obey the department head, or he loses the right to lead those under him. The key to leadership is always submission. If you find a person who struggles with or is unwilling to submit to others, they forfeit the right to lead others. Christian leadership is representation. As our Lord Jesus Christ represented the Father in all that he said and did while on the earth, so we, following his example, represent him in all that we do. Christian leadership is about the authority of Jesus, and the one who is unwilling to follow Jesus loses all right to serve and care for the members of his body in their own leadership. What is interesting about this, is that it works also for those who respond to the leader. In other words, if you are truly representing the Lord Jesus, then the one who rejects your word is rejecting him, and according to Christ’s own testimony,

Lesson Objectives

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Devotion page 155 & 3

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