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• Constant drill, practice, and exposure to appropriate skills • Recognition of gifts and strengths • Expert coaching and ongoing feedback Entrustment (3)

Equipping (2)

• Delegation of authority to act and speak on commissioner’s behalf

• Scope and limits of representative power provided • Formal deputization (right to enforce and represent) • Permission given to be an emissary (to stand in stead of)

Corresponding Authorization and Empowerment to Act

• Release to fulfill the commission and task received

Luke 10:1 (ESV) After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. . .

Luke 10:16 (ESV) “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

John 20:21 (ESV) Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

Appropriate Resourcing and Training to Fulfill the Call

• Assignment to a supervisor, superior, mentor, or instructor • Disciplined instruction of principles underlying the call

Commissioning (1)

The Fulfillment of

CONVICTION

the Task and Mission

Mission (4)

The

Revealed

Will of God

Leadership

As Representation

CHARACTER

Consent of

Formal Selection and Call to Represent • Chosen to be an emissary, envoy, or proxy

Your Leaders

• Confirmed by appropriate other who recognize the call • Is recognized to be a member of a faithful community

• Calling out of a group to a particular role of representation • Calling to a particular task or mission • Delegation of position or responsibility

Faithful and Disciplined Engagement of the Task • Subordination of one’s will to accomplish the assignment • Obedience: carrying out the orders of those who sent you • Fulfilling the task that was given to you • Freely acting within one’s delegated authority to fulfill the task • Maintaining loyalty to those who sent you • Using all means available to do one’s duty, whatever the cost

• Full recognition of one’s answerability to the one(s) who commissioned

CONSCIENCE

• Assigning new projects with greater authority Reckoning (5) Official Evaluation and

Reward (6)

• Formal publishing of assessment’s results • Acknowledgment and recognition of behavior and conduct

• Corresponding reward or rebuke for execution • Review made basis for possible reassignment or recommissioning

• Formal comprehensive assessment of one’s execution and results

• Judgment of one’s loyalties and faithfulness • Sensitive analysis of what we accomplished • Readiness to ensure that our activities and efforts produce results

• Reporting back to sending authority for critical review

Understanding Leadership as Representation: The Six Stages of Formal Proxy Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis Public Recognition and Continuing Response Review of One’s Execution