Practicing Christian Leadership, Mentor's Guide, MG11

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F. The Christian leader as God’s physician ultimately turns over to the person the privilege and responsibility of their own care: the need for surrender .

1. Regardless of how much you care for others, you cannot live their lives for them; everyone will receive in their lives what they have done.

a. 2 Cor. 5.10

b. Gal. 6.7-8

c. Eph. 6.8

d. Col. 3.24-25

2. Granting others the right to their own decisions corresponds to God’s gift of limited freedom to us (e.g., the father in the story of the Prodigal son), Luke 15.11-32.

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3. If we do not recognize our limits we can become micro-managers and manipulators of what others do.

a. We are not the final judges of anyone; only the Lord commends or condemns, 1 Cor. 4.5.

b. All will receive in this life and the age to the come the fruit of their own decisions, Rom. 2.5-10.