Leadership: "Preparing for the Future" by Cliff Goodwin

April 19, 2024 - Friday 9:00AM MPR1 Speaker

 

Speaker: Cliff Goodwin

Looking at John Chapter 7.

 

³³ Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. ³⁴ You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”

 

We need to be teaching and preparing our children and grandchildren to be leaders.

"Our present leaders will not always be present"

1. Accept - We have to accept the mortality of our leaders and ourselves. But the lord's work continues.

• Joshua - Moses prepared Joshua to lead.
• 2 Kings - Elijah prepared Elisha

2. Avail - We have to avail ourselves to the present opportunities.

• John 12 - ³⁵ So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”
• Use it or loose it. Take advantage of what is available to you.
• Exodus 33 - ¹¹ Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

3. Admonish - "to put in mind" - We have to be deliberate on what we put in the minds of our young people.

• We need to gradually teach. As the audience grows so does the lesson. Look at John 16, Jesus does this with his apostles.
• We need to warn of possible dangers.
• We need to find those who aspire to be a church leader.

4. Aspire - We need to aspire for better.

• We need to have faith in God's word.
• We need to set goals.
• We need to strive for EMI, (every member involved).

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0KZJN6rxs

 

Duration 41:10