Father, where would we be without a foundation that is unshakable?

Jesus Christ, the great cornerstone.

So we bow before you and acknowledge that everything we've been hearing,

everything we've been singing has a foundation and we praise you, Father,, Son and Holy Spirit as a great foundation for a

conference a great foundation for the pastoral leadership and as a great

foundation for our lives. leadership and as a great I ask for your help now so that we who hear and I who speak

would be filled with the Holy Spirit of wisdom and a revelation and that we would

see what our calling is as Christian leaders in Jesus' name.

Amen.

You may be seated.

So my task is to speak on

so my task is to speak on leaders, the leaders of the church. I will build my church and

the gates of hell will not prevail against him. I'm going to do it through leaders.

And I would like to invite you into a five-step pathway into a biblical understanding of Christian leadership.

I'll summarize the steps and then we'll take them one at a time.

Step one, I'll try to show that it is God's will,

that there be leaders in all the churches.

Step two, I will try to formulate a definition

of Christian leadership, or what do they do, what do we do.

Third, I'll point to some biblical cautions

that Jesus and I want to raise about leadership.

Fourth, I'm going to zero in on what is it that makes leadership effective or successful or fruitful and finally

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