And with that said, why don't we all pray before we get into our lesson or teaching for tonight?

Loving Heavenly Father, I want to thank you so much for allowing us once again to assemble as your children.

We are very needy in the Department of understanding and wisdom, and we come to you

because you are wisdom. And as we listen to your words tonight, I pray that you would penetrate

all of our hearts and our minds in the deepest recesses of our souls that we can learn from

these words, take heed to them and apply them, and be better Christians and better stewards of our souls, that we can learn from these words. Take heed to them and apply them

and be better Christians and better stewards of your words and ways, and that we can just be a

witness to all that see us. So we thank you now for that, which only you can do, by the power of

your Holy Spirit, we pray. In the name of Jesus, amen.

All right.

So tonight, our study is going to be on biblical leadership qualities.

Now, that on the onset applies directly to pastors and teachers and elders and those

who lead in any part of the ministries of the church of any type. But in the end, it really

applies to us all as Christians because we never know when we may be called into that

leadership position. And by the way, we also lead in our own homes and also when we leave the

confines of our church building. So our anchor verse for this study will be coming from the book of Acts chapter 20

and verse 28. Acts 20, verse 28. And one of the reasons why we need to talk about this biblical

leadership is because again, no matter if we are currently serving in a leadership role in the church or not, we all need to know what this form of leadership looks like.

We need to know what these principal traits associated with this leadership.

That way we can one hold ourselves accountable and also those who are leading accountable.

So we need to understand what biblical leadership looks like in the Bible.

And I think that every single leader in the church, in every aspect of ministry, need to realize how important their positions are and how those positions are viewed in the eyes of the Lord.

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