How do we get that passion that exists in us to infiltrate those we lead?
Church leadership is unique. People don’t come to follow you. They come to follow Jesus. They came to follow Him, but they get stuck with you.
#1 You have to make sure your leadership comes from a divine place.
We cannot be clones when it comes to passion. It’s not about mimicking other people. People will get tired of following a cheap copy of a great original.
Success is not maintaining. People follow people who move, people who take action, people who take risks. I need a sense that I’m on a mission that’s bigger than me. Make sure the passion doesn’t get diluted or polluted as it flows down.
When God gives you people to work with you, they are assets right out of His treasure chest. When God gives you people, He’s given you something He really cares about.
#2 Make sure that the team around you delivers on the promise that you projected.
Passion is not emotionalism. Passion is the fuel that makes the engine go. Passion is the force behind it, the intensity. I’m not asking you to be emotional. There’s nothing wrong with being emotional. There’s something wrong with being led by your emotions, but there’s nothing wrong with being emotional. Passion is what makes people leap out of bed in the morning.
If you only surround yourself with people who do what you do, they compete with you, but they don’t complete you.
Teammates are not confidantes.
Confidantes are people that are for you. When you’re up. When you’re down. When you’re popular. When you’re not popular. If you have two or three in a lifetime you are a blessed person.
Constituents. Constituents are not for you, they are for what you are for. They work with you and serve and volunteer because they believe in the mission. Don’t try to hold people too tightly who are meant to come and go.
Comrades. Comrades are against what you’re against. They’re an asset if you know how to use them. If you don’t know how to use them, they’ll end up fighting you. You don’t want to kill the fight, you want to direct them to the target.
Test: If someone can read a look from across the room, they share your spirit. You work best with people you read well. You cannot be lead by people you cannot read because then the job becomes trying to read.
If you’re going to lead like Jesus, you have to be willing to show them your wounds and let them see who you are. Jesus showed up after the resurrection and did not go to the crowds, he went to the disciples and showed them His wounds.
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