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