Nothing Good Happens without Good Leaders

Rev. Paul J. Miller – Sermon Outline – December 19, 2021

Series Title: The Church Needs Leaders

Today’s Title: “So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily”

Today’s Text: Acts 15: 36-16:15

 

“The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.” - John Stott

 

GOOD LEADERS OVERCOME DIVISION (15:36-41)

 “They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company.”

Barnabas - 1 Corinthians 9:6

Mark - Colossians 4:10, 2 Timothy 4:11, 1 Peter 5:13

Silas - Acts 15:22, Acts 15:32

 

 

GOOD LEADERS TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS (16:1-5)

Timothy - 1 Corinthians 4:17,16:10, Philippians 2:19-22

 

 

GOOD LEADERS LET GOD LEAD THEM (16:6-10)

Prompting from the Spirit

Visions from the Spirit

Luke is now with Paul (“we” 16:10)

 

 

GOOD LEADERS BREAK BOUNDARIES (16:11-16)

• women gathered a at “place of prayer”
• Lydia:

- a dealer in purple cloth.

- a worshiper of God.

- The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. 

- And she persuaded us.