Kingfisher Leadership
1st November 2017
Kingfisher Leadership You are responsible before God, not just for knowing what they are, but for developing them to their maximum potential. Are you challenging yourself to develop your gifts to the best of yourStewardship of our emotional life
The potential sources of hope:
Becoming a Hope Carrier
Our own ability or determination We can set our goals and be Leaders are the principle carriers of hope. If followers lose determined that they hope. others are there to inspire and encourage come to pass. We can, them and pick them up. But if a leader loses hope, by force of our own will, Followers are then everyone else begins to lose hope too. choose to do whatever However, if leaders have hope themselves, they not called to it takes to make it work. are able to inspire and encourage others and impart that hope to them. Leaders, therefore, lift their Resource-driven need to be carriers of hope. Hope leaks, however, We can assess what is drained away by the stresses and pressures of leaders up likely to happen, given leadership - just take a look at 2 Samuel 19:1-8 for the number of people leaders are example, where David had to put side the grief he we have, the levels of felt over the death of his son for the greater good called to be commitment and of imparting hope and encouragement to his enthusiasm, the budget the hope troops. - or lack of it. The hope is that, all things being carriers for Maintaining hope points to the need for self equal, we should be leadership. The leader needs to guard their heart the group able to achieve this and take care of the maintenance of their soul. It is much, given the not the role of those who are being led to lift up resources that we have. the leader. It is the role of the leader to set the tone. For the leader, the following verse is especially important: Ought-driven, “Guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life” (Proverbs 4:23) We don’t want to ‘let the side down’ (i.e. disappoint people). You Identifying the vision of hope for our ministry. hear other leaders in the church or in The vision of hope is not just the vision of what we are going to other churches, getting excited about do this year or this term. This is about what we believe God is things to come and you get swept promising us as a group or as a ministry. This is important along by this. The conviction is not because it leads us to set our expectations at the right level, yours, but rather it is borrowed. You rather than merely at the level we believe we or the group can know you ought to feel this rising achieve. How do we arrive at the vision of hope for our ministry sense of joy and you don’t want to be or group? Through considering the following questions: out-of-step with what others are expressing around you, but the hope that you are communicating is ‘oughtdriven’ rather than from inner conviction. 1