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CLICK HERE View a 20 minute video of Roy King providing the overview of BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEADERSHIP usually taught twice a year at Columbia International University Seminary & School of Missions www.ciu.edu . Usually it is offered in a one week intensive format at either our Atlanta, GA or Columbia, SC locations. It is also offered in a once a week format in the day or or evening during the Fall or Spring Semester.
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Click Here to watch a four minute overview of MIN 6320 The Holy Spirit: Understanding & Practice . It is offered in the Spring Semester as an online course.
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Creating Space for God
Discipline is the other side of discipleship. Discipleship without discipline is like waiting to run in the marathon without ever practicing. Discipline without discipleship is like always practicing for the marathon but never participating. It is important, however, to realize that discipline in the spiritual life is not the same as discipline in sports. Discipline in sports is the concentrated effort to master the body so that it can obey the mind better. Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God’s guidance.
Thus, discipline is the creation of boundaries that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God’s gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to.
Maybe it is part mid-life crisis and part empty nest but I have been under a sense of deep conviction in recent weeks. The only way I know to say it is, ” I am aware that I will answer to God for what he has given me.
Am I being a faithful steward?
Where is the balance between ego driven marketing of one’s “products & services” and humbly letting people know of the assignment I sense God has given to me?
I am not sure I manage this tension well. But I have been spending time with God seeking to get my motives right and to hear in a fresh way His assignment for me. HERE IS MY LATEST VERSION OF MY CALLING STATEMENT
HOW do I invest in this contribution: 3 PRIMARY WAYS -
BEING A MAN WITH A LIFESTYLE OF:
One of the places I come alive is when I am sitting with leaders over coffee or tea!
This document overviews my ministry and should answer most questions a leader or group might have if they are seeing how I might contribute
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Read over the guidelines and look at the example provided of a team of Children’s Workers in a Congregation.
How would you adapt this for your context?
I welcome questions and suggestions. Download the pdf by clicking on this link: Creative Collaboration Planning Example
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Who Am I?
Who am I? They often tell me
2 Corinthians 7:4 ESV I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.
Philippians 1:3-7 ESV I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 ESV For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? For you are our glory and joy.
Philemon 1:7 ESV For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
“Life Giving Leadership” is my new short summary for Biblical leadership. As I read through the Bible I see:
If leadership is INFLUENCE – surely God leads!
Ministry leaders should align with and be going in the same direction with the same priorities as God.
“For God so loved…. He GAVE… So those who believe could have life.”
“I have come that they might have life; abundant life.”
And think of the life giving images — Bread, Water, Vine, Shepherd. . .
And think of the fruit of the work of Christ — eternal LIFE!
Far to much of leadership stuff in our culture drains life….. but God’s leadership GIVES, RENEWS, and MULTIPLIES LIFE!
If people interviewed the people in your circle of influence would they describe your leadership as LIFE GIVING?
When you been touched by God’s life giving leadership what were the gifts it came wrapped in?
Eye contact,
Forgiveness,
Someone believing in and seeing potential you did not yet see,
Being invited to partner and get in the game with what had been given to you,
A safe refuge
REFLECT: HOW DO I RECEIVE LIFE FROM GOD? HOW CAN I BE GIVING THAT SAME LIFE TO THOSE I INFLUENCE?
Robertson McQuilkin has two new small group studies that are some of his best writing yet!
Living the Life 1: God’s Standard For Christian Living
Living the Life 2: God’s Provision For Christian Living
Go on a eye opening journey over 6 weeks through the 10 Commandments and how they summarize in our daily life how God defines loving Him with our whole heart and loving others as our self.
In Living the Life 2 be caught up in a fresh experience of your love life with Jesus through the inside partner, the Holy Spirit.
Each week study is divided up into five daily studies. At the end of each week are questions to guide a small group discussion.
These studies are the core of the most valuable seminary course I received from Robertson in 1980. They are now filled with authentic personal illustrations, challenging questions that get all the way to our heart motives, and eye opening insight into the Bible.
Do Not miss these! Roy King www.royking.org
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A study was done of American Pastors asking them to list the top issues or problems facing the church today. Every black pastor placed racial reconciliation near the top of their list. None of the white pastors even put it on their list. When I start sharing about what God is teaching me about reconciliation my fellow white Christians sometimes say, “Why are you living in the past?” “Civil Rights was fixed in the 60s.” The majority ethnic group in America (for just a few more years) just cannot seem to enter into the shoes of an African American brother or sister in Christ and even begin to see America through their eyes.
Pastor John Piper’s new book BLOODLINES: RACE, CROSS AND THE CHRISTIAN has been the study of our Wednesday 7 AM at Bojangle’s group of 2 white guys and 2 black guys for several months. We have laughed together, “Amened” (is that a word) together, and teared up together. God is doing some special stuff in our hearts.
Ask Jesus to give you eyes to see and ears to hear and then read this book.
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