CHRIST — Person centered leadership
A 5C devotional on healthy leader development
There are a number of excellent books on leadership which stress the importance of having a clear set of values and principles from which you lead. Having clear values and principles is essential for your leadership.
The question is where do you get your values and these principles? Do you make them up? Do you derive them from common sense? No. We do not determine our own values and principles. They come from a Person and that Person is God Himself.
When I came to Christ in my college days, I did so because He came to reconcile me and restore my broken and lost relationship to God. He did not come to make me "religious"or to give me more rules and principles to try and follow. He came to reveal God to me, John 1:18. He came to seek me and rescue me, Luke 19:10, in order to bring me to God, 1 Peter 3:18. He came to bear witness to the truth, John 18:37. He came to make me a member of the covenant family of God, John 1:12.
Jesus modeled person centered leadership to His disciples throughout His time with them. He did nothing on His own initiative. He did not speak on His own. He make judgments on His own. What He did; What He said; What He decided; all came from His relationship with the Father. This was the secret and the source of Jesus' leadership.
Of course there are rules and principles in leader development but they are not primary. RELATIONSHIP is primary. Everything flows out of relationship with Christ including values, rules, and principles. We must be careful not to miss this and make values or rules the center of our leadership. Jesus is the center of our life and our leadership.
Read the Gospel of John and look out for His relationship with the Father. Follow Him
"For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen." Romans 11:36
