The Source - Session #2

Spiritual Leadership Principles - Chet Caudhill

Hebrews 12:1 is a reference to Hebrews 11

Abel - Worship

1. Leaders don't offer God their leftovers. They realize He deserves our very best in everything we endeavor.

Enoch - intimacy

2. If you desire to lead others in spiritual growth, you must be growing yourself.

Noah - Righteousness

3. Leaders must stand for what's right in spite of what others do or don't do. Leadership necessitates a willingness to stand up for what you believe in.

4. Leaders must be confident in their leadership abilities and decisions. Obedience is the key.

Isaac - Romance

5. Leaders turn to God for direction and guidance.

Jacob - Persisitence

6. Leaders must have a "never-say-die" attitude

Joseph - Dreamer

7. Leaders dream, communicate the dream, unwilling to give up.

Moses - Deliverer

8. Leaders have the courage to say "yes" in spite of the risks.

The greatest enemy to faith is FEAR!

1 John 4 - love.

From Chaperon to Shepherd - notes

Jeremy Chapman from Germantown

Relational Discipleship

Shepherding is all about relationship

Chaperones versus Shepherds

Chaperons

• Respond to needs
• Doing it because they get something out of it (it feels good)
• Monitors
• Control
• Operates via rules
• Responds to situations
• Watchers of others
• Hired hand
• Clueless at ministry

Shepherds

• Doing it because of the call
• Inspires
• Leads
• Engages via relationship
• Proactive
• Investors in others
• Has a sense of ownership
• Understands the power of every minute

Passages mentioning shepherding

Psalm 23

John 10, 21

Acts 20:28

1. Awakened - Become aware of those who have sheperded

2. Realize your impact.

A shepherd

• Is patient with sheep
• Loves his sheep (love is feeling with actions)
• Knows his sheep. Who are you praying for? (should be praying for your leaders)
• Values his sheep.
• Never underestimate the average.
• Some people are labeled "Extra Grace Required"
• Sheep are sheared, not scalped
• They are sacrificed, not slaughtered
• Observes his sheep
• Feeds his sheep
• Hungry sheep are unhappy, noisy
• Knows the best fields to graze in during the right season
• Knows the condition of the flock
• Is an abundance creator
• There are servant leaders & shepherd leaders
• Vision leaks from holey vessels, so we have to keep bringing that back up. It's not a one and done sort of deal.
• Always speeks well of his sheep
• Pursues his sheep
• Rests with his sheep (but does not rest during adversity)
• Is the authoritative guide

Jeremiah 3:15

Questions:

What's the next level for you?

What models/mentors are you looking to?

Have faith to follow, and lead by example. (Are you smoking what you're rolling?)

The Source Youth Leaders Conference 2011 - Session #1

Chet Caudhill - National Speed the Light Director

Imagine...

- Quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer regarding the creativity and imagination of children.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

• Quoted at Vision '65 "New Challenges for Human Communications", 21-23 October 1965 and published in v 65: New Challenges for human communications, Volume 4, International Center for the Typographic Arts, Southern Illinois University (1965), p. 221

Risk involves failure.

What happens if we influence a generation to not believe?

Obstacles

- Discouragement from Others

- Disappointment - what you do to yourself

- Exhaustion

- Inadequacy

 

Briefly mentioned Ephesians 3:13-21