Random Notes on Leadership

These are notes from CBS leadership training from last year.  I thought maybe one of you might gleam something from them.  

• Focus on yourself first, because to make disciples, you must first be a disciple.
• You cannot lead others where you have not been- you can not lead someone to have a better prayer life if you yourself are not in prayer.  You cannot encourage a daily quiet time if you do not have a daily quiet time. 
• What we give to others must be an overflow of what God has given us.  
• Contact work is more than a duty--it is the primary way to which you learn someone and grow the relationship.  
• Jesus was sensitive to EVERY type of person- He was loving and did what others would not (woman caught in adultery); he took initiative in relationships (Zaccheus); He was unrushed, available, a great listener,a Truth speaker, and He tended their needs (the immediate physical and the spiritual).
• If you love God, you will love His sheep.  If you do not love His sheep, then you lie when you say you love God.  (1st John 4:20-21)
• Debbie Nash spoke about teaching Sunday School (I think?) to 7th graders and praying for patience.   She said what she should have prayed for was love.  "Only after loving those 7th graders did I develop patience with them."
• The greatest joy a leader can have is seeing one *youth* minister to another; this is the fruit of your work as a leader. (I substituted youth in).