"leadership" Tagged Sermons
Spiritual Void
Jacob now has the desire of his heart, Rachel as a wife… but it has cost him so much. Jacob is now the head of a household that is divided, difficult, and plagued with problems. As we hear what this broken house produces, we will be challenged about how we are living in the chaos of our own lives.
The Community that Clings to Jesus
As the preacher concludes his sermon it seems as though he is just spraying out a whole bunch of rules or laws that he expects the people to embrace. But we have to remember his overarching passion to call the people to cling to Jesus. Because these rules and laws are not a regime of regulations being enforced on the people, but they are ways in which the community of faith can help one another cling to Jesus.
Gospel saturated leadership
Last week we saw that God’s plan for the church was for elders to be the leading group. This was because they were the ones who pointed the sheep to their great shepherd Jesus. This week we see what the life of one of these elders needs to look like and how a church should treat them. As we seek to be a church that amplifies the gospel it is vital that our leadership is saturated with the gospel and…
Community led by the Gospel
Thoughts on church leadership are many and varied. In our heart of hearts we feel that we should be looking at the New Testament to discover who should lead the church but when we do we can easily get confused. There we see the unique group of men, the Apostles, leading the church and having Christ-given authority; but with no Apostles in the church today who should lead? This morning we are going to look at who it was that…