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Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs (Chapter 10)

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Rocko Jankowski

Nov. 22, 2017

Keep NO Record of Wrongs

Today I will be sharing about Chapter 10 of Perry Noble’s book and we will be dealing with the idea of keeping no record of wrongs. Now, I missed last class but from what I have heard, the reality of forgiveness was discussed and so I’m excited to see how God is orchestrating what looks to be a bit of a theme here.

Why I chose this topic

I chose this topic because it is something that I have the privilege of learning and growing in during this season of my life. It has become very true to me and is something I am being challenged to walk in outside of the context of a local church ministry. But who here knows that ministry is not just your “job” or your “practicum” or your “internship” but rather ministry is a lifestyle. There are times when people, friends, family, and even those in who are in your placement will hurt you.

What are you talking about

So, Perry Noble, the former senior pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina & author of this book. Hold book up. Has based this chapter on and the truth of love keeping no record of wrongs. Now, here he is talking specifically about this truth within the context of a local church, and as a leader. Which I will go over. But I also am going to relate this back to our lifestyle of ministry and how we can maintain these truths not just as leaders in church but as leaders in our day to day lives. Stress this point

Chapter intro

He starts the chapter by discussing a business mistake that he made as a leader within the church. The leadership team was in the midst of expanding the church to a new building, and had signed and moved into a new location without fully reading the lease agreement that was made and within a year they had lost that location and had to restart all over again. Perry’s response as the Senior Pastor was simple, nobody got fired, nobody got yelled at, nobody got blamed. They just learned from it and moved on.

Our options for dealing with mistakes

How do we respond when someone we lead makes an honest mistake? Give examples

Within the church

Outside the church.

Perry says there are 3 choices,

1. Scream – (Lose our temper, Go off)

2. Go Silent – (Ignore the person who messed up)

3. Learn – (A mistake is an opportunity to learn)

Leaders can be their own worst enemy

He uses the story of Saul and David here.

Saul was an insecure leader – David was secure

Saul was so focused on how he felt wronged by david that he had kept his focus on him

Monopoly example

David chose his conviction over convenience – didn’t kill Saul when he had the prime opportunity. David was an excellent leader because he valued people more than a title

Yeah, but how?

So, how do you keep a culture free from record keeping?

4 questions according to author

Is this a consistent issue? (Do they keep making the same mistake again and again) point to mike as an example of this – late for class – late for assignments

Is this a competence issue? (Do they just not know what they are doing?)

Is this a communication issue? (Am I saying something wrong?)

Is this a character issue?

Effective leaders don’t use someone’s past to attack their future

Rather than keeping a record of wrongs, they forgive and move forward

Celebrating Risk?

IF YOU HAVE TIME –

This reminds me of the idea of

Preaching (Homiletics) Championing each other on

Growing in spiritual gifts and the prophetic (Todd’s church, Hybrid, champion risk well)

In serving, we can find ourselves afraid of making a mistake due to a pressure that is placed by a leader. So rather than growing in taking risk, we stay stagnant. As leaders, in the church, but especially in our lifestyle. Are we being sure to celebrate the idea of stepping out in faith? Or are we so hard on those we lead that we end up discouraging them and keep them from growing, as well as keeping ourselves from growing.