Reproductive Leadership

Intro

What is Reproductive Leadership?

This isn’t information your OBGYN can give you or a specialized therapist.

This isn’t the kind of conversation from stage that makes you uncomfortable

Definition: Reproductive Leadership is when you reproduce something about your character or integrity into someone else. It’s not the kind of reproduction that is mentioned from the stage and people get uncomfortable.

Reproductive leadership is when the exceptional qualities you contain as a leader are passed down to someone else.

It’s not just the passing along of information, it’s the passing along of wisdom from one person to another.

Reproductive leadership usually set someone up to more than the one who came before.

The Christian term for Reproductive Leadership is simply this.... “Discipleship”

Main Question: How did Jesus reproduce Himself in Others?

Reproductive leadership is when the exceptional qualities you contain as a leader are passed down to someone else.

It’s not just the passing along of information, it’s the passing along of wisdom from one person to another.

Reproductive leadership usually set someone up to be BETTER than the one who came before.

Reproductive Leadership first requires conflux.

Definition: Conflux is when two river become one. Their starting points are different but they converge at one point making a stronger, more powerful river.

It takes two rivers with different points of origin, different paths, different stories and combines them into one.

The smaller river doesn’t have a choice but to submit to the overwhelming power of the greater.

Jesus lived in constant conflux with the Father.

John 10:30 ESV

I and the Father are one.”

John 10:30

When Jesus was exhausted he retreated to the father.

Jesus Disciples lived in constant conflux with Jesus.

Conflux is the word to describe the point where two rivers become one.

Often times it looks like a powerful river that has a smaller river join it. It increases the power and strength of the river.

Jesus wants his disciples to be one with him and the Father.

John 17:20–21 ESV

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Reproductive Leadership is built on wisdom

What does it look like to be contagious?

English Standard Version Chapter 1

20  Wisdom cries aloud in the street,

in the markets she raises her voice;

21  at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;

at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

22  “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?

How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing

and fools hate knowledge?

23  If you turn at my reproof,

behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;

I will make my words known to you

This means there’s something different about you. It describes a marketplace where everyone is hustling to and fro and missing out on the very thing that brings life.

YOU ARE NOT THE NORM.

Jesus wasn’t the norm. His leadership wasn’t normal.

Jesus leadership wasn’t textbook, he wrote the textbook.

Jesus’ leadership caused him to stick out.

Reproductive leadership doesn’t start with you

You have to allow someone else to first pour into you.

Jesus wasn’t just a miracle worker, he was a teacher.

Jesus was a trained carpenter like his father. He had to first be an apprentice before he could be a master.

Jesus begins his ministry at age 30, he surrounded himself with 12 disciples.

This is why conflux is so important. When you give yourself to someone else its is like your watching how they live, you’re watching how they speak, your watching how function and you’re allowing it to be reproduced in your life.

Construction Experience

If you want to be a leader that reproduces then you must first be reproduced in.

You must first be an apprentice before you can be a master.

Reproductive Leadership doesn’t have many opinions, it has much wisdom.

Opinions mean you’re trying to give a solution,

We will in an opinionated culture.

Many opinions means your trying to go it alone. People who step back, shut up, and ask questions are the ones who grow in wisdom.

Jesus has his sphere of influence.

Jesus had his 3, Jesus had his 12, Jesus had his 72 ()

Jesus knew if the Kingdom of God were to advance he needed to pour into people.

What Lifegroup are you in? Who is it that is influencing you and your family?

Life Transfers through Reproductive Leadership

John 7:38 ESV

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

You were designed to have life come out of you.

The Nile River Delta

John 7:38 ESV

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

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You were meant to be a river of life.

You were designed to have life come out of you.

How does our leadership become truly lifegiving

English Standard Version Chapter 19

34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

It becomes lifegiving when people see Christ coming out fo you.

When they see you serving along side of them, not out in front.

When your service doesn’t just serve those like you but those who aren’t like you.

John 19:32 NASB95

So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

John 19:34 ESV

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

John 19:33 ESV

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

John 21:15 NASB95

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

The author of Johns Gospel shows Jesus death not as just dying for our sin but out of his death come a river that represents life and the source of life.

It’s as if a river is coming from Christ’s death.

If you want your leadership to be lifegiving then you must learn to participate in Christ’s death.

We must dwell on the gospel daily and

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