Preaching Questions: Exodus II Week 5

Holistic Preaching

Head:

Mind, intellect, logic, rationality — what is text saying?

Proposition: Leadership matters.

You are a leader, what kind of leader will you be.

God blessed this leadership structure

Jesus is our Moses

we have limits

Leadership is from god

Men of character

Heart:

Emotions, desires, wants — how does the text disrupt me?

Tension: How do we lead in a Godly way?

We love and hate leaders

Pull:

view yourself as a leader

Hand:

Action, outcome, will — what is the text calling me to do?

view yourself as a leader and lead well

As a leader of a particular size (self, few, team, group, ministry, church)

Live and lead accordingly

Under god, according to god

Calling, character, competence, capacity

Lead fearlesslyIn communityIn faith/trustIn dependence

So What??

You are a leader, so lead well, lead biblically

So That??

you would lead well

What is the fallen condition focus?

The Fallen Condition Focus (FCF) is the mutual human condition that contemporary believers share with those to or about whom the text was written that requires the grace of the passage for God’s people to glorify and enjoy him.

failures of leadership:

Fear of failure

Fear of pride

Trusting the Lord in leadership

Tim Keller: Five Questions

Here’s the problem

bad leadership

Here’s what we must do

become good leaders

Why we can’t do it

We are sinners, weak, fearful, prideful.

How Jesus accomplish this for us

Jesus lead perfectly as an act of submission

He lead by following the Father’s lead

He models this for us, but more so he removes the great barrier, our own sin and pride

He then frees us to lead well

Non only that, he sends a help to empower us to lead well

How though faith in Jesus should we live now

Daily, deep dependance on the Spirit of God, the Word of God and the People of God to lead well.