Part 3 | The True Substance of Spiritual Leadership

From 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Our world is starving for . 

Spiritual leadership has:

1. in the of God.

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:1-2 ESV  For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. 

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.

Leadership is formed from born of rooted in . 

“we had boldness in our God to declare to you the GOSPEL ”.

When the is preached, people will both and it. 

📖 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 NIV For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life.

Spiritual leadership has:

2. A to God.

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.

Spiritual leadership has:

3. in the context of .

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:5-6 ESV For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 ESV But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

Spiritual leadership has:

4. A consistent with the .

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:9-10 ESV For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.

Spiritual leadership has:

5. An of in those you lead. 

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 ESV For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews…

Spiritual Leaders help me more of God’s when I into the I need it.