个人成长：顺服神

第二天：认识神

阅读：申十12-13

概览一下以色列的历史，就会得知神的受约子民的基本问题，是他们重复多次违背神的命令。他们顺服神，神就祝福他们；但他们经常悖逆是痛苦及最终衰落的根 源。显然，这里没有基本的原则可以同样应用在我们的生活中。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，看看神出于爱而对他子民发出的要求。

Obedience to God and Who God Is

Read: Deuteronomy 10:12-13

• In one sense, God’s requirements of us are quite simple: fear Him, walk in His ways, love Him, serve Him, obey His commands.

• All these things are facets of one thing: a growing personal relationship with the God who has already demonstrated his unflinching commitment to our best interests.

• The more we realize in our thinking and experience that God always seeks our good, the more we will be willing to trust and obey Him in what He asks us to do and to avoid.

个人成长：顺服神

第一天：开始思考

阅读：撒上十五1-23

领袖在付出代价的同时，也有很多机会－有正面的，也有负面的。不少领袖利用资讯和财政资源的使用权，去谋取个人的利益；有的领袖到处游历，悄悄行动，容让自己的圣洁生活松懈；还有领袖利用他们的地位，不道德的打垮内部或外面的竞争对手。面对金钱、美色和权力的诱惑，许多领袖出卖了自己。我们速览一下每天报纸的标题，就能看到领袖堕落的各种案例。

每隔一段时期，领袖就应该问问自己：“我付出的代价是什么？”敬虔领袖对神的委身，应该是无条件的顺服神，不管需要付出什么代价。不幸的是，扫罗身为民族领袖，集民族的希望于一身，却缺乏这样的委身。当重压在身的时候，扫罗没有顺服神的命令把亚玛力人完全毁灭，却保留亚玛力王的性命，并留下最好的牲畜（9节）。这就是扫罗的“付出”：向败阵的君王耀武扬威，凭借占有牲畜而扩张财富（在那个年代，牲畜是财富的最主要标志）。后来，当撒母耳谴责扫罗王的时候， 他竟用站不住脚的托词宣称，他留下了最好的给耶和华。扫罗不但不承认自己的罪，而且把它合理化。

神如此回答他呢？他说：“听命胜于献祭”（22节）。神不需要我们的所有，他需要我们自己。因为神有了我们，也就拥有我们的一切。扫罗王既厌弃耶和华，耶和华也弃绝他作以色列的王。

因此，请你扪心自问：“我付出的代价是什么？悖逆神，我会失去什么？”但愿你的委身是忠贞不渝的。这样的委身是领袖品格里的重要元素。重读扫罗悖逆神的悲惨故事，从他失败的悲惨收场中，我们得到什么启发？

Personal Development: Obedience to God

Read: 1 Samuel 15:1-23

• A godly leader’s commitment to God should be such that he or she will obey Him no matter what he or she is offered to compromise.

• To obey is better than sacrifice.

• God doesn’t want ours, He wants us. Because when God has us, He also has ours.

• Ask yourself, “What’s my price? What would it take for me to disobey God?” Hopefully, your commitment is nonnegotiable.

• Such commitment is crucial element in the character of a leader.

Passage to memorize this week 本周背诵经文:

诗篇 Psalm 119:97-101

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.  I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.
我何等爱慕你的律法，终日不住地思想。你的命令常存在我心里，使我比仇敌有智慧。我比我的师傅更通达，因我思想你的法度。我比年老的更明白，因我守了你的训词。我禁止我脚走一切的邪路，为要遵守你的话。

个人成长：诚信

第十天：深入反思

阅读：代上二十九10-19

诚信问题对领袖而言有多大的重要？大卫是历史上十分敬虔的领袖，在历代志上二十九章10至19节中，他阐述了自己对这个问题的观点。通过这段对人生的丰富 诠释，默想你自己的情况，然后阅读巴克斯特（Richard Baxter）的精辟论述，那段论述记在今天的阅读材料中。

Integrity and What I Do

Read: 1 Chronicles 29:10-19

• Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling-blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hinderers of the success of your own labors. It much hindereth our work, when other men are all the week long contradicting to poor people in private, that which we have been speaking to them from the Word of God in public……but it will much more hinder your work, if you contradict yourselves, and if your actions give your tongue the lie, and if you build up an hour or two with your mouths and all the week after pull down with your hands……He that means as he speaks, will surely do as he speaks. (Baxter, Richard. The Reformed Pastor)

• This old English “pastor to pastors” has a wise word for any leader who wants to encourage his or her followers to “do it right.” Read his quote again and think about the implications for your own life as a leader with integrity.

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个人成长：诚信

第九天：学习领导

阅读：“人物剪影：撒母耳”

撒母耳的诚信是摆在每个领袖面前的挑战。概览撒母耳的品格，对我们每个人都有指导意义。阅读今天的阅读材料，可更深入了解那激励这位伟大领袖的价值体系。

Integrity and How It Works

Read: Samuel

• Samuel’s life life reflects the story of an intimate God-with-man relationship.

• Samuel realized the importance of servant leadership and warned against the dangers of a leadership that defines itself by its privilege and power to live off the efforts of those who are led.

• Samuel was a great leader because he understood leadership as an opportunity to serve people and add quality to their life. He abhorred a leadership that used its power to exploit the led for personal gain and position.

• Leadership for Samuel was a stewardship, a responsibility, and honor. He demonstrated integrity because it was not his intention to demonstrate integrity. He was honest because his intention was not to be known as an honest man. He was fair and just because he wasn’t thinking about developing his reputation as an honest and just man. He was thinking about honoring God and serving God’s people. He wasn’t living to build a reputation. His higher calling and focus resulted in those things.

个人成长：诚信

第八天：认识自己

阅读：诗三十二1-11

即使我们中间在属灵上最忠心的人，也曾经失去诚信。不管我们是多么委身、多么成熟，我们都曾问自己这样的问题：“如果我违背对神的许诺、违背自己的诚信原则，我该怎么办？”大卫展示敬虔人在面对自己的失败时该采取的行动。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，通过大卫悔罪的祈祷，默想你自己的行为方式。

Integrity and Who I Am

Read: Psalms 32:1-11

• God himself referred to David as a man who walked “in integrity of heart” (1 Kings 9:4), whose heart was “fully devoted to the Lord his God” (1 Kings 11:4) and who “followed the Lord completely” (1 Kings 11:6). David’s psalms teach obedience to God.

• David has integrity because he consistently held to the same standard. When he wrote about that standard, he meant it. When he violated it, he called it sin—he never glossed it over, made excuses or took it lightly.

• Integrity doesn’t demand perfection. Integrity doesn’t guarantee a perfect life, but it does require an integrated life.

• People with integrity have a moral center that integrates their behavior. When they violate that moral center, they recognize that violation as sin and treat it as an aberration. They confess it, make restitution, seek forgiveness and reconfirm the standard.

个人成长：诚信

第七天：认识神

阅读：太六1-34

有多少次你与自己的个人信誉争战，决心作得更好？耶稣知道我们将与伪善斗争，所以在马太福音六章1至34节中讲述了核心问题，那是我们必须彻底解决的，如果我们希望提高自己的诚信。请翻阅今天的阅读材料。

Integrity and Who God Is

Read: Matthew 6:1-34

• We must wrestle to the ground if we hope to increase our level of integrity.

• Integrity requires more than a commitment to itself.

• Jesus warned against doing right things for wrong reasons—things such as trying to develop integrity only because it will advance our career or help us to close a deal. Jesus called people who practice this kind of morality “hypocrites”.

• The essence of hypocrisy (lack of integrity) is public-dependent behavior. It is acting one way if people are watching but another when alone.

• Jesus’ key to integrity is that His followers will live their lives by the standard of their unchanging, ever-present heavenly Father. Resist the temptation to dance to every vendor’s tune; instead, march to the steady beat set by our Almighty God.

• Integrity involves living by one standard and for the approval of one Judge. People come and go, and their standards are fickle. Trying to please all of them will at best drive you nuts and at worst turn you into a hypocrite. But God is unchanging and always present. Living for Him is foundational to integrity—and it reaps an eternal reward.

个人成长：诚信

第六天：进深思考

阅读：撒上十二1-4

只要能见到一个典范，大多数概念都容易理解了。圣经中诚信的杰出典范之一就是撒母耳。我们以他作为学习“诚信”这专题的开始。现在让我们花一点时间重温“诚信”这个系列第一天的阅读经文。阅读的时候，请留意下面几个问题：

• 撒母耳作以色列的领袖有多长时间（1-2节）？
• 每 个领袖希望被人纪念的成就或评价，都由自己决定。对某些人而言，值得纪念的可能是他们作决策的天赋；对另一些人而言，值得纪念的可能是他们积聚财富的总额；还有一些人，值得纪念的是他们赢得追随者爱慕和尊敬。在第3节中，撒母耳对百姓宣读了他自我评价的项目，他看重的是什么呢？
• 继续阅读百姓对撒母耳的回应（4-5节）。从中可以了解撒母耳担任以色列领袖期间的情况？
• 诚信的要决是什么？阅读5至7节可得到简短的答案。然后跳到20至24节，默想该段经文，再回答以下的问题：“撒母耳多年保持诚信的推动力和价值取向是什么？”
• 思考这个问题：要跟随撒母耳一生的脚踪，培养同样的世界观，你具体的计划是什么？用一些时间思考你自己对神的看法和他在诚信生活中的角色。

Personal Development: Integrity

Read: 1 Samuel 12:1-4

• Key to Integrity: Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you. (verse 24)

• Our plan: ……as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Passage to memorize this week 本周背诵经文

提摩太前书 1 Timothy 4:15-16

Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. 这些事你要殷勤去做，并要在此专心，使众人看出你的长进来。你要谨慎自己和自己的教训，要在这些事上恒心；因为这样行，又能救自己，又能救听你的人。