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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

第四天：学习领导

阅读：太二十三1-39

诚信－品质－伦理标准－道德，我们常常交替使用这些词汇，结果使一些本质的区别模糊了。什么是诚信呢？它与伦理标准或道德有什么关系呢？耶稣在马太福音二十三章１至３９节中，清楚地界定了这些关键概念。请翻阅今天的阅读材料。

Integrity and How It Works

Read: Matthew 23:1-39

• Integrity—the direct opposite quality of hypocrisy—is the quality that people want most to see in a leader.

• Integrity-character-ethics-morality. We tend to use these words interchangeably and consequently blur some essential distinctives. Just what is integrity? How is it different from ethics or morality? Jesus provided clarity with regard to these critical concepts in Matthew 23:1-39.

1. Ethics refers to a defined standard of right and wrong; good and evil. It’s what the Pharisees said they believed was right.
2. Morality is a lived standard of right and wrong, good and evil. It’s what the Pharisees acutally did.
3. Integrity means “sound, complete, integrated.” To the extent that a person’s ethic and morality are integrated, that person has integrity. To the extent that a person’s ethics and morality are not integrated, that person lacks integrity.

• If you want to have integrity, you must choose your ethic and live to match it. Anyone who wants to lead at least owes it to prospective followers to let them know what they are getting into.

• The Bible teaches a high and holy ethic. A person who claims to be a Christian and to live by Biblical standards makes an ethical statement. He or she has committed to a certain morality. For that person to have integrity, then, he or she must live by the Biblical ethic.

领导技能：持续学习的机制

第四天：学习领导

阅读：西一9-10

持续改进需要不断学习，只有不断学习的教会才能持续发展。对于在学习中成长这个概念，保罗向歌罗西都会提供了一个使人惊叹的的亮光。同样的洞见对任何人都会起作用，很值得我们思考。请在今天的阅读材料中找出这个亮光。

The Learning Organization and How It Works

Read: Colossians 1:9-10

• Continuous improvement requires continuous learning. Only the learning organization will , over the long haul, continue to grow.

• A desire all wise leaders have for their followers is—to learn.

• Paul taught the Colossians to “learn-on-the-run”. He knew that people would learn if they were provided with:

1. Standards (v. 9)—For the church, it is knowledge of God’s will. Followers in any enterprise can’t improve unless they know what “better” or “ideal” looks like. Leaders must set and communicate standards.
2. Instruction (v. 9)—Knowing the standard and grasping its significance (wisdom and understanding) are not the same. Policy and procedure manuals lacking this second component may only confuse and frustrate.
3. Practice (v. 9)—Until people “live a life”, they’re unaware of what they don’t understand. People need to try—to succeed or to safely fail—as part of their growth. Leaders provide mentors, helpers to guide as people attempt to do what is expected.
4. Feedback (v. 10)—Paul knew that, as people began to apply new learning, their effort would bear fruit. As activity produces product, people need to know how they measure up. Hearing, “that’s good” or “not quite, try again” is essential to growth. The important difference between “inspectors” and “teachers” is that “inspectors” often find only flaws in the work, while “teachers” help the workers to grow.
5. Release (v. 10)—The learner eventually grows on his or her own, having gained sufficient confidence and sophistication to ask new questions and to use the standards to guide further learning.

个人成长：勇气/冒险精神

第四天：学习领导

阅读：结二十八6-10

好的领袖懂得[亡羊补牢]，伟大的领袖却能[未雨绸缪]。面对一位非常成功的君王，以西结直接的告诉他，尽管他已经取得了成就，他的生活却充满了不道德的 行为，极需要修正。虽然以西结的生命将因此而陷入危险之中，他仍然勇敢的承担这一切风险。请翻阅今天的阅读材料，看为什么以西结先知比一位好的领袖更伟 大。

Courage/Risk-taking and How It Works

Read Ezekiel 28:6-10

• Good leaders “fix what’s broke.” Great leaders “fix what (to others) isn’t broke.”

• Ezekiel demonstrated a rare kind of courage in confronting the immorality of the highly successful king of Tyre. We admire someone who stands strong under pressure.  We cheer the leader who points out errors in the struggling department and makes it improve. But who goes into a division that’s blowing the doors off and tells them to clean up their act?

• It takes courage to stand firm when attacked. It takes courage to risk people’s retaliation by making them fix what’s broken.

• But following Ezekiel into the plush office of the powerful king to confront him with his sin requires another kind of courage—the courage that comes from godly conviction and the Spirit’s prompting.

• Great leaders exhibit great courage by consistently addressing problems no matter where whey are, what they are or who has them.

• As Ezekiel demonstrates, this level of courage comes from firmly held conviction.

• Unless a leader believes unequivocally in what he or she is doing, that leader will not exhibit this kind of courage.

• “I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

• Great conviction about great truth breeds great courage.

领导技能：架构/组织

第四天：学习领导

阅读：民十一11-17

架构是重要的，他们围绕共同的任务而组织多种资源，帮助我们取得重大的成果。但那原本为获得某些成果而建立的架构，有时却成为取得成果的障碍。今天的阅读材料教导我们：组织架构是为教会服务，而不是支配教会的。

Structure/Organization and How It Works

Read: Numbers 11:1-35

• Organizations help us to achieve some of the most important outcomes by structuring multiple resources around a common task.

• Structure addresses the methods by which resources flow through the organization to accomplish work.

• Structure exists to enable resources of power and information to flow through an organization.

• The Bible does address the manner in which people within the structure are to relate to each other.

1. Leaders are to love and serve their followers;
2. In turn, followers are to love one another and follow their leaders;
3. The leader’s specific  place on a chart is not nearly as important as the relationship that exists between that leader and those he/she is commissioned to lead.

• In this context, God simply designed a system to enable people to be heard and legitimate power to be available to ensure that their concerns could be addressed. It wasn’t about “Who’s boss?”.  It was about, “Who is going to serve these people so they can get on with their lives?”.

领导技能：长远计划

第四天：学习领导

阅读：赛三十1-5

领导包含前进的意思。每位认真的跟随都都会问：[我们正朝什么方向走？]而每位尽责的领袖都要回答这个问题。但如果无人能够对将来有绝对把握，谁敢呼召其他人[来跟随我]呢？以赛亚书三十章1至5节说出领导过程中一个很重要的变数。

Long-rang Planning and How It Works

Read Isaiah 30:1-5

• “Where are we heading?” is a question which every responsible follower must ask and every responsible leader must answer.

• Wise leader knows how tentative the strategy really is. There’s inevitably an element of guesswork involved, because no one can see beyond THE NOW. (What shall we do then? PRAY!!! —before making a plan & after having made a plan)

• Do the plans reflect a dependence upon God? Ask the right question of: “Where does this plan depend on?”

• Be responsible (stewardship)

• Ultimate goal—honoring God

Long-range Planning Checklist

• The values, the vision, the mission, the strategic action plan and the projected outcomes are consistent with what God has revealed in His Word about ethics and justice.

• It reflects a dependence upon God.

• It develops people.

• Be responsible to the people you’re accountable for.

• It ultimately honors God.