Part 5 of 6 on Leading with Love, this segment address three negative character qualities a leader must avoid: envy, boasting, and arrogance.
Lecture Outline Detailed Outline Remember ItIt makes one resentful of another’s good fortune. It covets others gifts, possessions, and positions. It is suspicious and critical of another’s popularity.
Building monuments to themselves. Having a “significance obsession.” Being preoccupied with their own advancement (and agenda). Defending their own importance.
Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
- Elaborate from your own personal experiences (without naming names) any observations of damages caused by an envious ministry leader.
- What are some positive character traits that would serve as an “antidote” to a boastful, self-absorbed ministry leader.
- Compile a list of possible benefits for a leader who is humble as opposed to one who is arrogant.
- Contemplate the enormous potential destruction that envy, boasting, and arrogance can cause in a local church. Survey briefly each chapter of I Corinthians. As you do, compile a list of the problems, divisions, and conflicts you encounter. See if you can connect envy, boasting, or arrogance as the source of any of the problems.
- Memorize Col 3:4. Do you see ways in which boast in yourself is “life” or is Christ your life?
If You Bite and Devour One Another; Biblical Principles for Handling Conflicts, by Alexander Strauch