Leadership and Humility
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The document discusses the importance of humility and prayer for leaders. It states that leaders must empty themselves to make room for God, remain close to God in prayer, and use humility as their most important tool. Leaders are called by God and must guide others toward God while staying humble and recognizing their own imperfections.
Leadership and Humility
- 1. Leadership and Humility • The leader is called by God, and cannot be a good leader without God • To prepare a place for God in ourselves, we have to empty ourselves of ourselves • The way for doing the work of God is to remain close to Him in prayer • The real tool of the leader is the virtue of humility • Open to the promptings of the Son of God
- 2. Called by God • God called you. You must have a great appreciation of what you are getting into • In opposition to the flood of vice and slackness
- 3. To guide others toward God
- 4. To prepare a place for God in ourselves, we have to empty ourselves of ourselves. • Empty yourself of yourself so that you can put on Jesus Christ.
- 5. As a wild bush with a cultivated shoot grafted on to it, will produce the fruit of the graft…
- 6. The way for doing the work of God is to remain close to Him in prayer • Important matters: close contact with the Lord in prayer • For learning what you have to teach • Sense of awe and experience of His love
- 7. A man can go astray himself while guiding others toward salvation • Saul, after he had ascended the throne, lost God’s favor • St. Paul kept control of himself because he was afraid that, even though he had preached to others, he himself might rejected
- 8. Stay close to our Lord • Be my shepherd • Do not let me miss the graces which you channel to others through me
- 9. Jesus Christ must be your model as a leader. • He preached, worked, fasted, and shed his blood and died. In addition, he prayed.
- 10. Humility • Let us always keep an eye on what is human and imperfect, so that we can see plenty of reasons for being humble
- 11. Humility: don’t act as though you are superior • Jesus Christ told us that he came to be of service to others • Anyone who wants to be master should be everyone’s servant
- 12. Humility: We should give God the credit for any good • Bear in mind that the leader is mainly responsible for all mistakes. • It is like the way the whole body is upset if a person has a bad headache.
- 13. Humility also prevents complacency
- 14. Humility: you will be able to speak with the humble mind of Jesus Christ • We recognize these comparisons: a field, a vine, a mustard seed
- 15. Open to the promptings of the Son of God • Is this in line with the teaching of Christ? • Lord, if you were in my place, how would you react to this situation?
- 16. The leader must be a light for enlightening, and like salt
- 17. A leader has to deal with both spiritual and temporal affairs
- 18. We are not to be worried about tomorrow
- 19. I ask our Lord to bless your ministry as a leader • Ask Him along with me to forgive all my faults