Lead As Jesus Led Transformed Influence

Jesus is the greatest example of leadership. To lead as Jesus led, we must live in obedience to God's commands and direction. By becoming transformed leaders, we can be used by the Holy Spirit as tools for influencing others for His kingdom. Learn the leadership traps that Satan sets and how to give up your own personal gain to become a powerful spiritual leader who influences many. Experience the Life, a thirty-week life-changing series for individuals and groups, is composed of five books, each six weeks long. You'll learn how to read Scripture, think about what you read, pray over it, and live it out. Through studying God's Word, gathering with others, and learning to pray and journal, you'll experience true spiritual transformation and become like Christ, as you prepare to lead others along the same journey. Book 1: Believe as Jesus Believed--Transformed Mind Book 2: Live as Jesus Lived--Transformed Character Book 3: Love as Jesus Loved--Transformed Relationships Book 4: Minister as Jesus Ministered--Transformed Service Book 5: Lead as Jesus Led--Transformed Influence The leader's guide contains a complete participant's guide plus discussion questions for each gathering. An online video is available for use in introducing each session with the code provided.

A classic in Christian discipleship for twenty years, this updated edition shows why disciple making should be the focus of every believer's life.

Jesus wants mature disciples. This book shows how to squeeze joy out of sorrow, truth from pain, and make permanent advances for the Savior.

Christ commanded the church to make disciples, to produce people who love and obey God, bear fruit, and live with joy. The crisis at the heart of the church is that we often pay lip service to making disciples, but we seldom put much effort behind doing it. For the pastor who is ready to put words into action, The Disciple-Making Pastor offers the inspiration and practical know-how to do so. Bill Hull shows pastors the obstacles they will face, what disciples really look like, the pastor's role in producing them, and the practices that lead to positive change. He also offers a six-step coaching process to help new disciples grow in commitment and obedience and practical ideas to integrate disciple making into the fabric of the church.

How do we put on the character of Christ? How do we stop giving in to temptation and instead pursue deliverance and transformation? Every day we must live as Jesus lived, putting on the character of God and being filled with His presence. Experience the Life, a thirty-week life-changing series for individuals and groups, is composed of five books, each six weeks long. You'll learn how to read Scripture, think about what you read, pray over it, and live it out. Through studying God's Word, gathering with others, and learning to pray and journal, you'll experience true spiritual transformation and become like Christ, as you prepare to lead others along the same journey. Book 1: Believe as Jesus Believed--Transformed Mind Book 2: Live as Jesus Lived--Transformed Character Book 3: Love as Jesus Loved--Transformed Relationships Book 4: Minister as Jesus Ministered--Transformed Service Book 5: Lead as Jesus Led--Transformed Influence The leader's guide contains a complete participant's guide plus discussion questions for each gathering. An online video is available for use in introducing each session with the code provided.

Leadership is not position. It's influence. Do you have ideas for change but feel powerless to make them happen? Do you try to respect your leaders' authority but yearn for them to see your vision? Discover how to spark change, just as young men and women in the Bible did. People in your community, church, or nation will begin to follow you. Soon you will be leading transformation! Regardless of your title, age, or qualifications, learn to be a leader now! Influence comes at the perfect time to provide clear answers in the quest for change. A book to read and teach to the new generation. - Dr Daniel Kouakou, Faculty Member of The John Maxwell Team (Côte d'Ivoire) When I started reading, I couldn't stop. Influence is as compelling as it is practical. Boldly refreshing, desperately needed - this is a core resource for leaders and aspiring leaders. - Dr Joy Mbaabu, Lawyer and Conflict Resolver (Kenya) I highly recommend this book to any Christian hoping to make a difference. - Prof Faustin Ntamushobora, President of Transformational Leadership in Africa (Rwanda)

How did Jesus lead people? This matters because without leadership there is no discipleship --without discipleship there is no church. Discipleship is indispensable. Yet discipleship is often the battlefield upon which religious-culture does war against itself and its purpose. In the ministry of Jesus we find deep-seated principles that illustrate how Jesus created disciples. These principles are so fundamental that they speak to every issue of christian leadership and church culture. Jesus did not create rule sets. Jesus did not offer discipleship manuals. His leadership was astonishing to those who witnessed it. Yes, he did miracles --but no one was quoted saying Jesus did miracles unlike anyone. What the people said was that no one spoke like him. Jesus sounded unlike any religious leader the people had ever heard. Jesus did not try to organize them or rule them or control them. He taught enigmatically, in parables and aphorisms -yet he always challenged the hearer with the unspeakable mystery of the kingdom of heaven. Jesus' leadership style celebrated influence rather than control, choice rather than manipulation. Jesus used 46 parables in his teaching. All of them reveal something about the kingdom of God. Yet none of these parables present a religious to-do list. None of these parables would make a Pharisee happy. Yet the religion that the people knew was framed around obedience rather than understanding -so why wouldn't Jesus just make rules? Jesus' teaching leaves the hearer with the distinct impression that he mistrusted rules, systems, and formulas. Rather, Jesus would share insight into the Kingdom of God. Jesus would offer a parable, a truth, a concept, then leave the hearer to wrestle with it, to make application, to organize himself or herself in response to that insight.The issue of control versus influence lies at the heart of ministry. How we organize churches. How we advocate for politics. The culture that develops within our congregations. The tone of our teaching. Control versus influence becomes a culture war between church liberals and church conservatives. Sincere people disagree. Yet isn't it interesting that the One who actually had power forsook it, and humbled himself to influence and invitation? Jesus transformed the lives of the people he touched. Not just the Twelve but many beyond that inner circle. How did he do it? Jesus did it through levels of discipleship --where the hearer individually decides both whether he or she will respond, and the level of his or her response. This book seeks to show how Jesus used levels of discipleship to orient people toward the Kingdom of Heaven. And how we can use levels of discipleship to create an influence culture in our own Christian efforts.