Submitted by Brenda Pace, SE Titus II, W.I.L.D. Leadership Training Team
Here’s the BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): Leadership is about people!
It’s not about programs, activities, or events; it’s about people. And, the BLUF about people is: they are eternal!
A good leader will place her focus on what is most important. If the topic were how to lead well in business, the important focus would most probably be a core product. However, we are talking about leading women in the ministry of Protestant Women of the Chapel, and the important focus for this ministry is the value of an eternal soul.
Practically speaking, in women’s ministry we often include components that are fun to do or appealing to the eye. These things are welcome and valued, but they should all be linked to what is most important—the eternal component. I encourage you as you begin this new PWOC year to evaluate leadership accomplishments for their eternal value.
Ask questions like these that will help in the process of evaluating this goal throughout the year:
1) Have the women who attend PWOC been strengthened in their faith in God?
2) Have they been equipped to deal with things that would discourage and defeat them?
3) Have they been challenged to glorify God as their highest priority?
4) And, the most important question: have they accepted Christ as their Savior?
For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, each builder’s work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.
1 Corinthians 3:11-13 (NetBible)
In this passage Paul refers to the many things we do that are of temporal value, as opposed what we build upon the foundation of Christ. He makes the point that sometimes we do things that will simply burn and be gone. Those things that withstand the purifying fire from a temporal to an eternal transformation are the things of real value. These are the things we are to build into our lives and the lives of the women we lead.
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