The art of copying is great because it helps you get things done faster.
There is also a blessing in doing something so that you never make that mistake.
It is important to learn about leadership, understand leadership, and apply appropriate leadership principles, otherwise, you may be practicing child leadership. But the leadership style you should avoid!
building
The child’s leadership is characterized by not building anything.
The boy is not a builder! Children play games and enjoy what they have built! If there is nothing to build, they live and stay in what they have and are happy, not knowing what they don’t have or what they can build. The child’s leadership is characterized by only using things but not building anything. Woe to your people if they are led by children!
When they came to Jesus, they immediately begged Him, saying that He is worthy of their actions, because He loves our nation, and has built our synagogue. Luke 7:4-5
Many third world countries have cities and villages, which are not built. The difference is striking between western cities, towns and villages and third world cities, towns and villages in the presence of buildings, roads and other infrastructure.
Concentration
The child’s leadership is characterized by a lack of concentration.
Children have short attention spans. When leaders do not concentrate on their core functions, they achieve nothing. This style is described as child leadership.
That’s why we are no longer children, who are tossed and tossed around by the wind of teaching, by human cunning and intelligence, who try to deceive; Ephesians 4:14
One of the main principles of war is to bring all your forces to one point in order to overcome them. It is the principle of concentration! That’s why when a bridge becomes an army target, all air, land and sea forces focus on destroying it.
It is not surprising that some leaders cannot achieve much because they do not concentrate on their chosen work. Let us concentrate on our core mandate and achieve our stated goals.
position
The child’s leadership is characterized by a struggle for position.
Children love positions that make no sense to adults. Children love to be able to sit in front of the car door, shower first or even shower last. Leaders want titles and positions but have no desire to help the people.
I have to give you milk and not solid food, because you can’t handle anything stronger. And you are still not ready, 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 (NLT)
Work
Such is the child’s leadership that no one can work under him if he has a choice.
Java 1994: When all the people of Israel saw that the King did not listen to his words, the people said to the King: “Why do we have a portion from King David?” I have no inheritance in the son of Jesse: go to your tent, O Israel! So the people of Israel went to their camp.” 1 Kings 12:16
I once visited a slave castle in an African coastal town. The tour guide did a great job and took us through the gruesome dungeons that had been used to keep captured slaves. At the end of the tour, we came to a small door called “The door of no return.” He told how anyone who passed through that door would never return to African land. They perished at sea on slave ships or died as slaves in America.
Then I asked and got a surprising answer from a group of African American visitors.
“If this slave ship comes back to this castle to take slaves back to America, do you think there will be people?” I emphasized, “I don’t mean an ordinary ship. I mean a slave ship that wants to take you as a slave and not as a tourist or visitor.
The tour guide replied, “The ship will be full to overflowing and even sink due to overloading. We will quickly board the ship so that we can go to America as slaves. The African-American visitors could not believe their ears.”
Why would anyone want to immigrate to America as a slave? Are they trying to escape the good weather they find in Africa? Are they trying to escape from the richest continent, the one with the most natural resources? The answer is ‘No’.
They escaped the type of leadership that turned the continent into a desert without the basic amenities found elsewhere.
We pray for leaders to know who knows what they are doing. May our prayers not turn away from our leaders if we have a choice!
The author is the founder of Lighthouse Church.
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