On the Go Leadership – 2 – How to Step Up and Step Out

 

Welcome – Chris Fluitt | Redemption Church Plano

 

Your career, calling, and cause

 

Case study: 120 people… no degrees, no capital backing, no government grants

 

Grow organization to over 2 Billion.

 

Last week: How to become a leader.

Leadership = INFLUENCE

You are a leader.
Permission > Position
More obedience leads to more influence

 

How to STEP UP and STEP OUT.

 

My problem.

 

Phone call – serious situation. Random situation.

 

The need to be instant, ready, knowledgeable, spiritual, give an answer, conviction, and inspiration.

 

Step up. Be present. Take on the issue.
Step out. Say something. Do something.

 

“What do I do? What do I say?”

 

31,102 verses in the Bible! Which one do I quote?

You can relate… Your Problem.

-Phone call
-Called on at meeting
-Called into the Bosses office
-Called on in Mrs. Mansfield’s 10th Grade

-Your child asks you an important question

-Pressured to respond or defend…

 

The need to be instant, ready, knowledgeable, spiritual, give an answer, conviction, and inspiration.

 

Important moments.
Difficult moments.
Confusing moments.
Stressful moments.
LEADERSHIP MOMENTS.

 

How do you STEP UP and STEP OUT and not miss the moment?

 

Acts 2 – Peter’s moment.

 

Peter: Disciple
Key’s to the Kingdom – leader.
Failure – sword swinging, dumb question, wrong answer, lying coward Peter…

 

In Acts 2 the Holy Spirit dramatically fills 120 people…

 

The crowd…

Acts 2:12-13 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

 

13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

 

Pressure – Respond, defend…

 

14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.

 

Step up and Step out moment.
Turned away criticism.
Success.
Changed forever.

 

How do you do that?
What do I do?
What do I say?

 

How to know what to do and say?

 

Pattern in Acts

 

Ridiculed in Acts 2 – Response: Jesus
Questioned in Acts 3 – Jesus
Interrogated in Acts 4 – Jesus

Threatened in Acts 5 – Jesus
Accused in Acts 6 – selected leaders filled with Jesus
Martyred in Acts 7 – Jesus

Persecuted and running in Acts 8 – Jesus to a new community

 

I am not saying – Next board meeting – Blurt out Jesus

 

Application

 

Always be on message

Peter and the crew knew what to do and say.

They always said and did the same thing.

 

No new invention required.
Go with what is tried and true.

 

Stressful moment – Stand and deliver the message.
Asked a point blank question – Message.

Asked for specifics – Offer specifics in the context of message.

 

Asked WHY, WHAT, HOW? Message.

 

Dangerous to be off message.
Solid and profitable to be on message.

 

Message?

What do you mean?

 

Do you have a message?
What is your message?

 

Mission
Vision
Values

 

Define these… How to know what to do and what to say.

 

Business terms… but what do they mean?

Mission (WHAT)
Vision (HOW)
Values (BEHAVIOR)

 

Your career, calling, cause needs this defined.
Family…
Church…

 

Redemption Mission:
To help people find and follow Jesus.

 

Jesus Mission:
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. – Luke 19:10

 

General purpose.
Compelling.
Clear.

 

Mission is WHAT we are doing.
Vision is how we are going to do it – more specific.

 

Redemption Mission:
To help people find and follow Jesus.

Redemption Vision:
Love God, Grow Faith, Serve Others, Go Change the World

 

Jesus Mission:
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. – Luke 19:10

Jesus Vision: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,

19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

 

Vision is what… Mission is how.

How are you going to accomplish your goal?
This is your message.

Be ready to stand up and talk about this.

 

Values are the behaviors you reward.
What are your values?

As a leader
-define your values.
-be on the lookout for those embodying mission, vision, values.
-reward them.

 

Robert Cortez

 

Always be on message

 

 

But… I work at a job without a clear mission, vision, values.

 

Influence change.
Write your own – make it your message.
Workshop it. Make it compelling.

Practice your message.

 

As a Jesus follower…

The mission of Jesus is powerful.
The vision of Jesus is life changing.
The values of Jesus are rewarding.
God’s power is attached to His message.

WORKS IN EVERY AREA – not just spiritual.
Career, family, relationships, education

 

Stuck? Time to GO!

#1 Do you have a message?

 -Define it.
 -Pray for direction.

#2 Are you stepping up and out?

 -Are you living it?

 -Start today.

#3 Need help?

 -Ask. God cares. We care.

 -Pray! Seek God.