Saturday Morning Study

Church of Christ on Smart Road

Sept 12, 2015

8:00 am to 12:00 pm

7:30 – light breakfast is served

Teacher: Duane Proudfit

Elder at Martinsdale, Iowa

Topic:  Church Leadership – Shepherding 

• A generic behind-the-scenes look into church leadership
• Why Christ refers to the membership as sheep
  • Similarities between sheep and personalities in the body
  • Leadership approaches that can be effective with different personalities
  • Trying to assist those that have gone astray
  • The reality of wolves; identifying/protecting against them
• Preparing yourself to be a leader – formal or informal
  • The importance and roles of informal leaders
• Tools leaders need to develop to be effective
• Encouraging individual spiritual growth and development in those sheep that are willing.
• Working with peripheral, detached, or observational sheep
• A nonspecific discussion of problems that have come up in the body at-large and what we can learn from them.
• Setting personal preferences aside for the benefit of the body
  • Learning to read the body and its needs
  • Becoming more Christ-centered and less self-centered, i.e. self sacrificing
  • The importance of leaders exhibiting the fruit of the spirit
• Promoting unity in the body without compromising the truth
• Challenges facing our leadership today

Please contact Randy or Gerald if you have specific related questions or topics