The At Risk Radio Podcast

GA Leadership #3: Leading with Coleaders

Co-Leading Among Leaders in the Church

This episode begins with a story of the graduation in Senegal:

• We were going to start the graduation ceremony at 11am and we ended up starting at 5pm.  Lunch was at 3pm and dinner was at midnight.
• Every leader must be present before starting events and making major decisions. This is co-leading.

How did we see Jesus lead his disciples?

• He sent them out two by two. Rarely did he do anything on his own or did the disciples do work on their own.
• Mar 6:7  And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
• Luk 10:1  After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
• Mat 18:16  But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

A discussion about when did leaders work alone in the Scriptures

How do we see the church lead in history?

• Act 15:1  But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
• Act 15:2  And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.

How to organize the leadership of congregations today: We are to appoint Elders not an elder.

 

GA Leadership #2: Every Believer a Leader:

Every Believer is a Leader

SOM International's verse is Acts 1:8: “When the power of the HS comes upon you, You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and remote parts of the earth.”

What is Leadership?

Leadership is influencing others in a certain direction. Disciples influence others in the direction of righteousness.

How did Jesus lead?

SOM International Mission Statement encompasses this Spiritual truth of God:

Internationally Serving Leaders Who Risk Much For Jesus.

Maturity in Christ is leadership. When we find clean-hearted witnesses for Christ we simply want to encourage them and add to their tools

Peace in the Midst of Conspiracies

Peace in the Midst of Conspiracies

Mark Stafford and David Witt discuss the current state of unrest in the American political sphere and offer both a global perspective and real hope from God's Word.

The passage referenced in the podcast is Isaiah 8:11-17

New Living Translation

A Call to Trust the Lord

¹¹ The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,

¹² “Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do,
    and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.
¹³ Make the Lord of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life.
    He is the one you should fear.
He is the one who should make you tremble.
¹⁴     He will keep you safe.
But to Israel and Judah
    he will be a stone that makes people stumble,
    a rock that makes them fall.
And for the people of Jerusalem
    he will be a trap and a snare.
¹⁵ Many will stumble and fall,
    never to rise again.
    They will be snared and captured.”

¹⁶ Preserve the teaching of God;
    entrust his instructions to those who follow me.
¹⁷ I will wait for the Lord,
    who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob.
    I will put my hope in him.

 

English Standard Version

¹¹ For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: ¹² “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. ¹³ But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ¹⁴ And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching^[a] among my disciples. ¹⁷ I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

GA Leadership #1: Leading with Verbal Communication

What is this podcast all about: Orality

Here are a few highlight's we cover:

• Preeminence of Orality around the world in restricted and unreached areas of the world.
• Story of “Jesus loves me this I know for their “Faces tell me so” in China. Currently over 40 million Chinese lack a personal Bible.
• Story of Russell going along the river in Colombia and lady waved them down to receive her first Bible of 20 years. Currently over seven million Venezuelans lack a personal Bible.

How Jesus Mostly Communicated

"Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”"  (Luke 24:44)

Christians communicated the gospel orally for the first three centuries

Most Christians in history grown in discipleship through oral communication

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you. Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,"  (2 Corinthians 4:7-13)

How effective leaders most often communicate

Leaders develop effective oral communication.

American’s are Oral Learners

If Americans are mostly oral learners what about the rest of the world? The developing world?

About SOM

SOM International priority is distributing the Word of God. And the first line of offense is Orally. This is why our Church Planting Schools and Lighthouse schools around the world focus on the Oral Word of God. In Latin America we are harnessing radio as a way to communicate God’s Word.

 

 

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