CCF GLC 3 Leadership Culture Of CCF

I was burden to share with you the reality of any group any organization the sooner or later it will plateau what do I mean any organization any group any Church any company when you start up many times Lord willing it will grow fast as it keeps growing if you are not careful it will Plateau many churches in the world today are plateauing many churches in the world today are dying and there are many groups today including small groups you are plateauing meaning there is no more growth you are just on a maintenance mode you are no longer growing you are no longer expanding the moment you hit that plateauing group plateauing States you have hit a plateau you have to be careful you have to be strategic what you need to do and here is where you need to have strategic moments I always tell our pastors growth is a byproduct of church health and church health as a byproduct of leadership health if a leader is healthy he will make wise decisions and then he's going to do something else to renew the group to renew the organization how you do it that will be another subject matter for discussion but I just want to let you know don't be discouraged when you hit a plateau it is normal for any organization but what you need to do is to focus on the right thing don't focus on numbers what is what should you focus on everybody let's read this together many churches focus on numbers without realizing that church growth is a byproduct of church health the healthy church is a byproduct of healthy leaders if a church is healthy it will surely grow let me tap it if a group is healthy it will grow you cannot stop it because people are loving people are christ-like and then people will be attracted Leo is an executive and he said when he began to focus on relationships shared with me relationship discipleship is all about relationship but you can have relationship if you are not healthy people who are not Spritle healthy who are not emotionally healthy cannot have good relationship because they are always needy it's always about themselves so tonight I'm going to talk about church leadership half how do you become a healthy leader so that you can impact others this is crucial the importance of being versus doing God is more concerned with who you are than in what you do in other words if you ask me most important thing about leadership is your focus on the heart who you are versus what you do most parents most leaders focus on behavior the problem with behavior it can be temporary if you don't tackle the heart the behavior will sooner or later default back to surface mode but if you focus on the heart if you focus on being the right person that God wants you to be what you do will become a byproduct let me repeat who you are will ultimately determine what you do who you are will ultimately determine what you do Leo loves the Lord his group died he did not stop because Leo know who he is a servant of the Lord who you are is very crucial so if you ask me what is the future of CCF you guys I praise God you are the most important team that this church can ever have because you are like the pastor's of CCF in fact you are the pastor's of shishya you are the pastors of a small group can you turn to your neighbor tell your neighbor you are very important you are you are so important that I like you to know we like to invest time in developing your leadership because the moment you stop growing your group will stop growing the day the leader is stop learning the day that the leader stop growing the group starts dying you cannot stagnate you cannot afford to stagnate you have to keep learning you have to keep growing in short you have to keep changing changing for the better beware of laziness beware of being complacent because complacency is a natural default mode for almost all of us so my heart tonight is to encourage you to be the right kind of leader so every time we meet a couple of times a year we like to share with you how you can grow spiritually are you interested so I want the focus on who you are what kind of heart should you have because what you do is a byproduct of who you are so what kind of leaders are we looking for well the basis of who you are determines what you do is found in John 15:5 John 15:5 is the last sermon of Jesus to his disciples before he died on the cross this is the last time they were together and he's not teaching them this is what he told them let's read together I am the vine you are the branches he who abides in me and I in him he bears much fruit apart from me you can do nothing Jesus wanted his disciples to know the most important thing is you got to abide to abide means what intimacy with Jesus intimacy with the Lord total dependence on the Lord and my friends if you will grow in intimacy with the Lord making sure look at me now are you learning to memorize Bible verses you know this has restored my memory you know because I am now reviewing every week all the memory verses let me test you what is the first memory breath we have decided to memorize Isaiah chapter 40 verse 20 together do you not know have you not heard the Lord the everlasting God the creator of the ends of the earth does not sleep that's not what does not grow weary or tired his understanding is inscrutable how many of you memorize that raise your hands hallelujah how many of you did not yet memorize that raise your hands okay I'm glad you of your honesty now look at me you are supposed to be small group leader and you are not memorizing scriptures how do you expect the people under you to memorize scriptures are we communicating that's why you are crucial the health of the people under you is dependent upon you if I were you I'm gonna make memorizing scriptures as a priority in my life that's how you that's how you disciple people help them to memorize scriptures okay so I'm going to share with you the 6h of a healthy leader six eight over healthy leader what kind of leader should you become notice it has to do with the heart okay six eight number one Holy Spirit filled sailor with me Holy Spirit filled we have been starting the book of Acts why do you need the Holy Spirit because you need power it is very very crucial you need to understand holy spirit filled life is non-negotiable it is not optional you need it if you want to develop intimacy with God you need to be filled with the Spirit of God the early church all practice the spirit filled life how many of you attended the Holy Spirit class that we conducted a few weeks ago raise your hand now those of you who did not I'm gonna give you the video you make sure you listen to the video number two you also listen that with your group you need to learn about the Holy Spirit alright Holy Spirit field let's read this together look at the early church how they were described therefore brethren select from among you seven men of good reputation everybody ready full of the Holy Spirit so if you ask me what kind of leaders must you become what kind of leaders must you look for the Bible tells us you must select men and women full of the Spirit that's the early church example acts six the statement found approval with the whole congregation and they chose Stephen everybody read a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit now question are you filled with the Holy Spirit if some of you don't even know what I'm talking about you really need help because the Christian life cannot be live by your own power the Christian life is not hard it is impossible one more time the Christian life is not hard it is impossible it is not difficult it is supernatural you cannot live the Christian life in your own strength and many of you are not convinced let me prove to you the Bible says love your enemies how can you love your enemies apart from the holy spirit do good to those who hate you how can you do that bless those who curse you pray for those who curse you my friend you need the Holy Spirit to forgive people that's why the Bible tells us example acts 11 Barnabas was a good man full of the Holy Spirit so my prayer is from this day onward you will not focus on your relationship with Jesus you must be controlled by the Holy Spirit to be filled with the Holy Spirit simply means you have the Holy Spirit taking full control of your life full of the Holy Spirit means what he controls you completely why do I say that the Bible is very clear do not get drunk with wine for that is dissipation but be filled notice what is the meaning of the word be filled with the spirit the analogy is don't get drunk with wine if you are drunk with the wine who is controlling you the spirit of Sangha the spirit of in emprah it is the wine that's controlling you so the Bible says don't get drunk with wine that is dissipation you are we are wasting your life you are throwing over your life but be filled grammatically be filled is a command number two it is continuous you must continuously be filled yesterday today tomorrow you must always be controlled so to be filled means to be controlled by the Spirit of God it is not having more of the spirit it is the spirit having more of you so it's the Holy Spirit in full control of your life how many of you right now can honestly say you are filled with the Holy Spirit Europe comes right by the Holy Spirit stand up stand up you're sure if you're not sure don't stand up because you'll be lying and you might get struck by lightning no I'm dead serious the reason why I like you to understand to be filled by the Holy Spirit is something you need to know it is not optional it is mandatory so what you are telling me you are controlled by the Spirit of God that's what you are saying you can be controlled by the Spirit of God today when you go home there is traffic you get mad and who takes over now those of you who are sitting down don't despair because to become trod by the Holy Spirit is very simple I will teach you you basically surrender everything and say Lord Jesus you take over my entire life right now moment by moment you confess all non sins and then you ask him to control you thank you sit down everybody read this together the spirit filled life is the normal Christian life today if your spirit filled people think you're abnormal no no listen to me the normal Christian life is the spirit filled life today we become abnormal so what is abnormal has now become normal let me repeat where our standards are so low that what is abnormal today has now become normal in the early days of Jesus everybody is filled with the spirit they act like Christ they love each other so that's my prayer for CCF that we who live that normal Christian life where is the spirit life comprendes the Christian life is not lived by willpower it is the life of empowerment by the Holy Spirit through surrender so my friend don't try to think of the Christian I was something force upon you I need to do this I need to do that no it's a supernatural life well new completely surrender everything to Jesus you'll be amazed at the transformation but the question is are you completely surrendered that's the problem that's why the Bible tells us let's read this together everybody Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me look at the following observation number one I've been crucified with Christ no longer I who live grammatically what it is saying is simply this well let me explain this there's a difference between committed Christian versus crucified Christian today there are many Christians committed but God is after crucified Christian to be crucified with the Lord means total surrender let me ask you are you committed or are you crucified next it's in a passive voice I have been crucified meaning only Jesus Christ can do it for you you cannot crucify yourself you try okay okay you you can try okay how will you crucify your right hand you cannot crucify yourself only the Spirit of God only Jesus Christ can help you and that's why it's a life of surrender notice the position of a crucified person what is the position of a crucified person that means total surrender in other words it's brokenness I hear so many testimonies in manage in the pornography into humanizing and then the wife discovers it or vice versa and his life is mess he has been going to church on off on off then is completely broken he saw sick and tired of his life he says lord I give up I cannot change myself will you change me in my experience when you reach the lowest point of your life and you say Lord I cannot do it will you do it my friend once you surrender everything he takes over but until you do that you are joking you are playing games with God why do you think you have a hard time deciphering people you keep telling more don't be up Center you come next week then he comes next week then next week he does not come up my friend he does not show up because those kind of people are not crucified your focus on their behavior in the cycling people you want to teach them the spirit filled life when somebody starts by the Spirit of God and he dies to himself you don't have problem telling him at any meeting you have a problem settling the issues of priorities you know why that person will go because the heart is changed until the heart is changed my friend all kind of discipleship methods everything's all temporal are we communicating that's why it is crucial tonight you understand six eight the first eight is spirit filled life I like what Waddell moody said I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law the Holy Spirit will come and fill every corner of our hearts notice Dwight L Moody one of the greatest preacher of all time he said the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law my friend in English you die to yourself and the moment you do that something happens and I believe most of our problems is we are committed but not crucified so you need to be spirit filled that's what the Bible commands us everybody will walk by the spirit so it's a command subject yourselves to the control of the Holy Spirit day by day moment by moment now many people have no idea that even if you are controlled by the spirit you still have temptation look at this statement walk by the spirit everybody read and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh for the flesh set is desire against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh this are in opposition to one another so that you may not do that things that you please in other words inside each one of us you have the flesh so there will be temptations but the secret of victory is walk step by step following the Holy Spirit so temptation is not a sin but you don't have to follow the temptation let me repeat temptation is not a sin but you got to make a daily choice when you are tempted you choose the way of the Lord and every time you choose the way of the Lord you become stronger and stronger and your flesh becomes weaker and weaker I was talking to a young man recently I said how are you doing how's your private life and he did confirm to me that his temptations have become weaker and weaker and weaker this man used to commit adultery I mean immorality today yes victory why because you just learned we control by the Holy Spirit to be controlled by the Holy Spirit listen to me now means you surrender but after you surrender there are practical things you need to do you want to meditate on the Bible you want to be with other people do you understand what I'm saying but the first step is to be crucified Lord I surrender having said that let's do a quick review of your homework all right so everybody fill in the blanks quickly are you continuously filled with the Holy Spirit as a way of life one you are like the devil okay you are not controlled by the Holy Spirit you are controlled by yourself by Satan so how's your private life 1 to 10 10 controlled by the Holy Spirit everybody you need to check one of this ok so private life you're taught life understand what I'm saying you should control by the Holy Spirit are you checking number 2 home life how are you at home are you filled with the Holy Spirit at home how are you behaving control by the spirit or not ministry how do you do ministry your work life in the office you lose your temper all the time no if yes no you had a push here I don't know what number you want to put next how are you dealing with difficult people I'm just giving you examples how do you know you are filled with the Holy Spirit okay so finish all right if you are seated beside your spouse or somebody you know why which one is your lowest mark compare compare so examine yourselves are you completely continuously filled with the holy spirit now those of you who rated yourself okay 1 2 3 4 you rated yourself 9 to 10 okay all 9 to 10 here raise your hands see I praise God most of you are seen no not most some of us are filled with the Holy Spirit ok how many ok that's ok next how do you know your Holy Spirit filled let's go to the next one holy the next H is holy say that with me holy to be holy it's a command let's be together like the Holy One who called you everybody be holy yourselves everybody will be holy yourselves in all your behavior because it is written you shall be holy for I am holy today this topic is no longer popular but when I will disciple leaders I want to remind them holiness is non-negotiable notice the Bible is not talking about your position the Bible is talking about your behavior this is behavioral holiness not just positional theological holiness because in the eyes of God your sins have been forgiven this is talking about your behavior in all your behavior the word holy simply means set apart for God you are set apart for the Lord and that is why God wants you to have the holy spirit we're at the Holy Spirit you cannot be holy so the evidence of the Holy Spirit is holiness Holy Spirit so how do you know you were filled with the Holy Spirit I look at your life are you holy and you set apart for God so the word holy you have to now make it very clear in your mind it is not like in the old concept somebody wearing a robe somebody his his hands is always folded up and he was like this okay that is not what I'm talking about somebody who does not smile too much because he's holy somebody who cannot joke too much somebody who don't join parties because he's holy jesus is the holiest person and the Bible tells us Jesus would drink Jesus would be with his friends Jesus was a 10 party but was Jesus holy so what is the meaning of holy your life is set apart for God whatever you do you are aware of God's presence and you do it for God it's consecrated it's a consecrated life so holiness is the everyday business of every Christian it evidences itself in the decisions we make and the things we do hour by hour day by day so that's our primary business holy now why is holiness so important in leadership very simple the Bible tells us if you want God to use you if you want God if I want God to use me the Bible's very clear you must be holy you know why once you're holy the Bible tells us if anyone cleanses himself from these things he will be a vessel for honor sanctified everybody read useful to the master prepared for every good work do you notice it is not a seminary degree it is not a college degree it is sanctification useful for the master so let me ask you how are you doing in the area of holiness the Bible tells us flee from youthful lust pursue so to be wholly practical holiness you need to learn to flee from temptation and you need to learn to pursue righteousness faith love with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart notice flee pursue with holiness is not a lone ranger' effort you need others to help you are you aware of that I flee I pursue not alone I'm with a group of men I pursue holiness with people who call on the Lord from a pure heart trying to grow spiritually without hearing the truth about yourself from somebody else is like trying to do brain surgery on yourself without a mirror meaning you need accountability group that's what in CCF I praise God you are the accountability group leader are you a new leader no may I know your name Mike Michael how many people do you under you three okay how often do you meet twice a man how long have you been meeting together twice a man with three people how long have you been a leader seven months right my advice like Mike you now have this mindset when you meet with your people you want them to be experiencing the Holy Spirit field and then the next one is what holiness now in shishya the pastors and all the group leaders in theory we are to do 360 degree evaluation what is 360 degree valuation your members will evaluate you how many of you have done that in your group you allow your members to evaluate you using the shishya form raise your hands how many of you don't know what I'm talking about raise your hands all right I failed you in communication so I'm now gonna tell you we have a 360 degree evaluation form that you need to let your members fill it up and then your members will submit the result to somebody to evaluate you and you'll evaluate the others to help each other do you understand so how do you rate yourself in terms of being holy all right one to ten then like Jesus why like the devil how do you rate yourself in your thought life the words you speak the way you use your time wasting time it's not holiness use of your money finish do it fast I mean don't don't think what will make pastor Peter happy then you don't submit that to me it's between you and God so you better be honest but I suggest you show it to your wife you shoot your husband okay all right next humility all right what's the first eight Holy Spirit field next H if you're a spirit-filled you'll be holy if you are holy you learn to be humble all right humility is a command the Bible tells us clothe yourselves with humility God is opposed to the proud gives grace to the humble I don't know about you but humility is the sin of Satan is the sin of the devil and God wants you to do the opposite be humble all right notice the repetition everybody read humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God humble yourselves do not try to humble your wife do not try to humble your teacher you humble yourselves okay between you and God now horse humility humility is recognizing everything you have belongs to the Lord you don't take credit for yourself it is of the Lord amen so humility is a proper assessment of yourself you are not looking down on yourself but neither do you take credit for all the girls done in your life it's all about giving God the glory are we communicating so be humble under the mighty hand of God and I noticed something h3 is verse you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and then he said at the proper time he will exalt you and then he tells us casting all your anxiety on him because proud people don't pray proud people don't cast their burden on the Lord you are sufficient you see I cannot build with the problem myself I need the Lord so I'm prayerful I depend on the Lord all the time I don't carry the burden she she had many many things to do the burden is heavy but praise God God is good we can cast our burden upon him that's humility humility is a very strange thing the moment you think you have it let's do this together together humility it's a most strange thing the moment that you think you have a quarter it's just the moment you have lost it okay how many of you are humble today raise your hand all right you just lost it okay so may I suggest how do you live in humility may I suggest the following okay suggestions let's do this together listen better than you speak shy away from things that will feed your ego move from positional to influential leadership submit to the accountability of a mentor choose to obey if not you may become a god to yourself personally I practice this there are times I will choose not to do certain things if my ego is being boost you know if they want to lift up my ego I'm conscious I want to be conscious so these are simple suggestion most of you don't understand this submit to the accountability of a mentor and choose to obey what is the use of an accountability group but you don't listen to them what is the use of our pastors asking me pastor Peter what do you think then they ask my opinion then they don't listen to me you know you know what I tell these people let us just be friends but don't make me your disciple don't make me your mentor we are just friends but if I want to disciple somebody number one I will never do anything that will go against the Bible I agree so if they ask me for opinion and is not against the Bible and I tell them what they are doing I think it's not right I will expect them to listen but if I'm abusing my authority that's wrong a mentor drug abuse authority but if you want to practice humility you better listen to your mentor and I praise God every group of men they really listen I can give you countless example one of them wanted to go to the States he was prepared to live everything go to the States he asked my opinion I said no I don't think you should go you should stay he listened if you ask him to give his testimony by staying here he was blessed financially he was blessed in terms of his business he was blessed in terms of his family I have seen people they don't listen they send their kids abroad and by studying abroad when their kids come back they become obnoxious t'k they become 80s and I said the reason is very simple well new asked us for advice you don't listen nothing personally I won't get hurt listen he won't listen to me it's fine it's between you and the Lord but I'm saying better learn to be humble and listen I remember a decision I made years ago to acquire an office space for CCF in st. Francis area and the board told me they don't think it's a good idea I praise God I listen to them that saved me a lot of heartache my personal investment shishi of investment you know why I learned to listen humility means you listen if you don't have any around already group that you are willing to listen to change around ability group helping accountability group that you respect and then you'll listen now the moment your mentor tells you give me money give me man you report to me okay we don't allow that we don't allow borrowing money we don't allow when it comes to money we are very strict okay you don't give money or borrow money in the D group how do you live humbling may I suggest the following do not shy away from jobs or responsibilities that you do not enjoy don't shy away from that serve more in secret than in public be the first to humble yourself in a conflict and repent of your own mistakes okay so these are just suggestion how to walk in humility we can have many more suggestions but may I suggest rate yourself right now hey based on the following how do you respond to correction one to ten ten hallelujah you just corrected me how do you respond to criticism praise God you just badmouth me then when your rights are disrespected when others get praised and not you how do you rate yourself that's the best be honest with me how many of you like correction raise your hands how many of you like this is embrace your hands many of you are abnormal way I don't like it this is him I don't like correction but you know what I learned to accept it I learned to listen to it amen okay let's go to the next one harmonious say that with me harmonious you know why humility lead to harmony Holy Spirit filled amen what will happen holy life and then you'll be humble if you're humble there'll be harmony now everybody breathe this is a normal problem of many churches but God is telling us otherwise let's be together I exhort you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all agree number two there be no divisions among you you'll be made complete in the same mind in the same judgment why what's the problem with the Corinthian church this is the problem I've been informed concerning you by close people that there are quarrels they are quarreling there is factions now I mean this each of you is saying I'm Paul I'm Apollo's I'm Cephas and I'm of Christ modern day translation I am a company's you are under minyan I am Pentecostal you are a Baptist you see what I'm saying we like to put brands the Bible is saying no no no don't do that you know why the Bible wants us not to be divided I do not know why people like to a brand and then we want to differentiate ourselves with others my friend the most important differentiation is this I'm a follower of Jesus Christ amen so if people ask you what is your denomination what would you say I'm simply a follower of Jesus Christ now the reason is this we're commanded to love each other way so Satan does not want you to love each other he wants us to be divided he wants us to have factions and the Bible is very clear loving one another is a command and the Bible tells us everybody read this last part all men will know you are my disciples if you love one another notice the command love one another love one another so my suggestion is this harmony comes when your spirit filled me well in your spirit filled you have the fruit of the Holy Spirit which is love you will want to be harmonious the Bible is so critical when it comes to being harmonious you can you know why everybody read this I urge you brethren let's be together I urge you brethren keep your eye on those who cause the sanctions and hindrances contrary to the teachings which you learn and turn away from them the Bible tells us as leaders you keep an eye on anyd group members who cause dissension are there people like that in your group they like to cause dissension Miranda okay keep an eye on them and you know what you need to do you need to resolve that problem because the Bible says reject a factious man the grammar is a command this is a command a factious man after a first and second warning knowing that such a man is perverted and sinning so my friend let me teach you why this is crucial and how will you go about preventing unnecessary divisions in essentials unity in non essentials Liberty in all things charity example in the Christian faith what are the essentials that you must die for let me give an example this one we will never compromise Jesus Christ is the son of God yes or no he's the only way if you want to be sophisticated you follow the Latin saying Sola Feder saved by faith alone Sola Gracia by grace alone are we saved Sola scriptura faith in the Bible we believe in the scripture yes so what are the essentials I believe the essentials in Aaron word of God amen the second coming of Jesus Jesus the Son of God we are saved by faith alone in Christ forgiveness salvation is by grace these are the essentials what are non essentials give me example let me give you example non essentials Jesus is coming before tribulation no no essential Jesus is coming again non-essential he will come pre tribulation or he will come meet revelation or he will come post tribulation he some people will debate they will debate when is the second coming of Jesus is it before tribulation is it during the tribulation which is after the tribulation those are what I call non-essential now recently in ccr with a group of sincere people they want to focus on the teachings of Calvinism nothing wrong except you have to be careful what do I mean they asked me I asked them do we are we regenerated first before we have the Holy Spirit or are we born again first before you can believe or do you believe first before you are born again in other words this kind of discussion listen to me are not essential what is the sense of this salvation is by faith alone in Jesus yes or no but many people will go to the extent of causing unnecessary division and that's why I am calling a meeting with all of the sincere people which we will call if you are bad that will Calvinism and your issues we'll be happy to discuss with you this is an invitation to all people because the reality is this listen to me to insist like somebody asked me recently when does the soul enter the human body I said what do you mean you know the soul does it enter the human body when in the womb or after the baby comes out or you know my answer does it make a difference when the Holy Spirit or when the soul of a man enters his body in the womb or after the womb or what is she three months after pregnancy is a six months pregnancy my friend I believe they are not essential now you're knocking the bait until the end of the world but my point is so what okay next question the Bible says were spiritually dead therefore you need to have life before you can pray to receive Christ you see the argument my friend I said is it that essential when does one become a Christian some people will debate he must be born again first before he can believe they're sincere or you must be born again first before you can pray or vice versa my whole point is this are we clear you become a Christian by faith are we clear apart from Jesus you cannot come to Christ are you is that clear it's all by grace do I believe grace yes do I believe that God has to work in my heart before my heart can come to Christ yes but to argue to the other details is where you need to be careful anyway that's our topic what's my topic today higher money do not allow people to cause divisions you know why because the vision is the work of the devil and you may mean well let me repeat it says very clearly I urge you brethren keep your eye on those who cause dissension I will never do anything that will cause divisions in CCF the only time I'm gonna speak up is when CCF will declare a doctrine that is totally against the Bible but when something is debatable my friend in essential unity in non-essential Liberty in everything else sorry T so what are the essentials you need to understand for CCF how are we saved the Bible in Aaron word of God the Holy Spirit you need the Holy Spirit we'll have a few essentials and I believe a more the more mature you are the more you understand what are essentials I've learned to live with all kinds of questions I have seen few Christian friends who believe they can lose their salvation they don't believe in eternal security I said I still love you I people who believe in certain things about tongues speaking I respect them but I said this father the Bible know about this speaks in tongue without interpretation in a public gathering it's okay we embrace we love each other amen so my friend let me tell you you look at the statement of faith in CCF those are basic salvation through Christ alone salvation by faith alone salvation not by good works you need the Holy Spirit jesus is coming again the Bible's the Word of God Jesus is the Son of God this essential praise God are we clear okay so everybody how what must you do with all humility gentleness with patience showing tolerance for one another in love being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit you see in order to have harmony number one you must have humility not to impress people with your knowledge number two you must be gentle number three patience number four tolerant of one another but above all be diligent you got to be diligent to preserve the unity but don't forget the word in love okay so that's our job harmony I will never make somebody leader who is fashion who is very divisive everything is an issue everything is worth dying for I said no not everything is worth dying for I can live with you we don't have to agree with everything we can disagree really but certain things are non-negotiable and those are the things we agree but all others do you know I have friends who are Armenian but they don't believe everything about Arminius I have friends who are Calvinists but they don't believe everything about Calvinists no problem we love one another what is our common denominator we are followers of Jesus with the Holy Spirit we believe we are saved by grace alone through faith amen now is that most important let's stick to this amen and all the rest and all the rest smile I smile at you okay you want to believe that that's fine but please don't impose on others you see people who want to cause factionalism I tell them why do you want to invite other people to your Bible study when they are already saved when they're already said let their disciple disciple them don't try to bother other Christian now if you want to start entirely brand-new Church you evangelize unbelievers I bless you but many many false teachers they want to attract people who are already Christians they go after Christians come come join our group my friend you be careful with anybody teaching you that is contrary according to the Bible contrary to the things you have heard okay so everybody how do you rate yourself how is your relationship with your family friends co-workers superior harmony all right are we done Artie harmonious happy the Christian owes it to the world to be supernaturally joyful are you a happy Christian how many of you are extremely happy tonight raise your hand hallelujah this is the happiest group in the world you know why because you are filled with the Holy Spirit that the Sipos were continually filled with joy and Holy Spirit okay by the way to be happy is a common do you realize that rejoice in the Lord it's a command and the Bible wants to make sure you don't forget so the Bible repeats another command rejoice in the Lord always but the Bible did not stop there again I will say rejoice my friend if you are not joyful how can you attract people to Jesus I like what nehemiah said nehemiah said that joy of the Lord is your strength the joy of the Lord is my strength everybody what kind of leaders are we looking for what kinda group leader must you be number one Holy Spirit field number two holy number three humble number four harmonious now my friend don't get me wrong if people have different ideas about certain doctrines we still love them but all I'm saying is certain things are not worth causing division we can disagree agreeably but learn to submit to authorities are we clear on this and after harmony what's next happy are you happy I want to warn you if you are not happy there is a curse are you aware of that many people have not read this verse the curse of not being happy you would you like to know the verse all right let's read you Tirana me twenty-eight everybody read because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart for the abundance of all things therefore this is the curse you shall serve your enemies from the Lord will whom the Lord will send against you in hunger in thirst in nakedness in the lack of all things and he will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you my ladies gentlemen if you don't serve the Lord with joy listen to me God is saying something's wrong with you so how many of you are willing to depend today and serve the Lord with joy raise your hands higher because if you don't want to serve the Lord with joy I'm gonna warn you already you can have your problem you will serve your enemies a person who is happy it's not happy because everything is right in his life he's happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right now I want to show you a journal written by a guy when he met a lot of tough incidents and then how his journal was written by the wife all right so here's the first journal written by a man who is not happy last year are the surgery and my gallbladder was removed I had to stay stuck to the bed due to this surgery for a long time the same year I reached the age of 60 years and had to give up my favorite job in the publishing company in which I'd spent 30 years of my life that same year I experienced the sorrow of the death of my father and in the same year my son failed in this medical exam because he had a car accident he had to stay in bed at hospital with the class on for several days the destruction of car was another loss same journal the wife read it and rewrote it here is what she wrote last year I finally got rid of my rather due to which it has spent I spent years in pain I turned 60 with sound health and got retired from my job now I can utilize my time to write better with more focus and peace the same year my father at the age of 95 without depending on anyone or without any critical condition met his creator the same year god bless my son with a new life my car was destroyed but my son stayed alive without getting any disability see the difference same incident different outcome you must choose to be grateful in order to be joyful that's why the Bible says in everything give thanks so all the group leaders how will you now behave by the grace of God from your heart number one Holy Spirit filled surrender I guarantee you this the most important if you surrender everything the byproduct is holiness if you surrender everything you'll be humble if you surrender everything you will be happy are harmonious you don't always have to prove you are right you don't always have to impress people with your knowledge and you will be happy Plus are you ready for the last one hard-working but before I do that many people do not know this idea of let's rate yourself first happy ok happy how was your house your personal life 1 to 10 how's your family life 1 to 10 workplace ministry can I give you a secret if you come to our family if you see my wife my wife is predictably happy all the time if you come to our office you come to our board meeting you ask the pastor's we are predictably joking all the time especially with Gen around we're happy we're happy I just don't I just did not know if grant met with these people they're happy or not but we are together we're happy ministry well praise God but I don't know if the other ministry are happy I do not know if your people meet with you whether they're happy or not I really don't know I pray you will be predictably happy so how did you rate yourself alright you see God is after the heart who you are determines what you do in the outcome last heart working what is heart working in the hard working is doing your best for the Lord whatever you do do your work heartily you know this address to slaves okay slaves no future not break time nor freedom but you know what the Apostle Paul advanced them slaves whatever you do do not just please man but with sincerity of heart fearing the Lord whatever you do do your war heartily as to the Lord rather than for men why knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance it is the Lord Christ whom you serve my friend if you are a staff of CCF if you're an office worker you must realize not only should you be happy you should be working with the heart do your best hard-working means excellence because you do it for the Lord so what is heart working whatever you you drink whatever you do do all for the glory of God my example is when I went shopping in Nordstrom for the first time in my life I seldom go to Nordstrom I heard it's a class a department store I asked sir where is the checkout counter our shop the person said sir I will guide you in fact I'll carry your bag in fact I will check out for you in Nordstrom the service is excellent they aren't allowed to point with their mouths where is the cashier in the Philippines everything is they're allowed to do that they are company where is the accept no problems here I will accompany you first-class service where is the toilet I will accompany you no no no no no no no no need of a very me in CCF here if people ask that stuff I am Telling their stuff now if they said where is the kids room you will never point I will accompany you imagine if all she she have big of leaders will serve our people you serve your people this way extra service what will happen if all first time has come the CCF and all of you wherever you sit you give them first-class service what do you think would happen I tell you there'll be attracted to our Savior because the problem with Christians we don't serve with excellence we are willing to be mediocre we are willing to be average average is never good enough I want us to have a culture all small group leaders excellence go the extra mile and my friend we are what we repeatedly do excellence then is not an up the habit so may I suggest as we close can you rate yourself how are you doing in the workplace ok you rate yourself 1 to 10 then you walk like Jesus ministry a small group in your family if you are the owner of your company will you hire yourself ask yourself if you are the owner will you hire yourself ask yourself why should my company hire me my friend the answer should be because of my excellent excellent output I go the extra mile my productivity is high I am timely I do my report I do my job very well or I'm always late I give my report late and my excuses I'm always attending Bible study my friend listen to me shame on us if we don't have hard work amen so that my friend is my inspiration for you henceforth what must you do the earth is the TEC home 6-8 what are the six eight let's give you number one Holy Spirit filled if you are filled with the Holy Spirit what will happen to you holy what else is spirit filled humble only Christ can make you humble if you're humble harmonious you will not cause division why I really want to cause division you love people and then if you're harmonious the result is happy and if you're happy what will happen to your work hard work now imagine if all the group leaders have this six-h now how do you apply this very simple may I suggest 490 2019 all of us I challenge all of us to reproduce yourself in CCF we stopped counting members when I say stop counting it's not our focus we impress another wisdom focus on how many are we now you know probably we're getting close to a hundred thousand maybe but that's nothing what is important is this how many leaders have we develop because without leadership this movement will not continue so I'm after leaders like you and he must develop leaders like you but better choose what kind of leaders 6:8 leaders can you turn to your neighbor tell your neighbor are you six eight yeah and then I got more I am seven eight you're six eight all right so everybody you must discover develop deploy so look for potential leaders this afternoon I met with five or four five or four potential young leaders this afternoon at 5:30 why because we are gonna focus on developing leaders everybody look at me develop spirit-filled leaders and members with vibrant player life our 219 major priorities our major priorities for this year for this year Lizza me everything we will do we will focus on the following developing six eight leaders number one the world of 6s leaders okay and all our members we want them to become six eight leaders and prayerful agree we want them number one spirit-filled leader set up with me spirit field leaders imagine if the thousands of CC efforts are all spiritual you think we will impact this country louder not by might nor by power but by my spirit I'm excited if all of you are spirit filled not just tonight but tomorrow the next day everyday be spirit filled and then you'll already smile you can imagine every Sunday when people come they say wow how come you guys are all smiling yeah a spirit-filled prayerful / your life can I suggest every Monday and Friday for me we fast Monday Friday why do I fast our group fast my wife and I we fast we pray Monday Friday that is not her to be three meals one meal two minutes three minutes is up to you but fast at least one meal comprende and then when you fast however you have weekly fasting at this you choose a day you are not practicing it with your d group raise your hands pastor Reinke you can start coming here boom boom over there okay look at that look again pastor Reinke how many of you are not practicing weekly fasting with your d group members raise your hands how many of you are natural raise your hands lord have mercy on CCF and grace let me tell you if you don't fast and you don't pray how do you expect the other members of CCF do you believe in prayer yes or no louder why are you not praying why are you fasting do you like to wait until the up cancer and then you want to fast and pray don't wait until you are forced to fast and pray you better start fasting and pray while everything is fine with you amen I sincerely believe in prayer and changed my life number two focus on the family some of you are single some of you are married I want all the men married men stand up married men stand up married men stand up now be honest with me married men hey you're standing up how many of you have weekly devotion with your family members raise your hands look many of you are not just raising your hands you know why because you are not the self in your family now men start deciphering your family agree now sit down all of those men who are not yet married and women who are not yet married stand up singles now singles as you are standing up how many of you live with family members raise your hands you live with family members raise your hands very good how many of you have no more relatives alive no more raise your hand okay as long as you have relatives alive as long as you're living with your family you can start deciphering them you can invite your cousins your uncle your father you know why you have relationship I want to start thinking I will decide for my family first my friend these are your relatives you have access to them are we clear so this year our focus is disciple your family even if you are not married you have family members you live with parents you got to start thinking in other words you better behave very well at home or among your relatives comprende thank you sit down number three you focus on the youth I'm asking all the passwords in all of us to decipher people younger than us I'm doing that my son is doing that we are doing that on purpose why that's the future so I wanted to volunteer to help elevate that our Sunday school to help next gen above all be willing to start inviting young people last men stand up men men all men stand up if you are a man stand up men the ratio of population in the Philippines is 50% man 50% women that's the ratio in most churches it is majority women in CCF statistically the way I look at this I really praise God we have a lot of male leadership praise God praise God but I don't be contented because I know forever we have more female the group leaders but now with my eyes open I think okay hey guys I want you to we want to launch a men's ministry we want the men to stand up because every retreat I go to majority are women minority are men in most states but would you ladies be happy if we develop more men ladies are you happy ladies I'm so glad because we are not saying we are superior in fact we are just simply saying we want men to step up so ladies are you happy okay men they want you to step up so we start looking for other men to disciples okay with you so we are gonna launch sooner or later Ricky will announce men's ministry praise God Saddam [Applause]

Channel: Gabriel Rebuta

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Keywords: CCF, GLC 3, LEADERSHIP CULTURE

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Length: 76min 44sec (4604 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 15 2019