Roger Leonard

Lesson on Negative and Positive Leadership Styles. Feb. 9, 2022.
Session One:

Church Leadership; Year 3- (2/9/2022)

Lesson on Leadership from Jan. 26, 2022, for Jamaica School of Preaching.

Year 3/ Church Leadership; (1/26/2022).

Books I am reading in January 2022.

Habakkuk 2:19-20 (NASB)
19 “Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
And there is no breath at all inside it.

20 “But the LORD is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth be silent before Him.”

Instrumental Music in Christian Worship, part one of two

Den. Doctrine (2nd Year classes)- 12/1/2021

Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage:

Denominational Doctrine (2nd Year classes)_ September 22, 2021.

At a leadership conference for pastors and their wives in northern California several months ago, I was speaking on the theme of top leadership mistakes. One man came up to me after a session and asked the obvious question: “Which is the top of the top ten?” That was an easy question for me to answer. I believe that the number-one leadership sin is that of top-down autocratic leadership. You would think people would have learned by now, yet it still keeps cropping up: that age-old problem of domineering, autocratic, top-down leadership. Of all the sins of poor leadership, none is greater and none is still committed more often, generation after generation.

TOP TEN MISTAKES LEADERS MAKE by Hans Finzel, Kindle edition, location 245.

From my study today for Jamaica School of Preaching on errors in church leadership:

2. The mother of James and John (future apostles) wanted her sons to sit at either hand of Jesus in His kingdom (Matthew 20:20-28). In Mark’s account, we read that James and John had asked for these power positions (Mk. 10:25-40). (It seems that James and John may have put their mother up to it.)

a. Jesus let them know positions in the kingdom were not His to give, but His Father’s. (Mt. 20:23.) Now, if Jesus could not appoint people to positions in the kingdom apart from the will of His Father (Why do mere men think that they can set up whatever they want in leadership? They like and want power.)

b. Jesus was quite clear that real leadership is not by exercising an authoritative power position, but by willingly serving God, just as He did. (Mt.20:25-28; Mk. 10-41-45.)

c. Notice how this request caused the ten others to be indignant toward James and John. (Mt. 10:24; Mk. 10:41). (When men fail to follow the pattern of church leadership as given by God, bitter feelings and conflict will almost always be the end result.)

I am studying Calvinism's false teaching that faith is the gift in Eph. 2:8, 9. Salvation is the gift. Faith comes by hearing God's word. (Romans 10:17). Now we look at 1 Thessalonians 5:8-9 (NASB): 8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ," Who had "put on the breastplate of faith," God or the Thessalonians? The word for "having put on" is ἐνδυσάμενοι and means, "to clothe, dress; (mid.) clothe oneself" PARSING: Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural. If they put (clothed themselves with) on faith, they would be "obtaining salvation" themselves. It was a choice. Then we have 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 (NASB) 13 "But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. 14 It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." Did God choose? Absolutely. But God called them through the gospel. However, there is a need to "heed" or "obey" the gospel. (Romans 10:16). The word for "heed" or "obey" here is ὑπακούω and means, "to obey, be obedient; to answer (the door); PARSING: Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person, Plural. Salvation is, therefore, a choice! Man does have free will! God chooses us when we choose to obey Him!

Prepping for class on “Denominational Doctrines” for the Jamaica School of Preaching 2021.

The class I will be teaching for the Jamaica School of preaching this year is Denominational Doctrines. Wednesdays, from 1:30-3:30.