Seven Steps to Leadership
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To define leadership in Christian circles is like trying to describe the way the water reflected the sunlight on a semi-cloudy day a hundred years ago on a mountain lake of an unknown location! It can't be done. Either you are a leader ordained of God or not. There should be an intellectual way of describing leadership that would make you want to lay claim to uttering such a profound platitude.
Dr. Martin G Tharp PhD
Dr. Martin Tharp has been an avid student of the Bible for many years and holds a Bachelor, Master and eight Doctorates, one honorary and seven earned, including a Doctor. of Literature and two PhDs. He has been in full time ministry for over fifty-seven years and has authored forty-nine books to date, many of which are being used as curriculum in Bible colleges around the United States and abroad. He has also penned a number of gospel songs and recorded thirty-three albums as well as being actively involved in a school ministry to Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom for the past thirty-eight years, and Dr. Tharp has been honored twice by members of parliament in Ireland for their work in the Protestant and Catholic schools. He and his wife, Sharon, along with Maranda Howells, travel extensively across the USA and the whole of the British Isles holding evangelistic crusades in the churches of both countries.
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Seven Steps to Leadership - Dr. Martin G Tharp PhD
Seven Steps
to
Leadership
Martin G. Tharp, Ph.D.
Copyright 2013 Martin Tharp
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Scripture quotations identified KJV are from the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, King James Version. Copyright 1984, 1991 by AMG International, INC and the Living Bible Copyright 1971, 1986 by Tyndale House Publishers INC
Dedication
To my sons; Tony and Martin Lynn (Marty), my daughters, Terri Ann and Karen. Also to my adopted daughter Kathleen, who traveled with us in full time evangelism for twenty seven years and eight months. To My grandchildren Brandon, Nathan, Olisa, Marissa, Melissa, Joshua, Tiffany, Bridgette, Breanne, Bethany, Troy, Debbie, Heather and Savannah.
To my great grandchildren Tanner, Natashia, Dylan, Daryian and Dominic.
I love you all dearly!
Acknowledgments
To all those hardy souls who exhibit a degree of faithfulness to the Kingdom of God that defies description, pastors, evangelists, teachers, workers of all varieties who recognize the calling of God to be the only prerequisite necessary to embark on the road to leadership.
It takes that inner knowledge which is borne of the Spirit to set out traveling the rewarding, sometimes perilous, often joyous, occasionally heartbreaking, periodically satisfying, now and then frustrating, but always worthwhile path of leadership.
I want to gratefully acknowledge the impact they have made on my life.
Forward
Leadership is like a mirage in the desert. Thirst propels you forward even though the journey may have been a long arduous trek without a single drop of the life giving nourishment that is necessary for the calling of God to flourish. Just when you think you may never partake of its refreshing sustenance, something or someone comes along that has been sent to provide that invigorating stimulation!
This Book you hold in your hand may provide the stimuli necessary to urge you onward into that vast wasteland which lies void for lack of leadership. It takes you into a realm of thought that may well provide the inspiration necessary to challenge your imagination and present you with a new desire to meet the demand for true leadership.
The seven Greek words Dr. Tharp has chosen which provides the basis for this book are each sermons within themselves, but when added together, they present and maintain a cohesive flow that will at times accost your emotional system and send you into a quiet place for some serious soul searching.
Dr. Tharp is highly regarded in churches across America as well as the British Isles for his down to earth preaching style that is accentuated and enhanced by a vast wealth of Biblical Knowledge.
Read, enjoy, and take those Seven steps to Leadership!
Dr. Charles Travis
President of Logos Global Network
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Elegcho
2. Eleeo
3. Noutheteo
4. Parakaleo
5. Paideuo
6. Didasko
7. Kairos
About the Author
Study Questions
Introduction
What is leadership?
To attempt to define leadership in Christian circles is like trying to describe the way the water reflected the sunlight on a semi-cloudy day a hundred years ago on a mountain lake of an unknown location!
In other words, it can’t be done. Either you are a leader ordained of God, or you’re not. There should be an intellectual way of describing leadership that would make you want to lay claim to uttering such a profound philosophical platitude. However, the Apostle Peter may have captured the right phraseology as he addressed the Christian community at large;
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light": (1 Peter 2:9).
Perhaps there is one other who may lay claim to the definition of leadership, one who himself admitted the lack of ability to do anything without the help of the Lord.
"We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves . . . That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 15:1; 6).
In the ranks of Christian leadership, it should be painfully obvious to anyone who is remotely interested, that leadership is a calling, not a vocation. Vocation is secured through the merits and attributes which are generally acquired through the successful completion of a normal education.
The calling of God is not, nor has it ever been, predicated on the intellectual capacity attested to by an educational system. Although men like the Apostle Paul held an unquestionable degree of proper education by one of the noted theologians of his day, and Moses had lived in the house of a Pharaoh whose right it was to receive the world’s most accredited accumulation of knowledge. Yet there is no record of men like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Ezra, Nehemiah, Elijah, Elisha, or any of the fishermen that followed Jesus being able to lay claim to having achieved the right to an academic certificate.
Is it necessary to pursue an education? Since I have seven degrees, I admit to being slightly biased on the subject. Yet the answer must be resoundingly no! It is not necessary, but in my humble opinion, advisable.
Listen to the admonition to Timothy by the Apostle Paul, and to the church at large by a simple fisherman;
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15).
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" (1 Peter 3:15).
If these two titans of the faith felt it would be advantageous to make mental preparation for leadership, it might be advisable for you and I to strongly consider that option as we contemplate the possibilities of whether or not we are now, or ever will be in a position of spiritual leadership.
Chapter One
Elegcho
Elegcho
(Pronounced; el-eng'-kho: of uncertain affinity; to confute, admonish:—convict, convince, tell a fault, rebuke, reprove with conviction.)
-Step One-
The number one attribute of a leader is that he must be convincing. In order to be *convincing, we must possess a conviction!
*Elegcho; to reprove with conviction upon the offender (Luke 3:19; Ephesians 5:11, 13).
You may have heard this colloquial expression at some time in your life; I may not always be right, but I am convinced.
John the Baptist displayed the quality necessary to be a leader as he faced a crowd of people who were drawn to him, supposing that he might possibly be the Christ. He not only was convincing, Herod and Herodias (his brother’s wife) discovered he also had a conviction. That conviction could not be silenced by