Every Believer a Leader

By Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo

As a member of His family, you have an equal status with every other person in the family because in His family everyone is equal. He is the head, and we are all parts of the body.
We differ from each other, but none of us is better than the other' - says Dr. Olowosoyo in this leadership manual.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329494299

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Every Believer a Leader

Every Believer a Leader

Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo

©2015 Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo.

ISBN 978-1-329-49429-9

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Bible quotes are from the New King James Version unless otherwise stated.

Dedication

In appreciation of 30 years of relationship and consistent collaboration in service to God and spiritual leadership, I want to dedicate this book to

Pastor Bode & Dr Kemi Akindele

Chapter 1 - Leadership: Old Testament versus New Testament

The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen,

To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, which, He said, "you have heard from Me;

For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,

who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.

Acts 1: 1-11

In the Old Testament, there were all kinds of leaders, at different times. Some were judges, like Gideon; some were kings, like David; some were priests, like Aaron; some were prophets, like Samuel; and some were apostles, like Moses (and Joshua).

Their eras were different from each other. But the only common thing about each of them was that God singled them out as leaders, and every one listened to them. There were no competitions. It was one leader per time. Joshua waited for Moses to finish his leadership before his own