Reflective Leadership: A Bible Study for Young Men Seeking to Be More Christ-like for Kingdom Work

By Jeff Perkins

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• Language: English
• Publisher: WordHouse Book Publishing
• Release date: Dec 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685471880

Jeff Perkins

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Reflective Leadership: A Bible Study for Young Men Seeking to be More Christ-like for Kingdom Work

Copyright © 2022 Jeff Perkins

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All scriptures/references that were written in this book are from the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB).

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Paperback 978-1-68547-186-6

Hardcover 978-1-68547-187-3

eBook 978-1-68547-188-0

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022920773

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REFLECTIVE LEADERSHIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR VII

SESSION 1: Icebreaker Night 1

SESSION 2: My Testimony 5

SESSION 3: Introduction 11

SESSION 4: David’s Mighty Men 19

Reflective Survey Introduction 33

SESSION 5: The Real Me Versus God In Me 37

SESSION 6: Leading My Family 41

SESSION 7: Leading My Friends 45

SESSION 8: Leading My Church 49

SESSION 9: God’s Expectations 53

SESSION 10: The Great Deception 57

So How Can I Be A Mighty Man For God?

SESSION 11: My Calling 67

SESSION 12: Characteristics 73

SESSION 13: Responsibilities 79

SESSION 14: My Foundational Devotion 91

Conclusion: Where The Rubber Hits The Road 101

APPENDIX: The Plan Of Salvation 105

LOOK IN THE MIRROR

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

SESSION 1: Icebreaker Night 3

SESSION 2: My Testimony 9

SESSION 3: Introduction 15

SESSION 4: David’s Mighty Men 31

Reflective Survey

SESSION 5: The Real Me Vs God In Me 39

SESSION 6: Leading My Family 43

SESSION 7: Leading My Friends 47

SESSION 8: Leading My Church 51

SESSION 9: God’s Expectations 55

SESSION 10: Yardstick Science 63

So How Can I be a Mighty Man of God?

SESSION 11: My Calling 71

SESSION 12: Characteristics 77

SESSION 13: Responsibilities 89

SESSION 14: My Foundational Devotion 99

Conclusion: Kingdom Work Application 103

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeff is the son of a Tennessee Southern Baptist minister, which basically means he was attending church nine months before he was born. He grew up in a Bible-believing home that loved the Lord, and at the age of seven, he committed his life to Jesus Christ. Jeff has been the worship leader at Bethel Baptist Church in Greenfield, Tennessee, for over twenty-five years; he was instrumental in transforming the morning corporate worship from traditional to contemporary-style while maintaining the integrity of focus on God in song and praise. He also is an ordained deacon and teaches a Sunday school class. He is recently retired from a family-owned wholesale produce distributor called Akin and Porter Produce, where he was involved as the chief operations officer. Jeff is serving in his tenth year at his alma mater, Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, as trustee and is the lead director on the board of directors of Bank3 in Memphis, Tennessee. In his spare time, he enjoys hunting and St. Louis Cardinal Baseball. He has been married to his beautiful high school sweetheart, Tammy, for over thirty-five years, and they have four children and twelve grandchildren (and counting), all of whom he is madly in love with. Jeff says, I want to be intentional about my service to Jesus in all I do! God is faithful, and I’m forgiven; what else it there?

Dedicated to my four children:

Jakob, Brett, Haley,

and

Graham

The God of our Salvation is calling you to lead where you are in Kingdom work!

Consider this Volume 2

SESSION 1

ICEBREAKER NIGHT

Welcome to what I hope will be a journey that will reveal to you an eye-opening, focused approach to becomzing the man of God you have always intended to be and whom God desires for Kingdom work. Where is the best place to start? How about we get to know each other, shall we? On the following pages, on what we will call a Look in the Mirror at the end of each session, you will be allowed to reveal a little basic information about yourself, your background, your job, your family, etc. Then, to finish off this introductory session, you will be asked to elaborate on a few more personal questions about what you