Three Things A Leader Remembers

This Sermon was preached at 8:00AM on June 15, 2007 at Salem UMC, Counicl Bluffs, Iowa by D. A. Weesner. The scripture used was Exodus 3:1-22.
A Leader Remembers:
1. Who is the Enemy
2. What You are Trying to Do
3. Remembers the Unknown

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Notes for Sunday June 22, 2008

Read: Acts 7:54-8:1; Romans 8:1-2; I Corinthians 2:1-5 Things a Leader Forgets

1. Forget Your Failures
2. Forget Your Old Hurts
3. Forget Your Ego

We will compare three passages from the life of the Apostle Paul (Saul). His mission was to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to the gentile world. God used him to change our world over the last 2000 years. Now that is leadership.

We can learn from the things Paul forgets. He affirmed the murder of Stephen and had to work past the remembrance of his involvement.

Paul was persecuted and shutout from old friends and life long goals. Learning to forgive and forget allowed him to move forward into grace.

I also believe Paul was able to lay aside his ego that he talked the talk but his ego was always in the foreground of his work) and focus only on Jesus Christ. Some pastors and theologians argue this point, but they mistake ego for confidence in Christ.

Paul learned to forget and became an amazing leader.

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Scripture: Acts 7:54-8:1; Romans 8:1-2; I Corinthians 2:1-5 NRSV
Sermon Title: “Things a Leader Forgets”

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For Sunday June 15, 2008

Exodus 3:1-22 “The Message” Five Things a Leader Remembers

1. Remember who is the enemy
2. Remember everything begins with the individual.
3. Remember what you are trying to do.
4. Remember the un-knowable.
5. Remember who you are.

We will compare Moses’ call by God to lead the Hebrew people to freedom with our present day needs for leadership. I am leaning on Robert Greenleaf’s now classic work, “Servant Leadership.” For the last fifteen years, this book is always nearby.

Intimacy is achieved through forgiveness and acceptance of ourselves and those around us. 

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is known as "Life Changing."  Just perhaps, it should be better understood as "Death Changing."  Think about it.

Find comfort in the knowledge there are mountain peaks you will never climb, sunsets you will never see, flowers you will never smell.  The world is larger than you and me.  What a nice thought. 

Also find comfort in the experience of climbing higher than expected, seeing further than your imagination, knowing more than you can touch and smell.  Again the world is larger than we might guess.  "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we will see fully, even as we have been fully known." I Corin 13.