Sunday, July 29, 2012

A Diligent But Disillusioned Leader!



‘A Diligent But Disillusioned Leader.’
Ecclesiastes 1:12-15.
a)     Ecclesiastes 1:12. This Leader was a Teacher and a King of God’s People.
b)    Ecclesiastes 1:13. This Leader devoted himself to search for understanding.
c)     Ecclesiastes 1:13. This Leader devoted himself to explore by Wisdom everything being done under Heaven.
d)    Ecclesiastes 1:13. This Leader soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.
e)    Ecclesiastes 1:14. This Leader observed everything going on under the sun.
f)     Ecclesiastes 1:14. This Leader found that everything was really meaningless, like chasing the wind.
g)    Ecclesiastes 1:15. This Leader’s experience was that what is wrong cannot be made right and that what is missing cannot be recovered.
(Through this QT I discover A Diligent But Disillusioned Leader)
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‘We Need To See This.’
James 2:17.
a)     Faith by itself is not enough.
b)    Faith should produce good deeds.
c)     Faith that does not produce anything is dead and useless.
(Through this Second one I realise that I Need To See This)
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Chris.
This Leader was a Teacher and a King of God’s People. I cannot agree with the Teaching that every “Christian” is a Leader, I cannot accept even that every True Believer is a Leader because Leadership is a gift from God. There are some Leaders who make themselves Leaders but do not have the Gift of Leadership and this can create so many problems amongst the people that they lead. Leadership is a gift from God and needs to be discerned in God’s People by those people who are already functioning as Leaders. 

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