Principles of Christian Leadership: Kingdom Center

I viewed this slideshow presentation on line labeled, Principles of Christian Leadership Sponsored by Academy Leadership July 23, 2002. The main focus was on helping Christian leaders be better time managers, communicators, listeners, example setters, and more consistent. Under these principles, one philosophy of ministry that was advocated for was Oriented Leadership. This model is Trinitarian focused, united in love, Kingdom centered, vision oriented, and full of servant and stewardship leaders. Of these different topics, I want to focus on the concept of Kingdom centered. One of the definitions of leadership given was, “Christian Leadership in action is perceiving and articulating the vision of the Kingdom of God and effectively defining and communicating its incarnation, following Christ’s example of service.”(Michael T. McKibben and Benjamin D. Williams) In Oriented leadership that is Kingdom focused, the author says, “we must walk on earth and live in the Kingdom.” I believe that this kingdom ushering principle is absolutely vital to life of Christian leadership. In “doing” church, we must first realize that everything we “do” must be given by God. As the definition above provides, “perceiving and articulating the vision of the Kingdom,” is the way of Christ’s example. When we pray thy Kingdom come and thy will be done, we are asking for God’s kingdom power to flow through us and our ministries. Without the Kingdom centeredness, we would simply be busy and not effective as soldiers for the cross of Christ. As leaders of God, we must always be Kingdom first, for God’s will to be done.