The Cross & Brokenness in Leader Development

From Leaderpedia

by Lisa Nagle

The humility of Christ is a foundational virtue embraced by the emerging leader by a posture of:

• fellowship leading to listening with love
• seeking the beauty of the Lord leading to the wisdom of the Lord
• first love leading to self-sacrifice
• esteem leading to honor
• worship leading to obedience
• embracing suffering leading to brokenness
• the cross leading to resurrection

Focus: Character
Topic: Humility
Purpose: Combat spiritual narcissism
Target Group: School of Discipleship

Contents 1 Spiritual 2 Experiential 3 Relational 4 Instructional 5 See Also

Spiritual

1. Fasting and prayer asking for humility
2. Journal to God about pride and humility in one’s life and listen for the Lord to speak about said topics
3. Meditate on ways to apply character or perfections of Christ
4. Note ways that the Spirit is calling one to repentance by turning our mindset to a new one revealed in Christ
5. Memorize Philippians
6. Begin a discipline of solitude building to a Solitude & Silence Retreat (min 3 days) and one day per week
7. Give away something of high personal value at the prompting of the Holy Spirit
8. Invite family and friends into identification of idols process and a process of putting discovered idols to death

Experiential

1. Minister/serve with no communication to anyone about anything you have done in ministry/service
2. Reflect on what characterized your first love of Christ – what its practices and service were. Re-engage those things for a period of time given by the Holy Spirit
3. Take a missions trip to a third world country --a complete change of environment -- that gets one’s hands dirty and body tired.
4. Try a skill or activity for the very first time
5. Invite one’s spouse or member of one’s household to describe their experience of your humility and/or pride
6. Faithful engagement with spiritual mentor
7. Resolve and explore open and closed offenses and invoke full reconciliation within relationships via footwashing

Relational

1. Invite humble people to share their story of humility
2. Listen to your own story regarding humility and pride. Write the story, then have spouse or close friend edit your story.

Instructional

1. Read Humility by Andrew Murray and write a paper of one step of application for each principle encountered in the text
2. Do a comparative study of Moses and Jesus for identification and application of like principles garnered from their lives
3. Transparently share two or three incidences of encountering the Lord in a humbling process #Study the life of Brother Yun, Martin Luther King Jr, or George Muller and journal about how their example impacts you personally

See Also

• List of all learning experiences