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What we're doing is we're realizing that no program is successful without healthy, good, solid people.

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So I want to talk about three primary values of organic leadership, because there are these core values where I give the term organic leadership its name.

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And organic leadership is, as I said earlier, it's about being organic.

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And what I mean is it's a living way.

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Organic means working with living matter versus synthetic matter.

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So that's in food processing, things like that.

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So I'm talking about not the corporate, synthetic style of leadership we see around the world in America and even in the time of Christ, always been there.

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I'm talking about organic leadership, which we might call Jesus leadership, the kingdom way of leadership.

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But how do we how do we develop a leadership style and a leadership culture that can change people's lives that has longevity to it and brings the kingdom of God from heaven to earth through leaders?

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That's what I'm talking about.

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So I want to look at this passage in Matthew 10, and this is the same one we looked at earlier, but I'm going to come from a little bit of a different perspective.

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And this is Matthew 10, verse 20, when the mother of the sons of Zebedee or the sons of Thunder come to Jesus asking for a position, asking for a position of power and leadership from Jesus.

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Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from him.

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And he said to her, what do you wish?

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And she said, Grant, that these two sons of mine may sit one on your right and one on your left in your kingdom.

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But Jesus answered and said, you do not know what you're asking.

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Are you able to drink the cup that I'm about to drink and be baptized with the baptism that I'm about to be baptized with?

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And they said, we are able.

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So he said to them, you will indeed drink my cup and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with.

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But to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give.

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But it is for those to whom it is prepared by my father.

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And when the 10 heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers.

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But Jesus called them to himself and he said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them.

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So that's what I called earlier in the other broadcast corporate leadership.

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So I would call this kind of like American corporate leadership, which is a style of leadership where we lord over.

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And you see, even 2000 years ago in the time of Jesus, this would be the way leadership is defined as lording over people.

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Jesus said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, corporate leadership, and those who are great exercise authority over them.

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Again, corporate leadership.

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Yet it shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.

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So that's what I'm calling kingdom of God, organic leadership.

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And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave, organic leadership.

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Just as the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many, organic kingdom leadership.

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So corporate or inorganic leadership was at that time, still is today, a popular form of lording over others.

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And we see it in corporate boardrooms, but we also see it in churches where there's a hierarchy.

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So the way to think of sort of corporate leadership is the idea of hierarchy, self-promotion, self-protection.

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But that's unnatural to God's kingdom.

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Jesus is saying there's a new kind of leadership that I'm orchestrating.

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There is a new kind of leadership that I'm bringing to this earth, and that is serving others, loving others, caring about others, being a slave, being a servant to other people.

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And then he washed his disciples feet.

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So this organic leadership has three primary values that are a part of it that I see from the way Jesus portrays a kingdom of God way of leading others.

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And it's really different.

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It's countercultural to the type of leadership that we see today.

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So let me give you what I think of the three primary values of organic leadership.

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The first is organic leadership is all about serving people toward God's purposes.

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It's serving people toward God's purposes.

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So the primary role of organic leadership.

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that is serving others, not serving yourself,

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not self-protecting yourself, not self-promotion,

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but learning to love and serve others.

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So you put yourself, instead of above others,

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you're actually putting yourself under others,

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and you're caring about their needs.

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You're listening to them, you're loving them.

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It's the higher road of service.

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Can you imagine what would happen if we have leaders

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that, first of all, understood that the role of leadership

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is being a slave to others and serving others?

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Now, don't get me wrong.

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I'm not talking about not having a vision,

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not being out front sometimes

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where you need to be to lead.

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I'm not saying that at all.

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I'm saying, though, that to have a vision

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of loving and serving others

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is the first and most important aspect of leadership,

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and Jesus did that, and he started a world revolution

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that has changed everything in society

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because of the way he led.

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And so Jesus modeling this kind of leadership

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gives us a glimpse into a new kind of leadership

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that I think God wants to increasingly bring

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in our churches, our organizations,

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and even in our families,

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and that's first serving people, serving others.

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Number two, organic leadership is about caring for people

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more than caring for programs.

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Organic leadership is more about caring for people

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rather than programs,

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and what I mean is that in most corporate boardrooms,

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most churches, most organizations,

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the program is the king,

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and people are hired and fired

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according to how well they run the programs.

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Now, programs are important.

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You can't get anything done on any large scale

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of any organization without a program.

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Programs are important.

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I'm saying, though, that the priority

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of organic leadership is taking care of the people

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and ministering to the people and building up the people

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and developing your people

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more than developing your programs.

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You say, well, Steve, what does that mean

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if your people don't feel like coming into work?

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It's okay if they don't come into work

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and then they don't do their program.

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No, I'm talking about a healthy understanding

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of organic leadership, and that is what we're doing

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is we're realizing that no program is successful

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without healthy, good, solid people.

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So if we've got unhealthy people,

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we're gonna have unhealthy programs.

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If we have people that are messing around on the side,

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we're gonna have programs that are not gonna move forward.

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So organic leadership is not focusing

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just on the bottom line of the program

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or whatever its particular purpose is.

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It's also looking at the people

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and asking the question, are we healthy?

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Are they growing?

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Are they becoming the people that God's created them to be?

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Because organic leadership

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is about working with living things.

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Guess what?

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Programs aren't living.

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Programs are synthetic.

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Programs come and go.

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Even at the road here at our church,

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we're celebrating 10 years as a church,

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and some of the programs that we had three years ago

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don't exist anymore, but the people are still here.

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Some of the programs we had eight years ago

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don't exist anymore,

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but a lot of those same people are here

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because we take care of our people first.

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Programs flow out of people, out of the hearts of people.

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You show me a healthy leader,

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and I'll show you healthy programs

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that come out of that leader.

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So taking care of the leader

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is the second most important value in organic leadership.

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Number three, organic leadership

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is about empowering people

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and releasing them into God's purposes for their life.

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Let me say that again.

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Organic leadership is about empowering people

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and releasing them into God's purposes for their life.

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As an organic leader,

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my job is to empower my people

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toward God's purposes for their life.

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Rather than focus just on the overarching vision

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of the church or the overarching vision of the organization,

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I'm also looking at my people

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and realizing they don't have all that it takes.

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I mean, I don't have all that it takes either,

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but I have a lot more than most of them do.

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So one of my primary values is to empower people,

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to equip them, not just care for them,

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but also to help them discover their gifts,

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help them discover who they are,

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and then walk in that

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because it was gonna be a day when it's up for me,

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you know, and I'm with the Lord and I'm out of here,

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and I pray that of all the staff,

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I think we have around 30 to 40 staff

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here at The Road at Chapel Hills,

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most of them very much younger than me.

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I would say most of our team is more in their 20s and 30s.

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They are gonna carry on the legacy.

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of the road and the Kingdom of God revolution that we believe in here.

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And so it behooves me to make it one of my primary objectives

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as an organic, loving, Kingdom of God leader,

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that I'm helping pull up, notice, authenticate,

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and develop and release these young leaders.

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And it's my responsibility, part of my responsibility,

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to help them grow to be the best husbands and wives

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and disciples of Christ that they can be.

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And that's one of my primary goals in organic leadership.

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So organic leadership is about serving people toward God's purposes.

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Number two, it's caring for people rather than just caring for programs.

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And then number three, it's empowering people to reach their full potential.

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