Wartime Transformational Leadership

Wartime Transformational Leadership

People and organizations follow leaders who inspire them. They are leaders who can cast and excite others with a vison and dream. They get things done by injecting enthusiasm and energy. The single biggest factor to great leadership is developing and then promoting the vision and transformation.

Tranformation is one of the deepest emotional connections to leadership that one can have. Wartime leadership is one of these defining types of leadership. This is what we see in leaders like Churchhill, Martin Luther King, and now President Donald Trump.

We should see this even more so in Christian Leadership because we are at war and time is of essence – Lives are being destroyed and many are hardening to the things of God because of what they are being taught as truth. God has commanded us to get involved and speak out on his behalf to a lost and separated world. The Bible says, “ We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities in high places.” - Ephesisans 6:12-13

The war we face is as real as the wars of bombs and missiles. We are called to the front every day of our lives. The lives that pass into eternity without Christ are lost forever. In the ministry of reaching children we are confronted with the fact that it is the most fruitful mission field in the world, yet it is the most neglected.

Because we age and so do children it is important to reach them before they harden to the gospel. Each year you sing Happy Birthday to a child, remember this.

- According to the research, between 70-80% of the people who sit in our churches today accepted Christ before their 15th Birthday. So as a child grows a year older think about the reality of those facts and let’s see them transformed and living for Christ early. So much pain and even loss can be set aside because the child who soon is to be adult has had the opportunity to know love and honor the Truth of God’s Word. So leadership for our ministry revolves around these areas.

1. Adults in the churches -Pastors, boards and congregants Community and business leaders

2. Parents of the Good News Club Children

3. Everyone who will listen and those who don’t

4. Encouraging and enlisting volunteers to work in the Good News Clubs and to take a role in the ministry, ie helpers, prayer partners, staff and executive staff, and boards etc.

5. Encouraging and exciting the team and communicating God’s goodness. Teaching the power of the Holy Spirit living in each born again believer and what that identity in Christ means to us as Christians.

Some of the keys to Wartime - transformational leadership are;

1.Urgency – to many, they think they have an unlimited amount of time and resources – they fail to see the threat or the opportune time. Change can be quick and sudden and one needs to know how to react.

2. Flexibility

3. Life and death choices - We face a life and eternal death situation every time we confront someone without Christ.

4.Monitoring and accountability Lead from the front – walking the talk – focused with a tremendous attitude.

5. “Comrades in arms” a Spirit de Corps - sense of unity, common interest and loyalty.

Transformational and wartime leaders who are Christians have the added gift of peace. The peace of God that passeth all understanding will guard your heart and mind” Philippians 4:7-9... While one fights on. If that seems like an oxymoron, of war and peace at the same time, it isn’t when you’re connected to the source of all peace and leader of all leaders for the Army of God.

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