Rob Holmes has just released his "Twenty Leadership Principles from the Life of Jesus" as a pdf booklet.  Click here to freely download it now!

The powerpoint, mp3 audio file and article in doc format are also available at the multimedia library, click here to go to them.

Essentially this booklet forms part IV of a series Rob is working on:
- Click here for Part I: The Chaordic Leader article
- Click here for Part II: The Deconstructing Leader article
- Click here for Part III: The Disconcerting Leadership of Jesus article

by Brian Medway

This is part III of a three part series
- Click here for Part I: The Primary Purpose: finding the great commission again
- Click here for Part II: Identifying Signs of Genuine Primary Purpose

I am constantly amazed at the lack of genuine love for lost people I see in the hearts of colleagues and other fellow believers.  I spend a lot of time with leaders and I know from these conversations that while they may be passionate about church, leadership and a host of other things, they don’t love lost people.  They love being in rooms with other leaders and other believers.  They can attend conference after conference and rave about the presence of God in meetings, but they just don’t have a genuine love that reaches out to lost people and gives them the opportunity of being rescued.  It is the same with people who give themselves to prayer.  They love prayer meetings and have become accustomed to spending long periods of time in prayer.  Even though they love Jesus, their fellowship with him never seems to result in them loving what Jesus loved.  What’s more, they don’t care that they don’t care.  They have formed a spiritual lifestyle devoid of the very thing in the heart of God that caused him to send his Son and the very thing that cause the Son to send his followers.

By Robert I Holmes

This article is Part III in a series on leadership.
- Click here for Part I: The Chaordic Leader
- Click here for Part II: The Deconstructing Leader 
- Click here for Part IV: Twenty Leadership Principles of Jesus

I’ve been listening to a lot of leadership material recently. The Catalyst podcast service (www.catalystspace.com) put together interviews with all sorts of leaders in marketing, organisational growth, book authors and conference speakers. I’ve also connected with the TED community (www.TED.com) who give space for the experts in a field to deliver short messages from science, technology, medicine, engineering and art.

One thing has regularly dogged me as I listen to leaders sharing about their own lives, practices, methods and points of view. One thing hassles me – like a plumb line indicating the straightness (or otherwise) of a wall. One standard rests inside me like an immovable stone, a corner stone showing the right angle of everything else. That plumb line is the way of Jesus.

Prophetic Network of Australia
Conference Castle Hill Sydney 6-8 May, 2010