Main Thought
What is leadership? There are so many different opinions and definitions out there. One of the best ways to define leadership is to discover it in the lives of great leaders. Moses was arguably ancient Israel’s greatest leader. He was called by God to lead His people out of slavery in Egypt into God’s Promised Land. The journey was very difficult due to opponents, obstacles, and Moses’ own flaws. Yet Moses eventually positioned God’s people to inherit God’s promise. Through the life of Moses, we can learn this: “A Christian leader leads people through difficulty to a better place with God.”
Main Passages
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey…
- Exodus 3:7-8
15 And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”
- Exodus 33:15-16
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
- Matthew 28:18-20
Discussion Questions
What stands out to you in the Main Thought and Passages above?
What kind of difficulties have you experienced while trying to lead?
Who do you lead (or who can you lead) on a regular basis? How can you honor God in that?