How to analyze your leadership context

David and Elaine Lloyd)

I.  Definition of Leader:  Someone who helps Agape make large progress in accomplishing “Movements Everywhere” by giving their L.I.F.E. to Jesus.

1. Leaders make different kinds of contributions toward “Movements Everywhere”
   1. Labor, Expertise.:  Skills that a movement needs to accomplish “Movements Everywhere” (Examples:  web design, graphic design, photography/videography/editing, public relations, advertising, accounting, project management, office administration, human resources.  For some nations this may also include translators.  There are probably many other needed professional skills).  Leaders can contribute these by joining our staff and bringing their skills with them, or by donating their skills to our ministry as volunteers.
   2. Influence           

                                                               i.      Definition:  Someone who can control, direct, or strongly influence what a person can do or think.  Someone whose presence at an event attracts people, and perhaps generates favorable publicity for the movement.

                                                             ii.      There are different levels of Influence:

1.      Worldwide influencer living in your city

2.      European wide influencer living in your city

3.      Nationwide influencer living in your city

4.      City wide influencer

5.      Someone who influences at least 500 people

                                                            iii.      How might an influencer use his influence:

1.      Speaker at an event (main speaker, mc, testimony)

2.      Written or filmed testimony that is circulated in various ways by our ministry

3.      Inviting others to events

4.      Having personal ministry with other leaders at similar levels of influence or lower.

5.      Generating contacts for our staff to evangelize and disciple:  True influencers generate more contacts than they have the ability to follow-up.

6.      Speaking out for Jesus and Christian values/principles in various situations. (This may not directly contribute to “Movements Everywhere” but it both encourages other believers to be bold, and it makes Christian belief more acceptable to society).

3. Finance

Observation:  One thing that is hopeful about this view of “who is a leader” is that it is broad enough to allow many staff opportunities to fit into this Priority.  It may be true that most of our staff might not relate well with a worldwide influencer like Elton John, Jacques Chirac or Roger Federer, or they may not relate well with very wealthy people, but almost any experienced staff who is well trained in win-build-send might be able to disciple someone whose professional skills Agape needs, or someone who has a smaller level of influence.

2. Leaders exist in different spheres of society

1. Government
2. Education
3. Media (TV, Radio, Film, Print)
4. Cultural Icons (Music, Art, Writers, Athletes, Actors, etc).
5. Business
6. Religion

3.  Leaders (like everyone else) have different levels of spiritual interest

1. Spirit filled Christian committed to the same goals as we are
2. Spirit filled Christian not yet committed to the same goals as we are (but might if given a vision and a challenge)
3. Carnal Christian who wants a closer relationship with God and only need HS booklet/discipleship
4. Highly interested non-Christian who merely needs to hear the gospel (or something else like how Christianity meets his felt needs, apologetics, does it work?) to become a Christian
5. Apathetic non-Christian who needs long term relationship with a Christian before willing to consider the Claims of Christ
6. “Carnal” Christian who has no desire for closer relationship with God
7. Devoted adherent to another worldview

Observations:

1. Although most may be “e” at the beginning stages of a movement you need to focus on “a-d” in as many different target audiences as possible.  In the future we hope to suggest strategies for how to target each level of interest for various levels of influence.
2. Although we focus our evangelism on levels of interest a-d, we need to also be running wide spread sowing (media campaigns, distribution strategies) into our target areas that would help move people from level e to level d (a critically important jump).  It will be important that these campaigns and strategies are not staff intensive.