I just finished up spending 6 weeks working through the book Habitudes with 7 guys who are leading in some capacity and we had a blast! It’s a great book that works through the issue of self-leadership, namely building into your character, which happens on two fronts:
1) We must lead and feed ourselves before we can expect to lead others.
2) We must know who we are.
Sounds simple right? Question, do you know your top spiritual gifts? Or let me take it a step further, can you look around your own community and peg each person’s spiritual gifts? Try it. It’s a blast! Think about the quality that you have seen modeled by people in your group over the last 6 months, it’s most likely their top gift. Here’s what’s fun: the transformation that we find in Romans 12:2 is directly tied to Romans 12:3-8 where we find that each person has been gifted by the Spirit in a different way. God uses the Spirit, His Word, and His people in our transformational process. If you know me, I desperately need people around me with the gift of mercy, in order that I would be transformed more into the character of the most merciful man, Jesus. Thank God for my wife and a couple of people in my community. Here are two awesome exercises:
1) Take the Spiritual Gifts Assessment and send it to your community, and have them answer based on past actions, not who they think they should be.
2) Celebrate how each person’s God-given gifts have been used to transform you.
