In preparing to teach on Caleb, I came up with a question.\u00a0 Numbers 14:24 says, \u201cMy servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him. . .\u201d\u00a0 When I read that again, I started looking for a list of characteristics that further defined what \u201ca different spirit\u201d meant.\u00a0 No such list.\u00a0 I really wanted to be able to say to my listeners, what it would look like for them to be church leaders with a \u201cdifferent spirit,\u201d but I was left to come up with my own ideas.\u00a0 So here is number one on my list.\u00a0 Caleb was an effective leader because he was a faithful follower. Today\u2019s ministry is overstocked with men and women who think they can lead in their own intelligence, power, and persuasive personality. That kind of attitude creates short term tenure and weak discipleship. While there are always those who will follow such faulty leadership, they eventually discover it is a disappointing journey, perhaps even a dead-end trip. Spiritually effective leadership is based on faithful followship. Personality based leadership will create followers who are more like the human leader then they are like Jesus. So, if you want to have a \u201cdifferent spirit\u201d and thus make a difference in God\u2019s kingdom, decide daily to be a follower first and a leader second. \u00a0Follow the Leader, then more effectively lead the followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In preparing to teach on Caleb, I came up with a question.\u00a0 Numbers 14:24 says, \u201cMy servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him. . .\u201d\u00a0 When I read that again, I started looking for a list of characteristics that further defined what \u201ca different spirit\u201d meant.\u00a0 No such list.\u00a0 I really wanted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}