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Part II: What does BLATANT disrespect look like? Rebellion. (2)

Posted on 04/10/2013 by Theresa Harvard Johnson

(I strongly urge you to read Part I of this article before digging into this part. This article is written specifically for seasoned leaders who have been seeking the Lord for strategies to keep order within the ministries entrusted to them. It identifies a subtle attack that the enemy is using in this hour to bring division and distort authority in the midst of core leadership groups. Christ maintained the proper relationship with his disciples – with each one of them, outside of the son of perdition knowing their boundaries and navigating humbly within them. It is with this respect and honor that I share, what the Lord has been teaching me personally in this area. You may also check out this series: The Devastating Effects of Approaching Leadership Casually and The Re-Emergence of Diotrephes)

In the previous post, we began examining blatant disrespect. Now, we’re going to go deeper. Please bear with me as we cut through to the root of this issue. I want to be sure that understanding comes and that there is no room for the adversary to jump in with another Gospel. Pride and false humility will tell us quickly that, “We don’t need this.” Yet, I am learning daily that I am never too mature in my spiritual walk to be reinforced in the foundations of the Word.

Matthew 7:12 CJBsays, “Always treatothers as you would like them to treat you; that sums upthe teaching of the Torah and the Prophets.”

Take some time to really meditate on this passage of scripture that Christ quoted in a confrontation with the elders and priests in the temple. We are going to go deeply into it near the end of this post. This fresh revelation that Father is bringing from it has blessed me so much. I pray that it blesses you as well.

You see, as we discuss this subject we must address that there is this prevailing place of entitlement among the Body in which some “mentees, spiritual children and students” demand that they are treated with respect – but they care so little about how they treat those who lead them. These same mentees, spiritual children and students demand grace and compassion in the midst of their maturation process, but fail to extend the same courtesy to those who lead them.

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Part II: What does BLATANT disrespect look like? Rebellion.

Posted on 04/10/2013 by Theresa Harvard Johnson

(I strongly urge you to read Part I of this article before digging into this part. This article is written specifically for seasoned leaders who have been seeking the Lord for strategies to keep order within the ministries entrusted to them. It identifies a subtle attack that the enemy is using in this hour to bring division and distort authority in the midst of core leadership groups. Christ maintained the proper relationship with his disciples – with each one of them, outside of the son of perdition knowing their boundaries and navigating humbly within them. It is with this respect and honor that I share, what the Lord has been teaching me personally in this area. You may also check out this series: The Devastating Effects of Approaching Leadership Casually and The Re-Emergence of Diotrephes)

In the previous post, we began examining blatant disrespect. Now, we’re going to go deeper. Please bear with me as we cut through to the root of this issue. I want to be sure that understanding comes and that there is no room for the adversary to jump in with another Gospel. Pride and false humility will tell us quickly that, “We don’t need this.” Yet, I am learning daily that I am never too mature in my spiritual walk to be reinforced in the foundations of the Word.

Matthew 7:12 CJBsays, “Always treatothers as you would like them to treat you; that sums upthe teaching of the Torah and the Prophets.”

Take some time to really meditate on this passage of scripture that Christ quoted in a confrontation with the elders and priests in the temple. We are going to go deeply into it near the end of this post. This fresh revelation that Father is bringing from it has blessed me so much. I pray that it blesses you as well.

You see, as we discuss this subject we must address that there is this prevailing place of entitlement among the Body in which some “mentees, spiritual children and students” demand that they are treated with respect – but they care so little about how they treat those who lead them. These same mentees, spiritual children and students demand grace and compassion in the midst of their maturation process, but fail to extend the same courtesy to those who lead them.

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Leadership Development

Part I: Recognizing, Confronting & Dealing With Blatant Disrespect (2)

Posted on 04/02/201312/13/2021 by Theresa Harvard Johnson

(This post is written specifically for seasoned leaders who have been seeking the Lord for strategies to keep order within the ministries entrusted to them. So as you read it, do so within the context of what has been entrusted to you personally, not from the perspective of the body as a whole — even though some elements relate to this. This series is intended to identify and expose a subtle attack that the enemy is using in this hour to bring division and distort authority in the midst of core leadership groups. At its conclusion, we will also look at how to guard what Father has entrusted to us. Christ maintained the proper relationship with his disciples – with each one of them, outside of the son of perdition, knowing their relational boundaries and navigating humbly within them. It is with this respect and honor that I share what the Lord has been teaching me personally in this area. I pray that it blesses your soul.)

The Foundation: Defining Respect

The atmosphere in which we practice our faith has been so watered down in these last days that very few people understand what it means to respect leadership, respect mantles or even to respect one another. We can see this clearly in homes where children tend to run the household; and parents break and bend at their child’s every beck and call. You can see the struggle in trying to figure out who is the parent and who is the child.

In the atmosphere of the congregation you can see it in fathering, mothering, shepherding and mentoring relationships. People come to be taught but are unwilling to bend into the mantle of a student.

Father has been ministering to me deeply about how the adversary is pouring the cup of division among the people of God. In this hour, there is an intrinsic, diabolical attack on Godly relationships – especially those centered around the “making disciples process” and the non-bondage centered mentoring, fathering and mothering relationships in the Spirit (Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Corinthians 4:15).

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Part I: Recognizing, Confronting & Dealing With Blatant Disrespect

Posted on 04/02/201312/13/2021 by Theresa Harvard Johnson

(This post is written specifically for seasoned leaders who have been seeking the Lord for strategies to keep order within the ministries entrusted to them. So as you read it, do so within the context of what has been entrusted to you personally, not from the perspective of the body as a whole — even though some elements relate to this. This series is intended to identify and expose a subtle attack that the enemy is using in this hour to bring division and distort authority in the midst of core leadership groups. At its conclusion, we will also look at how to guard what Father has entrusted to us. Christ maintained the proper relationship with his disciples – with each one of them, outside of the son of perdition, knowing their relational boundaries and navigating humbly within them. It is with this respect and honor that I share what the Lord has been teaching me personally in this area. I pray that it blesses your soul.)

The Foundation: Defining Respect

The atmosphere in which we practice our faith has been so watered down in these last days that very few people understand what it means to respect leadership, respect mantles or even to respect one another. We can see this clearly in homes where children tend to run the household; and parents break and bend at their child’s every beck and call. You can see the struggle in trying to figure out who is the parent and who is the child.

In the atmosphere of the congregation you can see it in fathering, mothering, shepherding and mentoring relationships. People come to be taught but are unwilling to bend into the mantle of a student.

Father has been ministering to me deeply about how the adversary is pouring the cup of division among the people of God. In this hour, there is an intrinsic, diabolical attack on Godly relationships – especially those centered around the “making disciples process” and the non-bondage centered mentoring, fathering and mothering relationships in the Spirit (Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Corinthians 4:15).

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Scribal Ministry Development

Did you say you are writing a secular book?

Posted on 03/01/2013 by Theresa Harvard Johnson

Introduction

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to encounter hundreds of literary ministers either through teaching at conferences and events, by phone, in passing or by email. Generally, they fall in three categories as it relates to scribal ministry: (1) those who are Christian but have not acquired a vision for writing as a Christian, (2) those who are Christian and are committed to missional style writing; and (3) those who write only as they are led, empowered or inspired by Holy Spirit. All three groups, however, can struggle with understanding the conversation surrounding secular and sacred.

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