"SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP" ( A lesson in Leadership ) By Rev. Keliihananui MakalaniMESSENGER: Kuuipo Makalani

"SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP" ( A lesson in Leadership ) By Rev. Keliihananui MakalaniMESSENGER: Kuuipo Makalani
January 25,2010


From Spiritual perspective, Spiritual Leadership is solely dependent upon faithful discipleship. As with His first century disciples, Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour wants his twenty-first century Leaders to be followers first.

In the Twenty First Century organizations, all Leaders must learn to follow if they are to successfully lead. . . . Leaders at all levels and in all situations must pay close attention to situations in which their most effective option is to follow – not because the hierarchy demands they “obey,” but because performance requires them to rely on the capacities and insights of other people......Akamai? (Understand)

Following is Heart of being a Spiritual Leader. Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviours’ disciples learned to lead by literally following him. They were unacquainted with classrooms, text books, overhead projectors or PowerPoint presentations. As with most first century Rabbis, Jesus was a peripatetic teacher─He taught as he walked. The disciples were his literal followers.......

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12)

The picture of disciples learning from Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour “on the move” has had a profound affect on my personal study habits. I often picture myself walking and talking with the Master as I study, and now and then I hear him say, “ . . . follow me.......”

Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour the Light of the World promised, “Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12). As human beings, we are bound to stumble in the darkness when we walk alone. However, when we walk in the Light, we will never falter.




Where will this journey end? At the Cross! I often remind Leaders that “a cross stands in the way of Spiritual Leadership, a cross upon which the Leader must be impaled. Heaven’s demands are absolute. ‘He laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren’ (1 John 3:16).”

Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviours’ call to follow Him─and to shepherd his followers─is a call to die with Him. Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour’s call to his Disciples─to his Spiritual Leaders─reverberates over two millennia. “If anyone would come after Me, He must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will find it” (Matthew 16:24-25).



Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour was more interested in His Disciples’ willingness to follow Him to the cross than in their ambition to hold places of power in His Kingdom. Ambition is not the same thing as willingness to follow Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour to the cross. Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour cared that His followers were willing to obey Him.”

As with Peter, Jesus Christ Our lord and Saviour first and last words of instruction remain the same for his Spiritual Leaders today: “Follow me!” (Matthew 4:19 and J
Peace Be With You All
In The Name Of Jesus Christ
Our Lord and Saviour,
Rev. Keliihananui Makalani ~ KAHUNAGURU~

PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL
IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR,
KUUIPO