Growing As A Christian Leader - 1529 Words

Me, Myself, and I: Growing as a Christian Leader Looking back over the years of helping people in their needs and helping them to reach their goals has helped me realize the potential in me for leadership. Leadership skills are not always a gift given to everyone at birth, for some like me, it is something that has to be nurtured and developed. The things that come easily to others are issues I must work at to become proficient, the skills are there, but must be coaxed and encouraged to blossom and exhort the abilities that lie within me. My teenage years were spent teaching Sunday School to the younger children and sharing the love of God with them. Working with the little ones was easy, but as they grew, my confidence did too.†¦show more content†¦Being a successful leader require you have an awareness of yourself. One must be confident of who they are and in their abilities. For me, this is something that has developed over the years. Confidence is not something I was born with but something I had to acquire. Bein g raised and consistently told what you can never accomplish or succeed in, takes a toll in a person’s self-esteem. I had to repeat to myself several times a day for years, Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (NKJV) The hardest lesson was to believe that I was of value to someone and could be used for God’s glory. I had to learn that it was not I but Christ who lived inside me who could and would stand up and make a difference. Self-awareness requires me to take stock of who I am, my strengths and my weaknesses. One of my weakness is that life has been a harsh teacher and as a result, I shut down when life gets unbearable. Confusion and confrontations are difficult for me if the situation is about me. Championing others will bring out the monster in me but never having someone to stand up for me, I would pretend the person and situation did not exist. A quote from Maya Angelou impacted my life and changed the way I had been thinking: â€Å"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do