Loving Those You Lead

If we are in leadership, we will eventually have to learn to love the unlovely.

Single Session Bible Study

Anne Peterson

Overview

"Play nice," we tell our children when they spend time with others. We know it's inevitable: someone will get hurt. Fast forward a few decades and we find nothing much has changed. As long as we work with people, we can get hurt; but we can determine whether we will react or respond to the offender.

Table of Contents

SCRIPTURE: Mark 6:1–5; Luke 9:57–62; 14:1–13; 18:35–42; 1 Corinthians 13:4–7; Ephesians 4:29–32

LEADER'S GUIDE

• Identify the Current Issue

• Discover the Eternal Principles

—Teaching point one: Loving others means we might get hurt.

—Teaching point two: Loving others means forgiving them.

—Teaching point three: Move toward those who hurt you.

• Apply Your Findings

• Recommended Resources

ARTICLE FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAY

• "Loving Those We Lead" by Sherryl Stone
(GiftedforLeadership.com, June 1, 2007)