THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP BY DR.MYLES MUNROE PRINCIPLES AND SCRIPTURE REFERENCES CHAPTER SIX

THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP

LEADING WITHOUT LEADERSHIP

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CHAPTER SIX PRINCIPLES

1. The two-pronged nature of humanity’s dilemma is 

(1) even though our potential as leaders is still within us, we’ve lost our connection with our Source of purpose and power, and

(2) even if the connection were to be reinstated, unless we could discover how a leader is meant to think and operate (the spirit of leadership), we still wouldn’t be able to fulfill our potential.

2. The loss of our Source of purpose and power has led to a myriad of negative outcomes because of the confusion that inevitably resulted.

3. Knowing the answers to the questions “Who am I?” “Where am I from?” “Why am I here?” “What am I capable of doing?” and “Where am I going?” gives a human being meaning and purpose.

4. When we don’t know the truth about ourselves, we are just experimenting with our lives.

5. When human beings try to find the meaning of life, they often seek to gain their identity through a relationship with the world around them. We can never discover our value or purpose by studying the creation but only by a relationship with the Creator.

6. One result of our disconnect with the Creator is that we don’t know how to use the mental and physical resources that he has given us. We use them for destructive things, such as violence, abuse, manipulation, corruption, and crime.

7. The greatest impact of the disconnect is that we have become what we erroneously think we are.

8. The most powerful thing that a human has on earth is his thoughts. It is one’s thinking that determines one’s life.

9. Confused thinking about one’s origin and purpose results in self-hatred, self-denigration, self-deception, fear, ignorance of personal identity, ignorance of personal ability, ignorance of personal purpose, ignorance of a sense of destiny, and a mentality of survival.

10. We believe what we’ve heard and accepted as truth. Our beliefs then become our philosophy, and our philosophy controls and regulates our lives and leadership.

11. Generally, a society cannot produce a leader that is better than itself because that leader usually gets his or her beliefs from the society.

12. Leaders are limited by the extent of their knowledge of the truth about themselves and the world.

13. The home, company, classroom, community, or nation that is under the leadership of a ruler who has a slave mentality is in great danger.

14. If you want to study leaders and their leadership, do not study their physical appearance or demeanor. Find out where they get their thoughts and ideas.

15. To restore the spirit of leadership, our hearing needs to be tuned to our Source so that our beliefs will be based on truth.

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CHAPTER SIX

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

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PSALM 82

1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.

2 How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked? 

3 Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

4 Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked.

5 They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

6 I said, “You are gods, And all of you are children of the Most High.

7 But you shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.”

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inherit all nations.

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ECCLESIASTES 10:5-7, 16

5 There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error proceeding from the ruler:

6 Folly is set in great dignity, While the rich sit in a lowly place.

7 I have seen servants on horses, While princes walk on the ground like servants.

16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, And your princes feast in the morning!

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PROVERBS 23:7

7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

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ROMANS 10:17

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.