Starting the first weekend in October, I will be teaching weekly classes that I call “Leadership Class.” I don’t define leadership as leading officially or being in charge of something or someone. I define leadership as the “influence” you have over other people; because of your character, consistent behavior, and your words the people around you change their behavior, way of living, priorities, and character. You influenced them to change for the better by your leadership. A part of our leadership is because of the positive example that our life is to those around us, and another key part is the fact that God supernaturally works in their life through us. “THROUGH US – THROUGH US – THROUGH US.” God supernaturally works through people to cause great growth and change in others. He only works through qualified people. Leadership Class asks and answers the question, “What qualifications does God require in order to work through us?” Jesus said to Matthew when He called him, “Follow Me and I will make you a fisher of men.” Jesus was going to teach Matthew what he needed to do and be so that he could influence other people for Jesus. Jesus was making Matthew a leader.

Electricity travels through material called conductors. If we go to “Home Depot” and buy a roll of electrical wire, we are buying material that conducts the electricity to our lights, refrigerator, and oven to give them power. The top four conductors of electricity are silver, copper, gold, and aluminum. The poorest conductors of electricity are lead and stainless steel. The top four non-conductors or insulators of electricity are plastic, rubber, wood and glass. In regards to the power of the Holy Spirit working through us into the lives of others, some people are silver, copper, gold, and aluminum, others are lead, and still others are plastic, rubber, wood, and glass.

We don’t want to be non-conductors or even poor conductors, we want to be good conductors of God’s power into the lives of our kids, spouse, people we work with, friends, neighbors, those in our church, and even to people we don’t like. Leadership class teaches us how to become golden conductors.

2 Timothy 2:20-21 Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, , , Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

We can be gold or silver, which are good conductors, or we can be lead, a poor conductor or we can be wood and clay, which are non-conductors.

“Leadership Class” is all about learning what makes us gold and silver conductors of God’s power into the lives of others. Most Christians are lead or even wood and clay; their godly, positive influence in the lives of the people around them is very little, if any. They aren’t necessarily bad people, just non-conductors or poor conductors of God’s power into the lives of others.

There are separate first-year leadership classes for men, and woman and there is a Leadership II class for men and woman together. Want, want a lot, want bad, really want to be a golden vessel, useful to God, and be willing to pay the price.