GLS 2022: Session 3 – Judah Smith

Introduction

• We’re talking about leading with pain.
• I play this game with my wife: “Would you have married me if…”
• We need to celebrate the little things.
• I thought leaders walked a certain way. I grew up in a church where the pastors sat on the stage. I thought leaders walked a certain way, act a certain way. 
• I started to subscribe to fake it until you make it.  I thought faith and fake were synonyms. 
• There was a disparity between who people thought I was and who I really was. I couldn’t keep up with the delta.

Integrity & Integration

• Integrity’s root word is integration. It is integrating your whole self into all you do.
• I’m still young enough and dumb enough to tell you the truth about me. I have an anger problem. 
• A lot of my pain is an unwillingness to walk a certain way for you.
• What you really live and you really believe,  let it carry over to what you live.
• You only lead to the level you live and not the level you look.
• We have to be honest with how we walk through life as leaders. 

Leading with Pain

• Leading with a limp.
• We are not just talking to your leadership, but to those who will learn leadership from you. If you don’t limp, if you don’t show your humanity, they will learn to fake it too.
• We want to know the real person. Church, we should lead the way.
• One of the reasons we like to focus on performance, character, morality is that it gives us the appearance of control. You are the story of grace. 
• Your gifts do not come because you repent a lot. Your gifts were given before you repented one time. 

Luke 8

• Luke 8 starts with Jesus on a ministry tour. 
• Twelve is the number of divine government. The government is on his shoulders. He is in charge. Justice flows freely from his throne. He sits on the throne. 
• The woman with an issue with blood – what a horrible title – she has a name, we just don’t know it. 
• Luke 8 stands for you to know that he is totally in control. 
• A man named Jairus has a daughter dying and she’s twelve. And he’s interrupted by a woman bleeding for 12 years. 
• This whole passage is so that you know that God is in control over it all.
• You think you are an exception. How far we have fallen from the gospel of grace.
• “He has the whole world in His hands.”
• Jesus forgives sin. Jesus ministers with forgiveness and resurrection.  
• She was sneaking. No one ever told me that God could use sneaky people. I thought Jesus would reprimand her.  She was hiding. She didn’t want to be discovered.
• Are you hiding, leader? 
• She touches the hem of his garment and she’s healed. Don’t cling to the principle, cling to the person. It’s not the robe or the tassel. It’s the person. It’s not the law that healed the woman, it’s the fulfiller of the law that heals the woman.
• He asks a question because the woman needed to know something. When she realized she couldn’t hide, she came trembling to his feet. “When I touched you, I was healed instantly.”
• “Oh daughter, I stopped the whole proceeding, you were not on the program. I choose you. Your faith has made you well.” What he means is the source of your faith has healed you. 
• Let us return again to the feet of Jesus. Are you weak, weary, burned out? Come to me, I’ll teach you rest. 
• Your shaky, sneaky self at the feet of Jesus has the opportunity to change the world.