{"id":5655,"date":"2018-06-11T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artiosmagazine.org\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:22:32","slug":"positional-relational-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/positional-relational-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leadership Conversation: Positional vs Relational Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"
What kind of individual do you picture when you hear the word “leader”? Do you think of well-dressed men and women in a corporate board room? Perhaps instead you picture a pastor speaking to thousands of people at a mega-church, or even a missionary trekking through the jungles of the Amazon to reach a remote native tribe? While there are definitely some leadership positions that look like this, most often the people who exert the greatest influence in our lives do so through relational leadership rather than through positional leadership.<\/p>\n
There are two basic types of leadership:<\/p>\n
Our preconceived notions of positional<\/em> leadership captures only a fraction of what God intended for us as leaders. Contrary to what most people might assume, you don’t need a title or a formal position to be a leader. All you need is Christ\u2014for in Him you are re-created to lead<\/a> in your everyday spheres of influence. You don’t need to be a pastor or a CEO to influence people\u2014all you need is the grace and truth of Christ’s salvation being reflected in your life.<\/p>\n [bctt tweet=”Our preconceived notions of leadership are small and narrow compared to the fullness of God’s plan. – Mary Meadows”]<\/p>\n This is the question explored in Artios’ introductory course Essentials of Vibrant Leadership<\/a>. God uses every facet of our lives to shape our leadership journey. He works through our personality, experience, family situation, cultural setting, and every other particularity that makes us unique. Amazingly, God is shaping each one of us into individual and completely unique leaders.<\/p>\n So don’t worry if your life isn’t in alignment with your subconscious definition of leadership. After all, there will always be talented individuals that God calls into positional leadership roles, but we need to realize that not everyone is called to be a pastor or a missionary. Maybe, God has placed you<\/em> in a unique position to use your specific\u00a0relational<\/em>\u00a0influence to further His Kingdom.<\/a><\/p>\n [bctt tweet=”God has placed each of us in a unique context to influence people for His Kingdom. – Mary Meadows”]<\/p>\n As followers of Christ, we are recreated to lead. In 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Paul explains this re-creation and describes our newfound role as ambassadors for Christ:<\/p>\n 17\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore, if anyone is\u00a0in Christ, he is\u00a0a new creation.\u00a0The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.<\/span>\u00a018\u00a0<\/sup>All this is from God,\u00a0who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us\u00a0the ministry of reconciliation;<\/span>\u00a019\u00a0<\/sup>that is, in Christ God was reconciling\u00a0the world to Himself,\u00a0not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us\u00a0the message of reconciliation.<\/span>\u00a020\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore,\u00a0we are ambassadors for Christ,\u00a0God making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.<\/span>\u00a021\u00a0<\/sup>For our sake He made Him to be sin\u00a0who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become\u00a0the righteousness of God.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Artios Christian College embraces an equipping model of leadership. Therefore, our goal is to equip each unique leader to recognize their potential for relational leadership and embrace their spheres of influence.<\/p>\n Here to take a deeper look at the difference between positional and relational leadership are the co-directors of Artios Christian College<\/a>, Israel Steinmetz and Amber Mann Riggs.<\/p>\n Are you ready to become intentional about your leadership calling?<\/p>\n What kind of individual do you picture when you hear the word “leader”? Do you think of well-dressed men and women in a corporate board room? Perhaps instead you picture a pastor speaking to thousands of people at a mega-church, or even a missionary trekking through the jungles of the Amazon to reach a remote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":5389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[560,70,72],"tags":[205,349],"yoast_head":"\nHow does God Shape Relational Leaders?<\/h3>\n
The Artios Model<\/h3>\n
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