SERMON OUTLINE:
• 1: Why is leadership in the church important? (1 Peter 5:1)
• 2: What are the main functions of leadership in the church? (1 Peter 5:2a)
• 3: What should motivate leaders in the church? (1 Peter 5:2b-4)
• 4: How should the whole church respond to this? (1 Peter 5:5)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
• Who has been a godly leader in your life? What made them inBluential to you personally? What traits of theirs do you most want to imitate?
• Where have you seen Christians struggle because of bad leadership? How does this passage speak to where those leaders got off target?
• Why is grace the essential ingredient for churches and their leadership culture? How are we doing as a church with our culture?