Preneur Buyer, Someone Willing to Buy

Inspiring Entrepreneurial Leaders V100 Leaders’ Conference, October 21, 2015

1. Definitions in spirate To breathe entre Between preneur Buyer, someone willing to buy

Entrepreneur One who undertakes an enterprise, especially a commercial one, often at personal financial risk.

Leaders Someone who goes out the front

In the church context: Someone with initiative, who is willing to risk starting new ministries

2. Examples

Starting a new discipleship relationship

Starting a new Bible study

Starting a new Church

What else do we expect

3. How do we inspire entrepreneurial leaders?

1) A passion for God’s name and glory.

1 Kings 8:43 Hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.

Nehemiah 2:3 Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?

Matthew 6:9 Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

John Piper: “Mission exists because praise doesn’t.”

2) Getting the Gospel

David Cook, “Moderator’s Comments”

According to the Roman church, the Pope is the successor of Peter, the apostle....

1 In his historic speech to the joint meeting of Congress, where he had freedom to say whatever he liked, and address the nation (google the speech and read it for yourself), I found disappointment, not for what Francis said, he spoke of the law of Moses, of God, of life, respect and family, I was disappointed because of what the Pope did not say. He made no mention of Jesus, no mention of heaven, hell, judgement, grace, redemption, repentance or forgiveness. All the elements of God’s momentous message to the world were completely ignored. This is tragic, from any Christian leader and particularly one who leads 1.2 billion people.

Are you Gospel-centred and Gospel-driven?

3) Examples from Church History

Boniface (672-754)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

William Booth (1829-1912)

Gresham Machen (1881-1937)

Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)

Who most inspires you from the history of the church?

4) Your own example

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 9 It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

What kind of an example do you think provide to others?

4. Equipping

Education—a love of learning

Encouragement

Accountability

Realistic goal-setting

A formal training process: