INDUCTIVE STUDIES FOR LEADERS - GROUP A

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Looking for projects and inductive Bible studies that will unite and challenge your best leaders. Inductive Studies Group ‘A’ brings you 13 study projects taken from The REAL DEAL leadership workbook that you can copy (up to ten copies allowed) and study with your small group or leadership team.

Assessing Your Life – self assessment project: Take some time to reflect upon your life and write a current ‘life status’ report in this project.

A Leader’s Greatest Asset – Psalm 24: Sooner or later, every man and woman decides where he or she will place their confidence. The authentic person understands that ultimate confidence must be placed in God. It’s not our talent that matters most -- I believe that a leader’s greatest asset is the blessing of God. King David understood this and in Psalm 24 we discover the keys to receiving blessing from God.

How A New Leader Should Think – Joshua 1: Beginning anything is difficult. All the hopes and fears of either success or failure press upon the mind and heart of a new leader. It’s especially tough when you are starting your own season of leadership in the wake of another strong leader. Wondering if you will measure up to the last leader only increases your anxiety. A long time ago Joshua faced such a challenge. He was taking over for one of the real heavy weights of the Old Testament...Moses.
         The Lord had some very specific counsel and encouragement for him. Study Joshua 1:1-9 and see if you can determine what God longs for a new leader to know. Notice the simple success formula God gives for anyone starting something new. Record your thoughts below.

Action vs. Quiet – Mark 1: One of the great tensions that every leader lives with is balancing doing with being – action with contemplation – quiet time before God with difference making in the world. The challenge in this project is to look at Jesus’ life as an example for balancing action and contemplation. Mark 1 contains an average day in the life of Jesus. As you study this chapter, you’ll record your thoughts on balancing action and contemplation.

Defining Authentic Ministry – Colossians 1:24-29: Once a person begins to serve God, good things happen. When a bunch of us all serve together, authentic ministry happens. The evidence of authentic leadership is that real ministry is happening through a man or woman. In Colossians 1:24 –29, the Apostle Paul helps define the difference between authentic ministry and talent driven programs. In this passage you will discover the characteristics of authentic ministry.

The Power of Focus – the priority of the purposeful – Second Timothy: Focus is a powerful force in the life of a person who wants to make a difference. Take light as an example. Light diffused has little power, but if light is focused it can be made into a laser and has great power. 2 Timothy is the Apostle Paul’s last recorded writing. In it he reminds his disciple, Timothy, of the things that he should stay focused upon. This study reminds every leader of the things we should never lose sight of.

A Leader’s Greatest Asset, Part 2 – Psalm 15: Leaders tend to place their confidence in certain things to help them be effective. The Old Testament Psalm writer, Asaph, had an interesting approach to life and leadership. He understood what made the difference for him and he kept that truth in the front of his mind all the time. Asaph states in Psalm 73:28, “But as for me, the nearness of God is my good...” What made the difference for this man? In Psalm 15, Asaph recognized that a leader’s greatest assets were not charisma, energy, finances, or a great team; but rather the blessing and closeness of God. This study will give you the opportunity to reflect upon the twelve marks of someone who stays close to God.

Anatomy of a Quiet Time – Exodus 34: This is Dan Webster’s favorite study project of the set. When a leader comes to God in quiet, what is to happen? Did you know that there are transformations that God causes in the heart of a leader that only get done in quiet? Exodus 34 is a chapter that teaches volumes about the discipline of downshifting and what should happen as we do. In this study you will consider the importance of meeting God in quiet and how you should come to those times.

Recapturing Perspective – Psalm 16: Leading a busy life can be dangerous; it feeds our propensity to forget important truths that have the power to transform our daily lives. King David wrote many Psalms that revealed his ongoing need to recapture perspective. His life, just like our lives, took turns that he didn’t expect. He experienced frustrations with people, family problems, leadership dilemmas and personal fears that all threatened to rob his sense of closeness to God. In Psalm 16, David slows himself down and refocuses his mind on the truths that transformed his life. Your task is to slow yourself down and refocus your mind on the same truths.

Taking Your Pulse – self assessment project: Years ago a respected leader asked me a strange question: “What’s the pulse of your life and ministry these days?” This was his clever way of discovering how I and my ministry were really doing. Pulse is an interesting word. It’s the word we use to describe the rhythm and pressure of blood flowing through our veins. Having a pulse is important - without it – you’re dead. With little trouble we can determine our physical pulse - assessing the pulse of a life, family, ministry or organization can be far more difficult. I know that it’s a leader’s responsibility to keep in touch with the pulse of both his or her life and the ministry, company or organization they are called to lead. Answer the questions in this project and you’ll  discover your life and ministry pulse.

“A” vs “B” Priorities – personal discovery project: Everyone has an opinion concerning how you should spend your time. With all the to do’s of life it’s sometimes difficult to determine the should do’s of life. Effective leader’s clarify the should do’s and do them. To do this well we must each gain a clear understanding between an “A” and a “B” priority. This study helps you distinguish between the two and get on to the should do’s.

Negotiating Life’s Jokers – Passages from Jeremiah: Jeremiah was a man handpicked by God to be a faithful and effective prophet. He demonstrated great authenticity when things didn’t unfold in his life as he thought they should. In this project you will survey Jeremiah’s life with the focus of discovering parallels between his life and yours. You will also be challenged by Jeremiah’s honesty as He questions God when ‘a joker’ (something that you don’t want to happen, but does) comes his way. 

Regret in a Leader’s Life – Psalm 51: Self-inflicted ‘broken world’ experiences come to each leader sooner or later. In this study discover from King David how to manage and move beyond the regret of personal failure.