Lead by the Name: Living Out Leadership
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:4-7
Leading by the name above all names, Jesus Christ, is not about rituals. It is about living out a relationship with Him. Leaders who desire to lead through Jesus Christ should avoid the religious world of rituals and dive into a deep relationship with Him.
The book of Deuteronomy teaches us how to pursue a life marked by a deep relationship with God. The book points to the Promised Land, but not without a love of God expressed through obedience to His will according to the covenant He created. It emphasizes a relationship with our Creator, not a set of rituals.
Verse 4 starts by teaching us who the Lord is. If you are a follower of Christ, you might be tempted to say that, of course, God is the leader of my life! But let’s look very deep into our lives as leaders. Are all the decisions I make for His Glory or my own? In verse 5, he hits the nail on the head by explaining what it means to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and strength. Verse 6 teaches us that the commandments should be on our hearts, always with us and within us. Then in verse 7, we are reminded that our faith is part of our every living, breathing moment; it is not a ritual. It is part of our sitting, walking, lying down, and getting up.
When we leaders look at Deuteronomy 6, we see the living out principle takes us to a place of total dependency on Him, Jesus Christ. It is only through Him that we can be better leaders. That’s what Lead by the Name means. Jesus Christ is the only one who lived a life perfectly aligned with God’s will. Therefore, He is the only one we should imitate. In our sitting, walking, lying down, and getting up. In everything.
Let Jesus be the model in how we live and not simply a ritual in our lives!
Eduardo Mendes
Founder and President
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