Reaching a Generation Leadership Academy Forums KM-09 C6 Discussion 1 Reply To: KM-09 C6 Discussion 1

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Calitz Yache
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Yache Calitz: Discussion 1

A leader should spiritually transform his/her own family by nurturing his/her own spiritual disciplines. The leader should discover him/herself as a person of Christian virtue and character. Good leaders must first lead themselves to Christ before being able to transform his/her family spiritually. The leader should help improve each family member’s mental, emotional and spiritual health.

Strategies that a spiritual leader can use to help his/her family grow includes: having prayer sessions together daily to communicate with God and to ask for spiritual growth or any other situation that the family has to work through together. The leader could urge his/her family to go to church together, study scripture together and even actively talking about spiritual matters. Spiritually should be made apart of daily family life. Families could also fast together to keep each other accountable and to encourage each other. A lot of valuable spiritual conversations could arise by doing these things.

The dangers for families that are led by spiritual leaders and vocational ministers could include: stress/burnout due to different responsibilities and schedules that they might have to face. This is a danger because the well-being of the spiritual leader/vocational minister affects the well-being of those around them [family]. These leaders might also experience difficulty when dealing with their work-life balance, in other words they will struggle to give equal attention to both their families and their congregation. Thus the spiritual formation of the family will be negatively affected because of the fact that balance has been broken.

A spiritual leader’s care for his/her family has a significant impact on the families in the congregation. The care acts as a visual example of how one should care for family. The spiritual leader acts as a role model as he/she is in contact with all the members of the congregation. A good example of care and help with spiritual formation towards his/her family shown by the spiritual leader will enable the motivation for spiritual growth within a lot of different families in the congregation. It could also build trust and spirituality within the community.