Bringing Leadership Home

Bringing Leadership Home

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 11
1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 5
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Here is the organisational chart of the Christian home. Putting it in a straight forward way, the husband is the head of the wife, Christ is the head of the husband and God is the head of Christ.

The husband isn't the overall head and the woman still has Christ and God as the overall head.

God isn't an author of confusion and it's good we understand Him and His systems to live orderly and peaceful lives.

The scriptures didn't say the head of every woman is every man. You are only the head of your wife and not of every woman. Man isn't the head of the female gender. A husband is only the head of the woman he is duly married to.

This is purely a leadership system for the home front. The common problem is that we treat home leadership differently than we treat leadership in the society and in business.

The whole idea of Bringing Leadership Home is to encourage us use the same leadership principles that had built great nations and great corporations to the affairs of the home to build it.

Maybe we need to see marriage as an enterprise first. When we consider that God was out finding a help meet for the man and so a wife came out, it will be easier for us to see that God was only looking for an assistant for him on the job he had given him.

When God couldn't find a help suitable for him outside of him, God took out the female side of man to make a woman to fill that space. Don't forget man was originally made male and female.

So God split him into two and so made him to help himself. The assignment they had before they were split remains the same, the blessedness that was upon them remain the same all they needed to do was to be joined back together through marriage and start their 'company' with the man being the CEO and the woman the COO.

God split them not to destroy their oneness but to create a company, a partnership where the man will be the senior partner with both pursuing same goals and vision with their dinstinct peculiarities, capabilities and potentials.

No senior partner will unilaterally make certain  levels of corporate decisions without first consulting with his board members, taking their own submissions and making robust meetings with them to arrive at what will move the company forward.

But same man who will go all the way to do all the intricate and painstaking things to make the company stand will get home and do otherwise but would expect the home to perform as much as the business performs..

If many handle their businesses as they handle their homes, we'll have more business failures than we already have.

The same goes for the wife. The woman who will agree to whatever decision the board takes at her office even if not in line with the ideas she submitted would still work overtime without complaining to see those decisions produce success. But at home, the same woman won't take what her husband says once it's not in line with her ideas.

Why are we ready to build things that aren't primarily ours abiding by all the rules in the book and we aren't ready to bring same home, where we will eventually rest our heads?

Maybe a lot haven't developed their leadership potentials and may not be schooled in corporate ethics of leadership and subordination enough to even practice it at work not to speak of bringing it home...

But I must say that the same principles that'll build a great nation will also build a great home and the same errors that will destroy a nation or business corporation will also destroy a home. If we handle our businesses as carelessly as many handle their homes those business will fail even faster than the homes crumble.

Bringing Leadership Home is all about bringing home the same good corporate principles that build nations and businesses to build our homes, from leadership, to management, to decision making to financial to human resources management, bargaining, procurement systems, customer care and relations, goal setting and so on...

Maybe that's why King Solomon made this statement by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit...

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 24
27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

Because you'll need those things you used to prepare your work in the field to make it fit for yourself to also build your home if it will be fit for you and other stakeholders... Let's do it!

Some thoughts from GMI Ministers Conference on marriage last Saturday.

Good morning...