What Does Christlike Leadership Look Like? | Becoming a Christlike Leader Ep. 1

What matters most in a leader: what they achieve, or who they are becoming?

Joe Handley opens the series by placing character at the centre of leadership. Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, he explores how humility, integrity, service and compassion should shape a leader’s competence and influence.

Episode 1 of Becoming a Christlike Leader

A four-part series for Christian leaders and those who develop them, created together by the Lausanne Movement and the World Evangelical Alliance.

Episode Outline

00:00 What do you most want others to remember about you?
02:39 Joe Handley on The Crisis of Leadership
04:39 What is the Biggest Difference Between how the World Defines Leadership and how Jesus Defines Leadership?
08:33 Learning Servanthood
10:38 Series Overview: Sermon on the Mount
11:06 Wanjiru Gitau Testimony | You Are the Light of the World
15:17 What’s one Trait that makes a Christlike Leader unmistakable from the kind of leadership in your own context?
18:09 Closing Invitation & Prayer

Speaker's Bio

Joseph W Handley, Jr.

Catalyst for Leadership Development

Joseph W Handley, Jr is the president of Asian Access. Previously he was the founding director of Azusa Pacific University’s Office of World Mission and lead mission pastor at Rolling Hills Covenant Church. He co-led one of the first multi-national high school mission congresses in Mexico City in 1996 and is a contributing blogger for the Billy Graham Center’s Gospel-Life Blog. Joe serves as co-catalyst for the Lausanne Movement in leadership development and on the advisory teams for the Nozomi Project, BiblicalTraining.org, and DualReach, as well as on the board for ReIgnite Hope. Joe strives to accelerate leaders for mission movements. Learn more about Joe: https://www.asianaccess.org/senior-leaders/bio-joe-handley