PowerPak Collection Series: Leading In Your Youth Group
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Imagine a school where the leaders in student government, academics, the arts, and sports brought out the best in themselves and their peers. Impossible?? Maybe not!
Tommy Nelson's new PowerPak series by John C. Maxwell adapts for ages 10 - 14 the leadership techniques from Maxwell's New York Times bestseller Developing the Leader within You.
In the PowerPak series, Maxwell gives a simple step-by-step plan for any young person to learn leadership skills before reaching high school or college. Topics covered include peer relationships, influence, priorities, integrity, problem solving, and self-discipline.
John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.
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PowerPak Collection Series - John C. Maxwell
Leading in Your
Youth Group
John C. Maxwell
Leadership Books for Students
(Based on Developing the Leader Within You)
Leading from the Lockers:
Student Edition
ISBN 0-8499-7722-3
Leading from the Lockers:
Guided Journal
ISBN 0-8499-7723-1
The PowerPak Series
Leading Your Sports Team
ISBN 0-8499-7725-8
Leading at School
ISBN 0-8499-7724-X
Leading in Your Youth Group
ISBN 0-8499-7726-6
Leading As a Friend
ISBN 0-8499-7727-4
These books are outstanding. John Maxwell’s leadership principles have been communicated in a way that any student can understand and practice. Take them and go make a difference in your world.
—DR. TIM ELMORE,
Vice President of Leadership Development, EQUIP;
Author of Nurturing the Leader in Your Child
Leading in Your
Youth Group
by
John C. Maxwell
with
Mark Littleton
Leading_In_Your_Youth_Group_0003_001POWERPAK SERIES: LEADING IN YOUR YOUTH GROUP
Based on John C. Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You.
Copyright © 2001 by Injoy Inc.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts in reviews.
Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tommy Nelson®, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Special thanks to Ron Luce and Teen Mania for providing research materials for this book.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the International Children’s Bible, New Century Version, copyright © 1983, 1986, 1988.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maxwell, John C., 1947–
Leading in your youth group / originated by John C. Maxwell; adapted by Mark Littleton.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8499-7726-6
1. Christian Leadership. 2. Youth—Religious life. I. Littleton, Mark R., 1950– II. Title.
BV652.1 .M367 2001
259'.23—dc21
2001030960
Printed in the United States of America
01 02 03 04 05 PHX 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
1. Me Lead?
2. Influence: The Way to Lead
3. Focus, Focus, Focus
4. Living the Truth
5. Change Makes Things Happen
6. Tough Problem, Tougher Leader
7. A Leading Attitude
8. Relationships: The Fabric of Life
9. No Grunt Work, No Glory
1
Me Lead?
Being a leader isn’t easy. Remember Moses? When God called him at the burning bush in Exodus 3, what did Moses do? He offered every excuse in the book to get out of it.
But God knew better. He knew not only what Moses was—a failed deliverer of Israel who was now herding sheep—but what Moses would become—one of the greatest leaders in history. Moses had the right stuff.
What kind of leader is God molding you to become?
Leading with Style
You might think, I DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT SKILLS! I can’t even talk in front of a group.
Everyone finds these things difficult at first. It’s a matter of trying them and not giving up when things get tough.
I think of Paco. Not someone you’d immediately consider a leader, he still attended the usual youth group functions. On an overnight retreat in which several non-Christians were invited by their Christian friends, the groups all went out hiking. They left their food near their tents. When they returned an animal had gotten into their food, and one of the groups had nothing left to eat or drink. No one had brought very much food for the brief trip, and there wasn’t a way to get more. Paco asked his group if they’d like to share. They agreed.
GOD DOESN’T CHOOSE GREAT LEADERS. HE CHOOSES GOOD PEOPLE WHOM HE MAKES INTO GREAT LEADERS.
Paco and his youth group approached the other group and offered to share their food. As they ate and talked, the boys all became friends. At the end of the retreat, one of the visitors thanked Paco,