Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 24 October 2022 Message for Monday. Read Daily Fountain Devotional 24 October 2022 for Anglican Communion
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TOPIC: Leadership By Strategic Influence
TEXT: Acts 15: 12-29(NKJV)
Daily Fountain Devotional 24 October 2022 Message
James the brother of Christ was one of the leaders of the Jerusalem Church in the early apostolic age. In today’s passage, after an argument in response to whether Gentile Christians in Antioch needed to circumcise to be saved, James played a prominent role – providing strategic influence (though he wasn’t the presiding officer at that meeting). James was the last-named figure to speak after Peter. He delivered what is called ‘decision speech’ in a wise, cool and collected manner.
His opinion so greatly influenced the council’s decision that it was eventually adopted as their ruling. He suggested among the other things that circumcision was not necessary for salvation but that the new converts should abstain from being polluted by idols and sexual immorality (vv.19-24). The Apostles including James came together to settle issues on Church doctrines that could divide the Church.
Many people today abuse positions handed to them, by way of exerting unnecessary rigidity, while others lord it over their subjects as if all powers belonged to them. However, we have observed that by tactics of wisdom as well as calm and sound words of enlightenment, greater number of people can be easily influenced for good.
When you are in a meeting and arguments capable of creating grudges and hindering the move of God arise, what usually is your role? Would you not rather be a mediator of a soft-landing, even though no particular office is attached to you, or would you be an agent to sponsor anarchy?
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