This document discusses the importance of self-control and discipline for leaders. It provides examples of two influential leaders, Bron Davis Clifford and Dawson Trotman, who both died young but had very different outcomes due to their discipline (or lack thereof). Clifford fell from leadership due to drinking and financial issues, while Trotman continued growing his ministry until saving a girl's life and drowning at age 50. The document emphasizes that effective leadership requires maintaining control of oneself, one's relationships, and actions through regular spiritual discipline.

1. Leadership As SELF

2. How Should Leaders See Life
Leaders see life as it could be. They are
always seeing a little farther, a little
more than those around them.
-John Maxwell

3. Bron Davis Clifford
 One of the greatest orators America has ever
seen
 Was known to religious leaders and
intellectual leaders as “the greatest preacher
since apostle Paul”
 At age 25 he had touched more lives,
influenced more leaders and set more
attendance records than any clergyman his
age in American history
 Died in his mid thirties

4. Dawson Trotman
 Bright, artistic, highly articulate
 An exhorter, always responded passionately
to a challenge and never feared making
enemies
 At age 27 set up The Navigators
 Suffered a lot of verbal attacks but carried
on
 Fully believed the promise in Psalm 119:165
 Died at age fifty

5. How did They Die
 Trotman drowned while attempting to save a
girl’s life in New York
 Left behind an organization ministering
worldwide with a staff of thousands

6. How did They Die
 Clifford was toppled from leadership by
drinking and issues of financial impropriety
 He was separated from his wife and children
 Died in a third rate motel in Texas
 Left behind nothing

7. The Need For Self Control
(1Cor9:24-27)
 The fundamental element of leadership is
self control
 Strive to maintain a firm discipline in every
area of life and in every waking hour
 Leadership demands a controlled lifestyle
 A leader must build his SELF, his
RELATION and ACTION
 Must have a regular program of prayer
meditation and study of the Word

8. SRA
Self
 Principles concerned with the leader’s
personal efficiency and integrity
Relation
 Principles concerned with the leader’s
place as group coordinator and motivator
Action
 Principles concerned with the leader’s
role as visionary and goal-setter

9. Discipline (Job 36:10-12)
 The leader must exercise discipline in every
area
 Spiritual (2 Tim2:5; 1Tim4:15)
 Regular exercise (1 Tim 4:7-8)
 Scheduling & Planning
 Guarding thought (Prov4:23; Luke 6:45)
 Restraining speech (James1:26)
 Disciplines stand together to give mutual
protection and provide shelter under which
sound leadership can be exercised

10. The TOP Leader
Trust
 Leadership is a responsibility which you
hold in trust from others and ultimately
from God (1Thess2:4; 1Tim1:11)
Organize
 Comprehend and internalize the three
categories of the principles of leadership
Persist
 Hang in there. Learn from mistakes. Do
not quit (Hebrews10:35-36)

11. 1 Peter 5:8

12. Leadership costs time
and effort. Aim for
mastery.
Never give up!
2 Corinthians 4:7
2 Timothy 4:7-8