To be a faithful follower you must imitate who you follow.

You cannot separate imitation from followership.

There are two scriptures that addresses the issue of followership, a careful look at these scriptures will unveil to you two important factors for followership, imitation, and pattern.

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 King James Version (KJV)

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1 in Other Translations

1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

2 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

3 And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

4 It pleases me that you continue to remember and honor me by keeping up the traditions of the faith I taught you.

Your call into assistance and followership of your Lead Pastor is a call to help. You are specially anointed to help him. The anointing on you is to help him see to the fulfillment of his mandate, and vision.  God has given you that grace that he did not give to your Senior Pastor, and Paul speaking, said, "as God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain."

If you will become a good helper, you will become a follower intentionally. It's by following that you help. How you help will be based on how you follow.

Followership is adherence to a leader, to adhere means faithful support for someone or a cause.

Paul in the above scriptures stressed on three things, followership, pattern and imitation.  If you are following you can't ignore the laid down patterns. Patterns come from structure, instructions, how your Pastor says a thing should be done, when it should be done. All of these and more are the laid down patterns.

He has laid the foundation of the ministry, came up with structure and system. Every follower or helper can actually build on what has been laid, but Paul's admonition is, you must be careful how you build, and no matter what you are building build in line with the laid down pattern.

For emphasis sake he said in the next scriptures "imitate me". The English language dictionary defines imitation as to follow as a model or pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

You cannot claim to be a follower without being an imitator, your Senior Pastor therefore should be your copy, model, pattern that's how there can be a resemblance.

The disciples of Jesus imitated, and patterned after Christ. In service, conduct, words, even how they performed miracles. It was easy to see the semblance of Christ in them.

I hope you learn and apply.

LEADERSHIP AND OBSERVATION

Good morning.

The power of leadership is in some factors that are not common in followers. But these factors are in everybody created by God. The only difference is that a leader trains himself on how to use them. And most times it takes discipline on the path of the leader to make use of these factors.

A leader must be OBSERVANT. Observation is a key factor in leadership, hence a leader is equated with the eagle. The eagle can spot a prey miles from the sky and come for it's prey swiftly. A leader by observation can also sight a problem then provide solution swiftly. 

Observation is the act of noticing or viewing something carefully with attention to details. A leader that uses this factor will always be at advantage. 

There is no limit to the possibility of a leader that's very observant. You must learn the act of looking at a situation critically then find a solution to it. Observation is not taking a one time look at a situation then draw conclusion, you may not find the answer at first look. It may require repeatedly looking at the situation, to find where the problem lies.

For instance, if you have two similar equipments, and one gets bad, to be able to fix the one that's bad, you must observe the one that's good. It will serve a guide to fix the other one.

Even if there is no existing good one on the scene, there are other things you can do to find solution. You could Google or check YouTube to see how it's done.

Observation is the secret of all scientific discoveries, creation and inventions. You can't create or invent without observation. 

There's nothing you can't do, if only as a leader you care to apply this factor amongst others.

Observation is what makes science different from other field of studies. Observation is also a factor that makes leaders different from themselves.

I hope you learn and apply?

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