Family Seminar, Patna

1. FAMILY
LEADERSHIP
Domenic Marbaniang

2. Modern Cry: (Empower 21
Asia)
▶ 1. Fathers
▶ 2. Contemporary Language- Understandable
▶ 3. Genuine Worship

3. Different Models
▶ Pyramid Leadership (Military)
▶ Functional Leadership (Team)
▶ Situational Leadership (acc to situation)
▶ Servant Leadership (To serve)
▶ Shepherd Leadership (To lead)
▶ Family Leadership (To be a good father)

4. Biblical Basis of Family
Leadership
▶ JESUS - I & Father are one. You be one. Fellowship with
the Father
▶ PAUL - Father to Timothy. "If someone can't rule family,
must not be appointed in Church either“
▶ The Power of Sonship/Adoption
▶ The Heavenly Model emphasizes Family Leadership

5. The Church is a Family (Not
Business or Organization)
▶ Modern Evils of Organized Religion and Leadership
Systems
▶ Money-oriented not Father-oriented
▶ Gradation-system not Family-system
▶ Compromising Structures (Snares) – Save the structure
somehow mentality – Not Faith-Structures
▶ Psychological Instruments (People treated as objects of
use) – Not Spiritual Methods

6. Biblical Pictures for Family
Leadership
▶ Household of God (Eph.2:19- oikeos: “belonging to a
house or family”)
▶ Family of God (Eph.3:15 – patria – lineage running back
to some progenitor, ancestry. Tribe)
▶ Bride of Christ (Rev.19:7; Eph.5:22)
▶ Sons of God (teknon 1Jn.3:1; hiuos Rom.8:14)

7. Biblical Principles of Family
Leadership
▶ Love (1Cor.13)
▶ Submission. Reverence. (Authority of God. Eph.5:21)
▶ Submission (Headship. Eph.5:21, 1Tim.3:4,11)
▶ Wisdom (Pro.14:1; 31)
▶ Example (Jn.13:15; Phil.3:17; 1Cor.4:16; 11:1; 2Th.3:9;
1Tim.4:12; 1Pet.2:21; 1Pet.5:3)
▶ Faithfulness (Heb.3:6; 1Tim.5:4; Eph.6:1; 1Cor.7:3-5)