This document discusses family leadership and outlines different leadership models. It argues that the church should be modeled as a family rather than a business or organization. It provides biblical support for family leadership, citing examples from Jesus, Paul, and biblical pictures of the family of God, bride of Christ, and sons of God. Key biblical principles of family leadership outlined include love, submission, wisdom, being a godly example, and faithfulness.

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)