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Who Are You Trying to Impress?
by Steve May
Text: Galatians 1:1-24
Topic: How to be a positive influence on others
Big Idea: We need to be people of influence.
Keywords: Leadership; Example; Influence
Introduction:
- Illustration: May opens with a brief joke about a man who has no influence trying to influence people to read a book about influence.
- Big Idea: We need to be people of influence.
- Illustration: May illustrates the concept of influence by recounting a conversation between two NFL commentators about a coach’s influence on his team.
- Paul was a person of influence.
- Galatians 1:21-24
- Galatians 1:10
Seek God’s approval above all else.
- Galatians 1:10
- Who you most want to please will determine how much influence you have in this life.
- If you’re seeking first to please God, sometimes you will have to make decisions that are unpopular with people.
- Illustration: May tells the story of a pastor who encouraged him to memorize and repeat Galatians 1:10 to himself every day.
Find god’s mission for your life.
- Galatians 1:11,15
- Whatever God reveals to you will always be consistent with his Word, and it will also be recognized by God’s seasoned leaders.
- Seek God, let him reveal his purpose for your life, and let it set your heart on fire so that nothing else matters.
Invest the time it takes to establish credibility.
- Paul’s message and ministry were not based on a short-term whim, for he had stood the test of time and proved that he was in it for the long haul.
- Illustration: May tells the story of a disappointed would-be bookstore owner who was too impatient to realize what he believed was God’s calling in his life.
- Illustration: May holds up the example of Rick Warren, who intended to be at one church for his entire life and, though the church has become famous and he has written best-selling books, who continues to pastor that same church.
- Illustration: May quotes study about the amount of time concert pianists prepare for their career, jokes about his short-lived piano training, then states, “If, however, you approach your mission with the intensity of a concert pianist, then the result of your life’s work will be glorious.”
Conclusion:
- Illustration: May references professional athlete Charles Barkley’s statement, “I am not a role model,” to contend that we all have influence, whether we like it or not.
- The question is will we have positive or negative influence?
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