Apostolic Mentoring

No Miracle Required: The Leader Who Loves Anyway / Aucun miracle n'est requis: le leader qui aime quand même ... English & French

• Rev. Charles G. Robinette • Season 5 • Episode 15

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What if the most powerful tool in your leadership arsenal isn't your expertise, your position, or even your ability to perform miracles—but simply your capacity to love? Pastor Ryan Franklin challenges conventional leadership wisdom with his message "No Miracle Required: The Leader Who Loves Anyway," revealing how true influence emerges not from power but from presence.

Drawing from the story of the woman at the well, Franklin illuminates how Jesus prioritized seeing, knowing, and loving people above demonstrating His power or authority. This counterintuitive approach didn't just change one woman's life—it transformed an entire community. The parallels to modern leadership are striking, as Franklin explains: "Leadership isn't just about telling people the truth, it's about walking with them through the truth."

The teaching gains profound confirmation when Missionary Charles Robinette shares a divine encounter from his recent Ethiopia crusade. Before ministering, his team received an unexpected prophetic word: "These people don't need your miracles; they need your love and compassion." The result was a remarkable "baptism of love" that preceded over 600 people receiving the Holy Ghost and numerous healings. This divine synchronicity underscores the message's timeliness for apostolic leaders worldwide.

Franklin dives into the neuroscience of character development, revealing how true growth happens in relationships that balance both grace and truth. Some leaders operate like hammers—all correction and pressure—while others function like rose petals—avoiding difficult conversations at all costs. Jesus modeled perfect leadership by creating environments where truth could surface within relationships characterized by grace and acceptance.

This transformative session culminates in a powerful time of prayer, as leaders worldwide seek a fresh baptism of compassion. The challenge remains: who in your life needs your presence more than your position? Who needs to be seen, known, and loved anyway? As you wrestle with these questions, you'll discover that leadership isn't primarily about what you accomplish, but about who you become and how you help others become their best selves through the power of love.

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In the name of the Lord, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I plead the blood of Jesus over this apostolic mentoring session today. God anoint every one of these apostolic leaders. God Speak into their lives, equip them for kingdom service God, speak into their lives, equip them for kingdom service God, god in your name, in the name of the Lord, in the name of the Lord, in the name you, lord, hallelujah, mighty God. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, hallelujah, oh. I plead the blood of Jesus over this apostolic mentoring session. In the name of the Lord, in the name of the Lord, in the name of the Lord, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of the Lord, everybody and greetings to you from Geneva, switzerland.

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Glory to God everyone and greetings from Geneva, switzerland.

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I am so excited to be hailing from this great apostolic city.

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I am so happy to be among this great apostolic city.

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We, as you know, have a great history and love for the nation of Switzerland and for all of the apostolics that are here in this great church, the Pentecostals of Geneva.

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And, of course, to be doing apostolic mentoring today from Geneva is just a great joy. We just came in from Ethiopia.

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Where we had a great, great crusade in from Ethiopia.

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Where we had a great, great crusade in that nation. It's been 23 some years since we have been able to have boots on the ground and do a crusade in that field.

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And I can't tell you or express to you how emotional it was to be back boots on the ground in Ethiopia just last week.

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As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure that I can express to you the depth of emotions that I went through.

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But as we came pulling in Team Bus came pulling into city of Anole where the crusade was being held.

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Alors que le bus arrivait dans la ville où la croisade devait avoir lieu.

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I obviously wasn't prepared for the emotional journey that it was going to be.

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Je n'étais pas vraiment préparé pour le voyage émotionnel que cela serait.

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Because I started weeping as I saw the line of people singing and dancing and they created this tunnel for us to drive our vehicle through of the people worshiping the Lord.

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And I just started weeping uncontrollably.

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And all the Billy Cole crusades came flooding back and the some million soul revival that was had during those crusades just the memories of those experiences came flooding back. But to see the hunger of the people, the love of those leaders and how desperate they were to have us come back alongside of them in the partnership of faith to help them accomplish something great. In Ethiopia, friends, it was something special. We had 668 people receive the Holy Ghost, 210 children receive the Holy Ghost, some 160. Something miracles we had many blind people received their sight, many deaf people received their hearing, many people that were crippled in some way or another. God miraculously and notably healed them as well healed them as well.

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We are already planning to return next year in January to do another crusade in that country. It will be January 26 through February 2nd of next year.

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Ce sera du 26 janvier au 2 février de l'an prochain.

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We want to encourage all of our apostolic mentoring family and Global Harvest family. Put that in your mind, start praying about it and, if the Lord speaks to you, we would love to have all of you come and be a part of serving the nation of Ethiopia.

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And I certainly don't want to miss the opportunity to honor Bishop Fakada. Bishop Fakada is a great apostolic leader in Ethiopia and doing a dynamic job, and we are so thrilled that the Lord has knit our hearts together with a great leader To accomplish a great kingdom purpose in Ethiopia. And I just want to tell you the best is yet to come. I felt the Holy Ghost tell us multiple times in our apostolic mentoring sessions there in Ethiopia. That we better be careful about being paralyzed looking over our shoulder.

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Because what is ahead of God's great church is going to just be so much bigger and better than anything we have ever seen in the past.

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Because what is ahead of God's great church is so much bigger than anything we have ever seen in the past.

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We are so excited to be on Apostolic Mentoring today and, of course, to be a part of this great global mission of equipping millions to reach billions. But today we are just thrilled to have Pastor Ryan Franklin back on Apostolic Mentoring mentoring.

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He is the author of the Christian Leader Blueprint.

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And Christian Leader, blueprint you. French speaker.

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Christian Leader Blueprint.

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And you of course know we've promoted this book many times in Apostolic Mentoring. But I'm going to put the link in here again because if you have not yet bought it, you better do yourself and the kingdom a favor and get out and buy this great book.

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C'est un grand livre. Si je veux mettre le lien dans le chat pour ceux qui n'ont pas encore acheté, je vous conseille de l'acheter parce que c'est un grand livre. I I also want to encourage everybody on apostolic mentoring and everybody that's a part of Global Harvest Crusades.

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I'm going to put a link to where you can fill out a Christian leader self-assessment.

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Là je vais mettre un lien pour que vous puissiez avoir vous faire votre évaluation personnelle de chrétien.

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I did it and I didn't like the results.

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Je l'ai fait et je n'ai pas aimé le résultat.

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So I redid it and I still didn't like the results, but it helped me anyhow and it would be a great, great blessing to you. It's free of charge. You can do this Christian leader self-assessment free of charge on Pastor Franklin's website and you need to do this. It will help you really look at who you are, what you are. Areas that you are strong, areas that you are weak Might even reveal some areas that you need to sweep further under the rug that you need to sweep further under the rug.

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I'm just kidding. That's not apostolic at all. You got to deal with it. You have to translate Sister Karina.

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You can't just ignore things when I say them like that Did you say exactly what I said.

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Okay. I'm going to stand with you, I believe you. Okay, I'm going to stand with you, I believe you. Okay. Then also, you need to get connected with Pastor Franklin's the Christian Leader Made Simple podcast.

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It's one of my favorite podcasts. You also need to connect with the podcast of the brother, because it's one of my favorites.

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And I'm going to put all of these links in the chat here in just a few moments, but they are already on the Facebook in the Facebook information area, and I encourage everybody get the book, get subscribed to the podcast and do the self-assessment. It is so valuable.

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I encourage everyone to buy the book, to connect to the podcast and to do the evaluation. It has so much value.

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Brother Franklin, we love you. Sir, thank you for being with us again. Please take your liberty, as always.

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Thank you, brother Robinette, and I'm so thankful to be with you today and your amazing audience. Thank you, pastor Robinette. I'm very happy to be with you today and your amazing audience. I love you and love what you do for the kingdom of God, and I'm so honored to be on Apostolic Mentoring again today. Now my lights are currently blinking. We have a bad storm coming into Alexandria, so pray that my electricity does not go out. If it does, I'll grab my cell phone and we'll keep going in the dark.

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If it does, I'll grab my cell phone and we'll keep going in the dark. Two things I want to share with you before I get started.

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Brother Robinette. It's called From Silence to Clarity, how Missionary Charles Robinette learned to hear from God. I'm telling you now you don't want to miss that episode, go subscribe so you don't miss that episode. Second thing I want to mention is I have a special offer for this particular audience. Brother Robinette doesn't even know about this, but at the end, if you will follow this until the end, I have a special offer for you.

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And I think you will want to hear this it's going to bless you and bless the kingdom of God.

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So stay tuned to the end. I want to share a lesson with you today. Now, you're not going to like this. I'm calling it. No miracle required, the leader who loves anyway, and I'm already making Brother Robinette squirm a little bit in his chair, but just hang in there with me. Leadership isn't always about knowing what to do. Leadership can be confusing at times, and there's probably times where you have felt stuck Maybe you're leading a ministry or a small group, or even in your own family and you felt like nothing you could say or do would make a difference. I've been there many times. I was sitting across from John in my office, this office right here and yes, I'm changing his name to protect the innocent. He was a leader in one of our ministries at POA. John had not been to church in three months and I didn't even notice it.

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John had not been to church in three months and I didn't even notice it. No one noticed and no one reached out. And here he was, hurt and alone, and he felt like an outcast. And he was there that day to inform me that he wasn't coming back to POA. And I felt this ache deep in the pit of my stomach. Everything within me wanted a miracle for John in that moment. Fire from heaven.

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Something to sort of shake him up, something to wake him up.

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But there was no miracle.

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There was no flash of light.

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It was just me and John.

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And so I just sat with him and I listened and his anger turned into guilt, and then from guilt to shame, as he poured his heart out to me and I sat there and I loved him anyway. And that love shifted something in him From shame to surprise, from surprise to loved anyway, and then to just he felt loved. And in those moments it's tempting to think that leadership requires a miracle or that we have to do something supernatural or nothing will ever change. You know, I love miracles just as much as Brother Robinette.

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I want and need miracles in my life, but leadership isn't about miracles as much as it's about presence, because, more than a miracle, people need a leader who sees them.

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They need a leader who knows them and who loves them.

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anyway, and I would say that there's no better example of this than Jesus and the day that he met the woman at the well and on his way to Galilee, jesus chose to pass through Samaria, where he met the woman in the well While he was in Galilee.

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the Lord chose to pass through Samaria.

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This was a place that Jews avoided.

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And he sat by a well at noon.

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This was the hottest part of the day.

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And that's when this woman came. She was a Samaritan woman, all along. And she didn't expect to see anyone. And certainly not a Jewish man willing to speak to her. But Jesus purposely asked for a drink. She was stunned. Jews didn't talk to Samaritans, especially women like her.

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But Jesus wasn't there to condemn her. He was there to see her. Jesus knew her story. He knew why she came alone. He knew why the others avoided her and he knew why shame weighed her down. And instead of pushing her away, he drew closer and he offered her living water, Something that could satisfy her soul. And when she still couldn't trust him, Jesus did the unthinkable. He told her her own story. He told her about the husband who broke her and then the godly man that she left and the shame that she carried because of all of this. And in that moment she knew that this was no ordinary man and she dropped her water jar and she ran back to the village.

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And she ran back to the village. And she told everyone come see a man who told me everything I've ever done.

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Could this be the Christ?

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The woman who avoided people was now running to people Because for the first time she knew she was seen, known and loved. She expected rejection, but instead she was seen. She expected rejection, but instead she was seen. She expected judgment, but instead she was known she expected to be cast aside, but instead she was loved anyway, and that changed everything for her.

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It wasn't a miracle it wasn't fire from heaven.

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It wasn't a sudden supernatural moment, it was just his presence.

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Because, more than a miracle, she needed someone who saw her. She needed someone who knew her and who loved her anyway. And that is exactly what leadership is. People don't need perfect leaders. People don't need us to have all of the answers. People don't need us to be the miracle workers in their lives. What they really need is for us to see them.

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To know them. And to love them anyway.

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To know them.

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And to love them anyway. But that kind of leadership seeing people, knowing them and loving them anyway it may sound simple, but it doesn't just happen. Leadership isn't about a title or a position. Leadership is about influence, and influence is built through relationship.

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Matthew 9.36 says. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd.

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Matthew 9.36.

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Jesus didn't just see problems to be solved. He saw people who needed to be known and loved. I want you to think about the people who have influenced your life the most. Was it the loudest person? Was it the person with the most energy? Was it the most powerful person? Did they have the biggest title? Was it the most powerful person? I don't think so. It was the person who showed up for you. It was the person who saw you, who listened to you and who walked with you when you needed them the most. That's leadership, and it's what people around us need from us. They don't just need a preacher with a microphone. They don't just need a boss with a title. They don't just need a miracle worker.

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Ils n'ont pas besoin d'une personne qui fait des miracles.

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They need a leader who builds real relationships.

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Ils ont besoin d'un leader qui construit de vraies relations.

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Because influence only happens up close.

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Parce que l'influence n'arrive que très proche.

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And so here's a question for you. Voici donc une question pour vous, because influence is only very close, and so here's a question for you.

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Who in your life needs your presence more than your position? Who in your life needs your presence more than your position? And so that's where leadership begins, and that's where leadership begins. Let's talk about now the neuroscience of character growth, If leadership is influence si le leadership, c'est de l'influence and influence is built through relationship et si l'influence est construite par les relations then why are relationships so doggone hard? Pourquoi est-ce que c'est si dur d'avoir une relation?

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Now, let's be honest Soyons honnêtes.

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People are messy and people come with baggage, people have broken parts and ugly blind spots and people get angry and they shut down sometimes. And sometimes they even pull away from us and guess what.

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Sometimes we do the very same things, and that's why real relationship requires more than just knowing what to do. It requires becoming the kind of leader who can handle those sorts of tensions. We have to be able to handle the real life struggles with people. We have to be able to handle the imperfections of people Without giving up on them, and that's why leadership isn't just about influence. It's also about growth, not just in them, but in us as well.

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Because here's the truth.

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You can't lead people well if you're not growing yourself.

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That's the truth, and the way that we grow.

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The way that we become the kind of leader who doesn't react or push people away, the way we become people who doesn't give up on others, is through something that's far deeper than knowledge or skill. It's something far more than just reading a book or taking a course. This is something that happens deep in our character, because how you lead is a deep reflection of who you are becoming. And one of the biggest factors that I see that comes from our character is how we balance truth and grace.

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Now, this is so important because how you lead, whether it's truth or grace, shapes the kind of relationships you build.

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C'est tellement important dans votre manière de mener, parce que ce que vous balancez la grâce et la vérité, ça fait de vous la personne que vous êtes en train de consommer.

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And it shapes the kind of culture that you're going to create around you.

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Et cela est en train de former la culture que vous mettez autour de vous. You know, some leaders are like a hammer. They are all rules and correction and pressure.

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And others are like rose petals they avoid hard conversations and they keep the peace at all costs. But the Bible says that real leadership combines both of these things. We need grace and truth. We need strength and truth. We need strength and compassion. Because the hammer alone or the truth alone is going to crush people, but the rose petals alone, the grace alone, with no truth, is going to make people too fragile and immature, but if we can combine the two together when they create something strong and compassionate where they create something strong and compassionate where it's steady and it's kind.

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You see, jesus knew exactly how to lead people in a way that brought change, but without breaking them. He spoke truth to the woman at the well, he told her things about herself that no one else knew. He brought the truth to the surface, but he did it in an environment of grace. You see, jesus didn't shame her, jesus didn't reject her. He saw her and he knew her and he loved her anyway.

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And neuroscience has only recently discovered what the Bible has shown us all along that real growth happens in the context of relationships when we experience both grace and truth. You see, we don't change in isolation. We don't change by pressure or guilt or shame. We change when we feel safe enough to be honest and when we feel challenged enough to grow. This is what will create real and lasting transformation Deep within us and deep within others, and it can only be done in the context of a relationship. And it's why Jesus didn't just give people new information. Jesus also gave them new experiences. Think about Zacchaeus was a thief, but Jesus treated him like a host. Peter denied Jesus three times, but Jesus restored him with three words feed my sheep with three words feed my sheep.

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The woman at the well expected judgment but Jesus gave her her dignity.

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And that is what leadership really is, and I really hope you're hearing me today it's not just about telling people the truth, it's about walking with them through the truth and, at the end of the day, leadership without love isn't leadership at all.

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I want you to hear what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13, 1-3, and I'll read one scripture at a time. Verse 1, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned and have not love it, profit me nothing and though I bestow, it profits me nothing.

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This is exactly what John needed that day sitting in my office.

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Not a miracle, not more correction, but someone to love him anyway, and it's exactly what I needed in my life to see my life grow as well. Think about what Paul is saying here in this scripture.

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You can speak with power. Paul is saying here in this scripture you can speak with power. You can have deep spiritual gifts. You can sacrifice everything for other people, but if love isn't at the center, it doesn't mean anything. You see, love isn't just a leadership quality. Love is the very foundation of leadership itself. And without love leadership becomes control, or it becomes performance, or it becomes self-serving of ourselves.

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But with love everything changes, because love never fails. I want you to think about Jesus with the woman at the well. He saw her, he knew her and he loved her anyway.

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Il l'a aimée, quoi qu'il en soit.

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And he could have performed some physical miracle to prove who he was at any point.

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Il aurait pu faire un miracle pour prouver qu'il était à un certain moment donné.

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He could have corrected her on every past mistake that she had ever made.

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Il aurait pu la corriger sur toutes les erreurs qu'elle a commises dans le passé.

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He could have corrected her on every past mistake that she had ever made.

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He could have just told her what she needed to do and washed his hands of it. But instead he drew closer to her in the midst of her negative realities, and that's what changed her life.

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It wasn't because of a miracle, it wasn't because of a confrontation, but it was because of a conversation With love at the center of her mess. Let's be real here today. Some people are really hard to love. Some people are going to disappoint you, some people are going to let you down, and the question isn't do they deserve my love? The real question is will I love them anyway?

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The real question is will I love them anyway?

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And so I ask you who in your life needs more of your presence than your pressure? Who in your life needs you to see them, to know them and to love them anyway? Because that's real leadership, not power, not position, not performance, but love. And love never fails. And so, as I wrap up here, we've talked about what real leadership looks like.

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But now it's not just about knowing it, it's about choosing to live it, and you can lead like the world leads, with power, performance and control.

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Or you can lead like Jesus, who is a leader who sees people, who knows them and loves them anyway, because real leadership is about presence. Because, real leadership is about presence. Real leadership is about relationship.

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Real leadership is about love. That's the type of leadership that changes lives, and I want you to think of one person in your life who needs that type of leadership and relationship from you. And that's your challenge, that's your next step. And you know there's power in speaking things out right, and I know you're muted right now, but if you wouldn't mind with whoever's around you, why don't you speak these words out right now? You ready With confidence? I want you to say I will lead with love.

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Say it one more time I will lead with love. Because, that's the kind of leader that Jesus was.

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And that's the kind of leader that this world, especially the church, needs today. And that's the kind of leader that you were called to be. Amen.

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For many years, and I'm done, but for many years. I just want to mention this.

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I led with a hammer. I thought that leadership was about being right.

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I thought it was about enforcing standards and about fixing people and I have to be honest, that approach did work, but only for a little while. It didn't produce lasting influence and change and it didn't build strong relationships and at times it left people more wounded than empowered.

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And maybe some of you can relate to that today. Or maybe you've seen leadership done with too much hammer and not enough grace, or maybe you've seen it done with too much grace and not enough truth. And that's exactly why I wrote the Christian Leader Blueprint and its four workbooks. This is not just a book, it's a system.

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It's a blueprint to help you move from flawed mentality of leadership to the kind of leadership that transforms lives, and it walks you through four critical areas. One is we want to establish a healthier rhythm of life. That's first and foremost. Then we want to see and understand ourselves more clearly. Third, we want to leverage our strengths around us, our giftings and our strengths. And the fourth part is we want to build stronger, more productive relationships, and this is the process that helped me shift from my leadership, from pressure, to presence. And I also want to mention to you that I have an online community coaching program called Christian Leader Community Coaching.

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I also want to mention that I teach online to help people follow this principle.

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And I will give you 15% off your membership. But here's the exciting part I will donate 25% of your membership, for the life of your membership, to Brother Robinette and his evangelistic efforts around the world.

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So you are getting a discount, but you are also supporting Brother Robinette and his efforts as well, and as long as you are a member, you will get the discount and he will get the support.

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Pray about it.

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Think about it.

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Pray about it, think about it and let's love people the way that we need to truly love people and lead people. God bless you all. Thank you again, brother Robinette, for allowing me to be on today. I'm so grateful.

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Praise God, I'm so grateful. Praise God. I'm just so overwhelmed by this word today and I just want to share with you some confirmation regarding what Brother Franklin just taught, which is just amazing, amazing, revelatory teaching. When we pulled up to the Ethiopia crusade last week, on the very first day, and we pulled up to that crowd day and we pulled up to that crowd.

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Before we stepped off the bus, a word of prophecy and a word of knowledge came forth out of a couple of team members.

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And the synopsis of that word was this these people do not need your miracles, they need your love and compassion. And as we're sitting there preparing to step off the bus, just this incredible tsunami of a baptism of love overtook the team overtook the team.

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It was an unexpected baptism, an uncommon baptism for a crusade environment.

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It didn't fit the mold of what people are normally focused on when you're walking off a bus into a crusade environment. The word was simple. God said I can do much more through love and compassion than I can through your gifting. And we all started weeping Brother Franklin on the bus and our hearts were just overwhelmed with this baptism of a kingdom-critical gifting for this hour and as we ministered there those three days. I can tell you how many times that we just began to put our arms around people.

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Dirty Messy.

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But when we made them feel the love of God, it just opened up such a victory in the nation of Ethiopia. And that's what we need in this hour A great baptism of compassion and love. I can't even begin to explain to you how much Holy Ghost I feel in this hotel room in Geneva right now, but I do feel that God wants to baptize every single leader, every believer that's listening right now, with a tsunami of compassion and love for everybody that's in your circle I'm not talking about at your table.

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Those are the people that are easy to love.

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I'm talking about the people that are in your area, that are within your reach, but you have neglected, rejected, resisted. But they are right there that they just need love the dirty, the smelly, the easy to reject, the easy to dismiss, Even those who have hurt you. The greatest God wants to baptize you with a love today.

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God wants to baptize you with a love today.

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So, wherever you are, maybe we could just go ahead in just a moment, not yet. I know how quick you are to turn yourselves off mute and start shouting.

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So just hold on a minute. But in a moment I'm going to ask you to take yourself off mute and we're going to pray the prayer of faith over every listener and we're going to release a tsunami of love over God's global church.

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And I know some of you are driving right now. Some of you are in hotel rooms right now.

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Some of you are at work listening. God is going to change our hearts so he can change the world. I want you just to take yourselves off mute.

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Why don't you begin?

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to just maybe put your hand on your own heart and pray that God will change your heart so he can change the world by the authority of the word of God. Change your heart so he can change yours. He says change my heart so you can change the world To take another heart. That is so hard by the power of the name of Jesus.

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Rather than pressure. By the power of the hand of Jesus Passion.

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Love people, see people without judgment of the hand of those, that is in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1:

In the name of Jesus In the name of Jesus.

Speaker 3:

In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1:

In the name of Jesus.

Speaker 2:

In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1:

In the name of Jesus.

Speaker 2:

Take the reasons to resist and baptize us With the love of the Lord that changes people's lives forever oh God. Oh God, and I will. Your love will be received alive and raised from the dead, and then Jesus, I will come back to you and I will bring you back Hallelujah.

Speaker 1:

Hallelujah.

Speaker 2:

In the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Christ, I will come back to you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 3:

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 1:

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to change lives and live for the better to create hope, and hope for God.

Speaker 2:

In the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1:

Praise the defender.

Speaker 3:

God.

Speaker 1:

Forever grateful to your help, jesus. You be so very careful, god, to give us all the praise, all the honor and all the glory God.

Speaker 2:

We thank you for your love.

Speaker 1:

We pray that we will walk away from your chains and we will walk away from our chains.

Speaker 3:

We will walk away from your name, we will be always aware of how we can live better and be better. Make the right choices, God, that we will be at the center of everything.

Speaker 2:

In the name of Jesus, god help me reach the world the way that you do.

Speaker 3:

In the name of Jesus, God, help me reach the world the way that you do.

Speaker 2:

In the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1:

God help me reach the world the way that you do In the name of Jesus God help me reach the world the way that you do.

Speaker 2:

In the name of Jesus, God, help me reach the world the way that you do In the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1:

Oh, what a powerful, powerful session we've had here today, and I feel what all of you are feeling just a great burden just to keep praying. And I want to encourage you when we get off this apostolic mentoring session don't rush this moment. The Lord is doing something in our hearts and we don't want to miss it doing something in our hearts and we don't want to miss it.

Speaker 1:

I want to be everything that I need to be, to reach as many as I can reach Whatever God needs to change in me so I can change the world.

Speaker 3:

So let it happen in me so I can change the world. So let it happen.

Speaker 1:

If I've got to get rid of some feelings or some emotions about things, if I got to be, if I got to do a self-assessment, brother Franklin, to figure out what's dusty and what's dirty and where the shadows are and what, whatever. If I've got to move something in order to be what God wants me to be, I want to do it. I'm so overwhelmed by the confirmation of this word today, compared and can, just in contrast to our to the word we received seven days ago in ethiopia. Nobody but our team could have known what was spoken on that bus. God is doing something in this hour that is just so important. It can't be missed. I've been talking about you know how are we going to reach billions? For years, five years talking about equipping millions to reach billions. But this is what it's about. It's not about a method or a plan. It's about. It's not about a method or a or a plan. It's about a transformation in us so we can be what god wants us to be it's about changing the man so we can change the world.

Speaker 1:

We're so quick to want everybody else to change and everything to be fixed.

Speaker 3:

And if we just had the right plan. But it's really about if we just had the right man, If I could get over myself and I could be what God wanted me to be.

Speaker 1:

I better quit talking.

Speaker 3:

I know some of you want to get to praying.

Speaker 1:

I love you all so much.

Speaker 3:

This is the highlight of my week to be with all of you. I can't believe we've been doing this together for five years. Every single week. I just feel so humbled to be a part of this apostolic mentoring family and to be a part of this apostolic mentoring family and to be a part of this global mission, equipping millions to reach billions.

Speaker 1:

But it can't happen without love, and I better learn to love. Oh man, I better get off this call. I won't stop talking.

Speaker 3:

Je vais arrêter l'appel.

Speaker 1:

I love you, Brother Franklin. You are a mighty man of God and a gift to God's global church.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, brother Robinette, and I love you as well and appreciate all that you do for the kingdom of God. Only God knows how much you do.

Speaker 1:

I want to put those links back here in the chat before I say goodbye here in the chat before I say goodbye.

Speaker 3:

I'll put that special code in here as well.

Speaker 1:

I think I did that right. Did I do that right, Brother Franklin? 25. No, 25. Let me do that right. I'm sorry friends, my heart is just jacked up tonight.

Speaker 2:

I don't want to have Brother Franklin on again because he just messes people's minds up. It's not helpful. This stuff messes my mind up as well, messes me up, we're not hard.

Speaker 1:

We're either really good for each other or really bad for each other, and it's still not clear. You know, these are the moments that sister karenna just quits translating. She just feels like it's a personal conversation and she doesn't want to get part of it.

Speaker 2:

And I want to say don't miss the episode that comes out in two weeks with Brother Robinette. It is phenomenal.

Speaker 1:

Hey, I'm going to tell you something right now. Every time that Brother Franklin and I get together, we cry. So I don't know, it's not healthy.

Speaker 2:

I think it is healthy. I think it's a wonderful thing.

Speaker 1:

It is. I feel there's a special knitting of our hearts for some great kingdom purpose. Well, anyhow, we got apostolic mentoring next Tuesday, 1 pm, eastern Time as always. Oh God Eastern.

Speaker 3:

Time as always, oh God.

Speaker 1:

Oh, thank you, God, get off this call, do whatever you want to do. Love you, thank you.

Speaker 3:

Love you. See you all next week See you Saturday, oh Saturday, love you.

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