Leadership Training International

The FEL Series

The Leader's Freedom
The Leader’s Freedom focuses on obtaining steps to freedom from hurts, bondage, and unhealthy living. It presents seven steps to freedom: facing our bondages, relinquishing control, exposing the roots, embracing responsibility, developing discipline, overcoming temptation, and moving on to maturity.

Author: Rev. Dale O'Shields
Dale O’Shields has been involved in pastoral ministry since 1978. In 1986, Dale pioneered Church of the Redeemer in Gaithersburg, MD, a rapidly growing suburb Northwest of Washington, D.C. He continues to serve as Senior Pastor for this growing congregation of more than 4,500. Dale holds a BA degree and an MA in Counseling. He and his wife Terry have two daughters, Christi and Jessica.

Main Objective •••Module Overview •••Main Diagram •••Session Descriptions•••Sample Pages•

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Main Objective
The object of this module is to help ministry leaders/emerging ministry leaders learn how to live a lifestyle that will bring deep and lasting spiritual freedom and fruitfulness.

Module Overview
This module is an inward growth module geared towards helping Christian leaders gain spiritual freedom and victory in their lives. Often leaders get “stuck” in some part of their spiritual development, struggling to get past patterns of defeat that have plagued them for long time. In this module we will walk through seven important biblical principles that can bring a new measure of Christ’s freedom to their lives – releasing leaders from past bondages, allowing them to break through to new levels of ministry potential.

To help with remembering and reviewing these truths, they are presented as an acrostic. The seven letters of the word “freedom” are used to identify each of the principles:

F = Facing Our Bondage
R = Relinquishing Control of Our Lives to Christ
E = Exposing the Roots of Our Bondage
E = Embracing Responsibility
D = Developing Spiritual Discipline
O = Overcoming Temptation
M = Moving On to Maturity

Main Diagram

Session Descriptions

Session	Description
Session 1: Facing our Bondage	The first step in being set free from bondage is to acknowledge that it exists: 00• how we can be externally free but internally bound. 00• five symptoms of bondage. 00• three sources of bondage. 00• four serious effects of bondage. 00• first steps to freedom from bondage.
Session 2: Relinquishing Control of Our Life	Find out who is in control of your life and choose to fully relinquish it to God: 00• who has control of your life: you, Satan, God. 00• the controlling power of spiritual bondages. 00• identifying seven resistances to Christ’s control. 00• choosing to let go…and let God.
Session 3: Exposing the Roots of our Bondage	Discover bad fruit in your life and let this expose the underlying unhealthy root systems: 00• eight common bad fruits of spiritual bondage. 00• nine common bad roots of spiritual bondage. 00• exposing bad roots.
Session 4: Embracing Responsibility	See the need of personal responsibility as a crucial step towards freedom from bondage: 00• the need for responsibility. 00• responsibility in relationships. 00• seven qualities of responsible people. 00• obstacles to embracing responsibility. 00• five Rs of responsiblity
Session 5: Developing Spiritual Discipline	One of the most important steps bringing freedom from bondage involves the developing of spiritual discipline: 00• the importance of discipline. 00• six consequences of poor discipline. 00• the cost of spiritual discipline. 00• ten ingredients of a disciplined spiritual life. 00• rewards of spiritual discipline.
Session 6: Overcoming Temptation	Temptation is not a sin, but giving into it leads to far reaching consequences leading to bondage: 00• six aspects of temptation. 00• David’s struggle with temptation. 00• ten consequences of yielding to temptation. 00• ten principles to overcome temptation.
Session 7: Moving on to Spiritual Maturity	Freedom from bondage is assured when we choose to leave immaturity behind and move on to spiritual maturity: 00• leaving immaturity behind. 00• five aspects of growing up spiritually. 00• eight traits (roots) of spiritual maturity. 00• ten marks (fruits) of spiritual maturity.

Sample Pages from The Leader's Freedom
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Freedom 1-4	Freedom 1-14	Freedom 3-5
Freedom 4-11	Freedom 5-9	Freedom 7-7

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