The Importance of Virtues

The Forgotten Virtues message series that Pastor Craig recently concluded was one of the best series of the year thus far. I think we were all greatly impacted in learning about the importance of why the virtues of honor, purity, loyalty, integrity and gratitude should be an integral part of our daily lives. Unfortunately, these virtues seem to be less evident in today’s world and it is important that we as a church stand together and bring these Biblical virtues back to the forefront of society.

As LifeGroup leaders, it is even more important that strive to ensure that we exhibiting these five virtues in our lives. We are leaders at our campus and, more importantly, we have the distinct honor and responsibility of shepherding our own little flock that is our LifeGroup. Therefore, it is important we are examples of these virtues to our LifeGroup so we can show them firsthand what these virtues should look like in their own lives.

In order to be the best leaders we can for our LifeGroups, we should take a little time and do a quick assessment as to what these virtues currently look like in our lives. We may exhibit some virtues better than others; therefore, it is important that we indentify those areas where we may be lacking so that we can work on improving them. Here are some questions to ask yourself and thoughts to consider about each of the five virtues:

Honor: How has your LifeGroup seen you show honor to God, your spouse, your family, your pastors, and to those in authority over you? Think about finding ways to honor and build up those who come to your LifeGroup. LifeGroups are a place to build up and not to tear down.

Purity: What are some of the impurities that remain in your life? How could these impurities compromise you as a leader and impact your effectiveness in ministering to your LifeGroup? What safeguards do you have in place to protect you from impurity? Purity is an important virtue as a LifeGroup leader because your group will be looking to you as an example and for guidance in how to maintain purity in their own lives.

Loyalty: How has your LifeGroup seen you demonstrate loyalty in all of your relationships? How do you demonstrate loyalty to your LifeGroup? Loyalty is an important virtue of a LifeGroup because it can be the glue that holds a group together.

Integrity: What are some of the biggest challenges to your integrity that you currently face? Where are you lacking integrity? Like purity, it is vital that we as LifeGroup leaders maintain integrity in all areas of our lives because our group will be looking to us as an example and for guidance.

Gratitude: Do you exhibit a sense of entitlement? Do you think your LifeGroup sees you as a humble leader? In what ways are you teaching your LifeGroup to develop an attitude of gratitude towards others and towards God? Think of ways you can show gratitude to those in your group because those examples could be instrumental in teaching your LifeGroup how to have an attitude of gratitude.