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Hey, everyone, and welcome to this week's Jabyn Chavez Leadership Podcast. I am so fired up to share with you, and I'm just so excited that you found us. Somehow. I don't know how you found us, but I'm grateful that you are on this leadership journey with us. I'm hoping to just help you. I'm hoping to give you some handles and some tools that maybe could take your leadership to the next level. I know that as you get better, your organization is going to get better. As you get bigger, your organization is going to get bigger. As you get healthier, your organization is going to get healthier. So I'm praying that this is a blessing to you. I'm praying it is a blessing to your team and I'm praying that God would just bless your ministry and bless everything that you're putting your hand to. As I'm filming this, we are coming to the very end of 2025, about to go into 2026, and I'm so fired up about what God is doing in really the world in the church. It has been amazing this year as I've been able to travel, as I've been able to preach all over America and even get out of the country a bit. It is. It has been amazing to see what God is doing. I can honestly say I really do believe God is moving at our church, City Light Church here in Vegas. But it's wild to just see God moving all over the country and all over the nations just in a really special season. Friends in Europe, churches growing. Friends in Australia, New Zealand, churches growing. Friends in Asia, churches are growing. South Africa. It is an awesome time that we are in. And I'm praying for you, Pastor, that God would be doing something special in your ministry as well. Well, today I want to talk about finding the I in your leadership. Finding the I in your leadership. Michael Jordan famously said, there is no I in team, but there is an I in win. And I love that phrase. And there's also an I in leadership. And it is very important that the leader knows who they are. It is very important that the leader understands their voice. It's very important that the leader understands their personality, that there is an I in leadership. You'll actually hear a lot of people talk about, you know, we don't want personality driven churches or personality driven leadership styles or personality driven organizations. I understand what's being said and I don't fully disagree with it, but I don't know how to do that. And I don't think it's realistic. I think that there is a part of the organization, there is a part of the leader, there is a part of the culture, there is a part of the church that is going to be driven by who that leader is. I mean, we see that all the way back, right in Genesis chapter one, that we are reproducing after our own kind. Right? That's how things reproduce. We reproduce after our own kind. So the lemon tree doesn't produce an apple and the apple tree doesn't produce a cat, and a cat doesn't reproduce a rhinoceros. And on and on and on. Right? We reproduce after our own. Well, in the same way, I think you do have to discover who you are and you have to be true to who you are, and you have to let God do a work in who you are, because we're going to reproduce that. So I want to talk about a few things about finding the I in your leadership. And the first is this. What are your values? Your values. Now, I understand there's a lot of values, but let me. Let me ask it like this. What would be your top three core values? Your core values. What are your top three core values? Leader, what do you really care about? If you don't know, you need to think about it. If you do know, you need to write those down and make sure that the ministry is being true to it. I would say this. I really care about presence, like in our ministry. I really care about presence. I care about the touch of God, the anointing of God, the. The feeling of the presence of God and the joy of the Lord, all that that entails. Presence. I really care about men. I really care that the men of our church are being fed, looked after, ministered to, and that the men feel like they can connect in this house. I really care about the next generation. We've literally called our church City Light Church. Here's our vision. A house for the next generation. We are building house for the next generation. So I really care about those things. That's what I really care about. Do I really care about small groups? No, but if it serves presence and if it serves men, and if it serves the next generation, I love it. Do I really care about, you know, what night we do youth ministry on? No, but if it. But if it serves these things, I really care about, you know, on and on and on. I really care about presence, touch of God, anointing of God. I really care about the men of our church. I really care about the next generation. And I'm building church around that now what do you care about? What do you care about? What are your values? What do you really value? Because it's going to come out. So you might as well like, you're going to lead from what you care about. You're going to lead from your angst, you're going to lead from your burden, you're going to lead from your passion. So define it and then start to create things that serve that. What are your values? Number two, what is your voice? Do you know your voice yet? Now, it's been said, be a voice, not an echo. But I would say that a big part of finding your voice is echoing another's voice. It's when Mary comes in to the house and sees Elizabeth. And the Bible says the the baby leaped. When John heard Mary, he leaped. What makes your baby leap? Or who makes your baby leap? What preachers do you love? Who do you find inspiration from as you're finding your voice? A big part of finding your voice is finding voices that speak to you. Not everybody speaks to you, not everybody feeds you, not everybody can impart to you. So a big part of finding your voice is first finding your tribe, finding your spiritual family, finding those people that stir your heart, and then it is now beginning to develop your voice. You have a voice and you must find it. Because once you find it, you find your tribe, you find the people called to you once you begin. See, there were some who follow Apollos, and there were some who followed Paul. That's okay. Some water, some sow, but God gives the increase. That's okay. You're trying to find your voice so that those some can follow you, follow you as you follow Christ. So you've got to find your voice. If you're Paul, don't try to be Apollos. If you're Apollos, don't try to be Paul. If you're John, don't try to be Peter. If you're Peter, don't try to be James. Like, just think about that. Even in the writing style, when you read the epistles in the New Testament, they all had such a different flow. They all had their own style. Find your voice. Few ways to do that. I already talked about finding those voices of inspiration, but just ask the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, help me to find my voice. Figure out when you, when you really connect with the church and you go, oh, that message really connected with them. Did it? Or was it, Was it also something maybe in how you communicated it? I figured that out. So find your voice. Find thirdly the eye of your style. The eye of leadership. That's what we're talking about. Your style. Your style. Every leader has a style. Every leader has a pace. Every leader has a way that makes sense to you, that feels good to you. Find that from. From when the staff should come into the office to when you should come into the office. What's your. What's your pace? What's your style? What makes sense? What are. What are standards that you want to call your team to, or your volunteers to, or your church to, or that, or yourself to. It's part of your style. It's part of your pace. It's part of. It's that intuitive part of your leadership. Lead from that. Lead from. What's intuitive? You won't always be right. And if you're really wrong, fix it. But I would say there is a side of this that is very. It's just intuitive. Yeah, that makes sense. Let's add that service. Let's not do that yet. In the book of Acts, the apostles say, it felt good to us and to the Holy Spirit. Other translations said, it seemed good to us and to the Holy Spirit. It's not thus saith the Lord. It's just. I feel. It feels good. That doesn't feel good. That seems right. That doesn't seem right. Go with that. Go with that, man. The wind of heaven seems to be on that. Oh, man. The touch of God just isn't there. Go. That's your style. And it's not just all the God side of it. There's just a side of it that just seems good to me. To us. So you have your style. Here's another eye of leadership. Your personality. Don't try to change your personality. Honestly, I need to be more like him. I need to be more like him. Oh, I need to be more like him. Oh, I need to be more. Before you know it, you don't even know who you are. Your personality. What are you? Quiet. Be quiet. Are you loud? Be loud. Are you an introvert? Be an introvert. Cheers. Cheers to all the introverts. Are you an extrovert? Be an extrovert. Have people over. Are you really passionate, man? Go for it. Are you really calm? Be calm. You look at other people and think, I need to be more like them. But what makes them great is that they are themselves. That's what you're being attracted to. That's what you're connecting to. You're connecting to their sincerity. You're connecting to their vulnerability. You're connecting to their honesty. You really do have to be you in how you dress and how you think and how you act. And you just have to be true to that. And I'm not saying that you can't change that a little bit. I'm not saying that you can't get sharper and you can't get tighter and you can't get, you know, like. But when you're really being yourself, you. You will attract again, you'll attract the right people, you'll attract people you love. Now again, I think you can be classy, you can be sharp, you can be a statesman, but don't lose that thing that. Don't lose that magic that makes you. I'm funny. I don't try to be funny. I'm just funny. When I preach, I'm funny. Let's go with it. Now, it could get too loose and it could get too crass and it could get. I could kind of lose some of the. Some of it. So I'm very careful about it. But I'm funny. And if you're not funny, don't try to be funny. I remember a guy asking me that one time at a roundtable. He goes, he goes, how do you be funny? I said, yeah, you don't. You don't. It's. That's not how it works, bro. Because you, you are or you aren't. So just embrace it. Embrace who you are, your personality, the personality of your church. Do you want to wear a suit and tie on Sunday? I'd say do it. Do you want to wear a golf vest? I'd say do it. I'd go with that. Now, personality or not, I wouldn't recommend open toe shoes. You know, I think cover your feet, praise God. But like, I'm just saying, be, be locked in with that. People will be attracted. You've got to find the eye of leadership or you will spend your entire career trying to be something that you're not. And even if you succeed publicly, you won't like who you've become and you won't like your life privately. And I can tell you I'm at a season of my life. I love the ministry and I love my ministry and I love my life. Why? Because they're congruent, they're honest. That's where you're trying to go. That's what you're trying to do. In Jesus name, amen and Amen. I love you so much. Hey. Every week we're bringing content to you. We live stream our services every Sunday at 10am we drop a brand new sermon every Sunday night. We drop a brand new leadership podcast every Wednesday and then every Friday we're releasing music from our worship services. So lots of content. Make sure you are following, liking, subscribing, all the things, notification bells, all of it for City Light Vegas and I pray that we are a blessing to you. I love you. I'm praying for you. We'll see you next Wednesday.