2.3 Leadership in Israel: Saul

• Reasons the Israelites demanded a king (1 Samuel 8:1-9)
• Reasons against kingship in Israel (1 Samuel 8:10-20)
• Saul's failure: the impatient sacrifice (1 Samuel 13:8-14)
• Saul's failure: incomplete obedience over Amalek (1 Samuel 15:7-25)
• Lessons from the failures of King Saul
• God-fearing leadership at school and in church

• discuss reasons for kingship in Israel
• examine reasons against kingship in Israel
• evaluate King Saul's failures and the consequences
• deduce lessons learnt from the failures of King Saul
• desire to be a God-fearing leader at school and in church

“Why did King Saul fail in his leadership?”

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1. Why Israel demanded a king
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   1 Samuel 8:1-9: Samuel's corrupt sons, the wish to be like the nations, and the Lord's word that they have rejected him as king.
2. Reasons against kingship: 1 Samuel 8:10-20
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   Samuel's warning: sons, daughters, fields, tithes, slavery, unanswered cries; the people still refuse.
3. Saul's failure at Gilgal: 1 Samuel 13:8-14
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   Saul will not wait the seven days; he offers the burnt offering; the kingdom will not endure.
4. Saul and Amalek: 1 Samuel 15:7-25
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   Partial obedience, Agag and the best animals spared, to obey is better than sacrifice, the kingdom rejected.
5. Lessons from King Saul's failures
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   Five lessons: wait, full obedience, fear God not the crowd, no religious cover, leadership is stewardship.
6. God-fearing leadership at school and in church
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   Practising Saul's lessons as a prefect, in groups, in CU and at home, with a leadership journal.