A true leader is not so much aware of the talents or gifts he has that others do not have as he is of the fact that he is as weak and as capable of sin as anyone.  It is when leaders forget their sinfulness that they fall into sin and lose their ability to lead.

James Montgomery Boice, Nehemiah: Learning to Lead (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1990), 24.