Leadership is a spiritual act of worship and guidance.
George Barna, A Fish out of Water (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2002), p. 107.
Tag Archives: Leadership
Training To Lead
Spiritual leadership does not always develop best in the limelight. There must be time for a future leader’s secret transactions with God and for getting to know Him more intimately than do those he is being trained to lead. Because God is seeking quality in our lives, time is no object to Him.
J. Oswald Sanders, Enjoying Intimacy with God (Chicago: Moody Press, 1980), 122.
The True Measure of Success in Ministry
The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that He is using for His purpose.
Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 28.
The Godly Leader Must Be a Disciple First
If you want to make a leader, make a disciple first. If you want to be a leader, find a mature disciple to disciple you.
HT: @rickhowerton
The Excellence of Your Leadership
The excellence of your leadership depends more on the quality of your relationship with God than on the application of the gifts and resources He has given to you for success in leading people.
The Pastor’s Pastor
There is no one so interested in the pastor’s charge as the Chief Pastor is. He shares all the anxieties, hardships, watchings, and perils of the work.
Pastor, What Are You Reading?
Every third book you read should be from outside your own (provincial) century.
We Will Give Ourselves to Prayer and the Ministry of the Word
He preacheth not heartily to his people, that prayeth not earnestly for them.
A Leader Is a Reader
I have yet to meet a leader who is growing in personal passion for God and godliness, and effectiveness in pastoral ministry and preaching, who doesn’t have a voracious appetite for reading.
Those Who Shouldn’t Be Spiritual Leaders
No man who is self-serving, proud, lazy, or hypocritical should have followers.
Leroy Eims, Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, p. 40
Life Is Worship 