If you are a leader, do the right thing no matter what. Tell the truth, keep confidence, take responsibility for your failures, love people. Do what is right no matter how you feel about it. We should not just be first in preaching, in prophesying, in singing, we should be first in doing the right thing. Leaders should be the most effective, fruitful disciples in the church.
One of the biggest failures of leadership is a failure to do the right thing. If you are a leader in a church, if you don’t tithe to that church you are doing the wrong thing. If when challenged on that, you laugh and smirk and say you want to give to better ministries, you are doing the wrong thing. If you are then asked to step down for a few months to grow a little and learn how to handle what Jesus calls the least level of faithfulness, you then raise your fists at someone and threaten them, you are doing the wrong thing.
If you are a leader, you should be turning up on time, you should be supporting the people who made you a leader, you should not be easily offended, you should be listening to the Word and sermons not just preaching yourself, you should be investing and generous, faithful in little things, honest, kind. You should be a life long learner.
When someone asks you what was the last sermon you listened to, excluding the ones where you had to be in the room, you should say the Wednesday live steam, I watched Guildford or listened to Watford, I am reading a Kenneth Hagin book at the moment, Rodney Howard Browne was in my city so I went there on an evening there wasn’t a church meeting and just got fed.
Leading involves being first. That should be evident, but it isn’t always. You should be first in doing the right thing. First in supporting, first in giving, first in encouraging words, first in loving, first in looking for tbe good in a situation not the negative, first in lifting people up, first in defending your church and pastors, first in joy, first in the Word, first in the amount of praying in tongues you do…
Ask the Lord how you can be a leader in doing the right thing today.
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