Dear Community, just beginning in 2019 and I thank God that despite all the inconveniences that the year 2018 left me, my heart is full of gratitude.
Today I was talking with people of influence and success who have a whole life in the service of God and the advice that was most heard in relation to leadership in the Church, was to be an authentic and committed person.
In every leadership meeting the question always arises: What is it for You to be a Leader?
For some a heavy burden, for others it is glamor. It becomes a goal, to be just for being. What it will bring in various problems, because it does not understand what is necessary to be a good leader. To understand, truly, I believe it is necessary first, to have been led. We know that being a leader is not a title or a state like in (Matthew 23:10), but serving.
Know that the leadership position requires a large amount of commitment, sacrifice and responsibility. The good leader is not selfish. On the contrary, he abdicates his wills to find the best for the next. The good leader is always subject to the GOOD LEADER!
Up to this point, you may have wondered: "It's okay, but I do not want or intend to be a leader."
We do not need to be leaders of large ministries or even departments of our Church, but know that we can be spiritual leaders for many lives! And also be family leaders. In the Bible there are leaders of various types.
There are political leaders such as kings David and Solomon, Moses and Joshua who took care of their people, laws and justice. There are war leaders like Gideon, Samson and Joab who organized the armies for war and plotted victories. In the same way, we can lead at home, at work or at the university. That is why it is of vital importance to know what is necessary to be good leaders, because we are responsible for those lives and we will be accountable one day.
Leadership is like a candle lit in the middle of several extinguished candles. The candle that is lit abdicates its will to be the only one to be lit, and makes the other candles are brighter and brighter than itself. This means that one of the roles of the good leader is to lift, lapidate and make his leaders reach even further.
Keep in your heart that to lead you must have commitment, humility, love for your neighbor and be a person who speaks truth.
This text can, in some way, change the way we see our leaders, also being support for their lives. Because it is known that the unfathomable blessings of God are also manifested in the lives of those who honor their leaders.
