Me:  Prodigal, you look like you are in a concrete jungle.

Prodigal:  Yep, my friend things it is nice, but she can’t help it cause she was raised on concrete.

Me: Well if you were raised in concrete jungle or dirt path I hope this will encourage all the leaders out there today.

 

This is from the book Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders

 

Spiritual leaders are not elected, appointed, or created by synods or churchly assemblies.  God alone makes them.  One does not become a spiritual leader by merely filling an office, taking course work in the subject, or resolving in one’s own will to do this task.  A person must qualify to be a spiritual leader.

Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier sought to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God.  Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work through him.  When God’s searching eye finds a person qualified to lead, God anoints that person and with the Holy Spirit, calls him or her to a special ministry (Acts 9:17; 22:21)

 

Being a leader is not started by wanting all the attention in the lime light.

 

Psalm 86:11

 

Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth:  unite my heart to fear thy name.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org