As I am reading the book, " Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership", it start off with giving me a right perspectives in looking at successful Christian leaders.
The book point out the danger Christian Leaders are facing. The success of a church is measured by how many people attending the service, the size of the facility, the number of staff members, the number of user-friendly programs and the size of the budget they have. For the leaders who need to have success to validate themselves are driven to acquire these things and are willing to conform and compromise the Biblical standard.
In order to reduce the potential for leadership failures, we have to shift our paradigm of measuring success in terms of having as opposed to being. In Matt 18:3-4, Jesus said"I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." On other occasion Jesus told his disciples, " The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Through Jesus teaching, He emphasized that kingdom success is being, not having or doing.
Dear heavenly father,
I praise You for You are the greatest leader of all
I praise You for your unconditional love and unwavering support even when I am in the darkness phase, making terrible mistakes in marriage through my younger years.
I praise You for your listening ear and merciful heart in attending my inconsistent prayer.
I pray that You will continue to help me be more Christlike and understand myself and overcome areas in my personalities that might threaten my effectiveness as leader.
Amen.
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