Otium Sanctum

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The Outer Circle of Spiritual Leadership Cont’d
16. Perseverant
Jesus said in Matthew 24:13, “He who endures to the end will be saved.” Paul said in Galatians 6:9, “Let us not grow weary in well-doing.” We live in a day when immediate gratification is usually demanded. That means that very few people excel in the virtue of [...]

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The Outer Circle of Spiritual Leadership Cont’d
11. Tactful
Paul said in Colossians 4:5, 6, “Conduct yourself wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, to know how it is necessary to answer each one.” And the writer of Proverbs said, “A word fitly spoken is like [...]

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The Outer Circle of Spiritual Leadership Cont’d…
6. Energetic
Lazy people cannot be leaders. Spiritual leaders “redeem the time” (Eph. 5:16). They work while it is day, because they know that night comes when no man can work (John 9:4). They “do not grow weary in well doing” for they know that in due season they shall [...]

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The Outer Circle of Spiritual Leadership
Everyone in the church has one or more spiritual gifts. Everyone should be involved in ministry. Everyone should be seeking to lead others to the point where they bring glory to God by the way they think and feel and act. But there are some people to whom the Lord [...]

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The Inner Circle of Spiritual Leadership
1. That Others Will Glorify God
The ultimate goal of all spiritual leadership is that other people might come to glorify God, that is, might so feel and think and act as to magnify the true character of God. According to Matthew 5:14-16, one of the crucial means by which a [...]

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WHAT IS SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?Leadership is a big deal, and I think little time within Christian ministry is given to discovering and implementing true values of leadership. No-one is perfect but each person, called to a leadership position, be it in missions, the church or elsewhere should be spending time developing Godly, [...]