A
true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is
forced into a position of leadership by the inward presence of the Holy Spirit
and the press of the external situation. Such were Moses and David and the Old
Testament prophets. I think there was hardly a great leader from Paul to the
present day but that was drafted by the Holy Spirit for the task, and
commissioned by the Lord of the Church to fill a position he had little heart
for. I believe it might be accepted as a firmly reliable rule of thumb that the
man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will
have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether as
ready to follow as to lead, when the
Spirit makes it clear that a wiser and more gifted man than himself has
appeared. A.W Tozer
A
true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is
forced into a position of leadership by the inward presence of the Holy Spirit
and the press of the external situation. Such were Moses and David and the Old
Testament prophets. I think there was hardly a great leader from Paul to the
present day but that was drafted by the Holy Spirit for the task, and
commissioned by the Lord of the Church to fill a position he had little heart
for. I believe it might be accepted as a firmly reliable rule of thumb that the
man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will
have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether as
ready to follow as to lead, when the
Spirit makes it clear that a wiser and more gifted man than himself has
appeared. A.W Tozer
