If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church
If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.
Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.
The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.
It is to be kept in mind that the generations of men do not wait for the convenience of the church in respect to their evangelization. Men are born and die whether or not Christians are ready to give them the Gospel. And hence, if the church of any generation does not evangelize the heathen of that generation, those heathen will never be evangelized at all. It is always true in the work of evangelization that the present can never anticipate the future, and that the future can never replace the past. What is to be done in soul saving must be done by that generation.
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