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Leadership - What leaders owe their people

If you are still visiting this blog aft i haven't typed anything for the past few months, you must be a really loyal supported of this blog eh.. haha.. ok... here goes.

I have been bugged by many people about the issue of leadership recently and that in turn have bugged me. It has set me thinking of what makes a good leader. I'm not saying i'm really that good but i believe that i do have somethings i really feel God has placed in my heart about leadership that i wish to share here.

The church is calling out today for strong leaders who provide decisive direction, passion and inspiration for the people. Far too often, leaders are afraid to provide a direction for the fear that we will lose them if they do not agree with us or we have over challenged them. Worse still, leaders are afraid to provide a direction simply because they are not sure of the direction themselves.

Can i plead onto all leaders today, any leader, that you need to get this right once and for all. "Get your motives right, keep yourself accountable, consult your team and make the decision." The bible says "Go and make disciples" It did not emphasize go when, go where, go with who. It simply says, Go! and make disciples of all nations. At the end of the day, church leaders does not lead because we want to see results as an end to itself. We lead because it is a calling from God to lead his flock through the temporal victory or the occasional temporal defeat. People are not as afraid of chionging for a incorrect direction compared to having no direction at all.

Lead his flock!! Take up the leadership mantle and provide your people with the kind of leadership that will inspire them to do likewise to many other people.

I'll leave you with this. During any war, soldiers look to their immediate commander for leadership. When the sides are evenly matched, decisive leadership becomes the one more important factor that determines the life and death of hundreds of soldiers. If the leader is strong, the soldiers get to see another day. If the leader is weak, it is the end of the road for many of them. The leader does not only owe these people, who entrusted their lives to him, strong leadership, he owes it to the many wifes and children back home who are waiting for these brave young man to return home.

Many a times, as leaders, we cannot wait to go into battle. We cannot wait to come back victorious. But sadly, we only know how to start and how to end, how to charge the people and how to celebrate a victory. Our people entrust their time, their energy, their emotional, and mental being to follow our lead and we owe them our decisive leadership, our confidence, our passion and our inspirational drive in the midst of the battle, because there is a loving father waiting back home for all these beloved son and daughters of his to return home to the heavenly throne.

I'll continue tomorrow on How do leaders find their bearing.

Regards,

Jie Hui

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Thursday, June 26, 2008