Leadership Challenge #7

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Proverbs 21:7  (The Message) “The wicked get buried alive by their loot because they refuse to use it to help others.”

7.  The Responsibility of a Leader.

The greatest responsibility we have as leaders is to use what we’ve been given to help others.  It’s so easy to get caught up in thinking that leadership is somehow about us.  Our career, our influence, our gain, our advancement.  But the Bible makes it so clear that the opposite is actually true.  Leadership is given to us so we can help others.

I am so grateful for some amazing leaders who are being raised up in the Body of Christ today who are using their leadership influence to help others.  Men like Rick Warren, who gives away 90% of his income.  Craig Groeschel who is leveraging his influence by giving away every resource they’ve created within their church.  By doing this, I believe that Craig is single-handedly doing more to unite the Body of Christ then anything else we’ve seen in the last century!

Joel and Victoria Osteen who have been given a HUGE platform to impact lives and yet receive no salary from their church to do it!

It’s a new day in the Body of Christ and I’m excited about it!  God is giving trustworthy leaders unprecedented opportunities for influence because they have refused to let leadership be about them.

Just another bloggish leadership thought,

Matt