Quotes About Leadership

Success is not about how well I've been able to build my own little kingdom but about the degree to which I've done all I've done in the service of a greater

Could it be, in your leadership community, that there are signs that the glory of achievement has begun to replace the glory of God as the most powerful motivator in the hearts of your leaders and of the way leadership plans, assesses, and does its work?

Church leadership is a people-building ministry; to function any other way is both unbiblical and dangerous.

It is humbling to admit, but I have had to face the fact that the greatest danger to my ministry is me!

If Christ is the head of his body—and he is—then everything else is just body. The most influential pastor or ministry leader is a member of the body of Christ and therefore needs what the other members of the body need.

A leadership community is spiritually safe and prepared for a long-term and productive life of ministry only when what is important to God is not just theologically important to them but also functionally important.

Si tomas el crédito como líder, en lugar de reconocer al que te envió y al único que produce el fruto de tus labores, alabarás menos, orarás menos y planearás más.

Sexist leaders who do not respect the God-given gifts of women and who may even relate to them inappropriately have forsaken their ambassadorial calling.

Tu orgullo por los logros no solo te hace un líder orgulloso, sino que también consume la vida de tu comunión personal con Dios y tu compañerismo con Su pueblo.

Your leadership community is in trouble if your leaders are more excited about a strategic planning meeting than a prayer meeting.

Every leader is a package of God-given gifts and God-assigned limits. It is dangerous to focus on the one without humbly remembering the other.

Many of us would be relieved if God had placed our sanctification in the hands of trained and paid professionals, but that simply is not the biblical model. God's plan is that through the faithful ministry of every part, the whole body will grow to full maturity in Christ. The leaders of his church have been gifted, positioned, and appointed to train and mobilize the people of God for this "every person, everyday" ministry lifestyle.

Ministry leadership is not a fortress against spiritual attack; it's the front line.

This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it's me.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

The church is a community of unfinished people living in a broken world and still in need of God's forgiving and transforming grace. The church isn't meant, for either leaders or those being led, to be comfortable; it's meant to be personally transformational.

If you take credit as a leader instead of assigning credit to the one who sent you and who alone produces fruit out of your labors, you will praise less, pray less, and plan more.

We should never become achievement satisfied, because there is always more gospel work to do. But we must always remind one another that achievement is a spiritual minefield. Achievement has the power to change us—to change who we think we are and what we think we are capable of doing. Sadly, achievement can turn humble servant leaders into proud, controlling, and unapproachable mini-kings. But there is powerful, right-here, right-now grace for this struggle.

Grace means we are not held to our worst moment or cursed by our worst decision. Grace means out of the ashes of sin, leaders can rise because the Savior has resurrection power.

si la principal fuerza que impulsa el liderazgo en las iglesias locales de todo el mundo fuera el evangelio de Jesucristo, muchas de las cosas tristes que hemos visto en las vidas de los líderes y sus iglesias no habrían sucedido.

The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.

Humility means that each leader's relationship to other leaders is characterized by an acknowledgment that he deserves none of the recognition, power, or influence that his position affords him.

Inspection means that we invite people to step over the normal boundaries of leadership relationships to look into our lives to help us see things that we would not see on our own. It means inviting fellow leaders to watch for our souls.

Humility means that each leader's relationship to other leaders is characterized by an acknowledgment that he deserves none of the recognition, power, or influence that his position affords him. It