{"id":1352,"date":"2015-01-27T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:33:13","slug":"the-1-quality-that-make-you-a-great-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"The ONE Quality That Will Make You A Great Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are four qualities we use to judge a diamond: cut, clarity, color, and carat. \u00a0But what qualities do we use to judge leaders in ministry?<\/p>\n

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Tanya Prive over at Forbes.com\u00a0describes the top 10 qualities that make up a great leader<\/a>. \u00a0I liked the article a lot. \u00a0There is a lot of\u00a0practical wisdom in it for leaders in ministry to apply as well, so I recommend you give it a read. \u00a0However, when I began to apply these qualities to Moses, the greatest leader ever, I found that Moses would not be considered a great leader by her standards because he lacked 9 of the 10\u00a0qualities she cites. \u00a0What made Moses a great leader was one quality that doesn’t look much like a quality of a leader at all. \u00a0But before I give it to you, first let me run down Prive’s top 10 list and apply them to Moses.<\/p>\n

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  1. Honesty – Moses covering up his murder of an Egyptian doesn’t quite check the honesty box.<\/li>\n
  2. Ability to Delegate – Moses had to be instructed\u00a0to delegate by his pagan father-in-law after burning out playing judge to over 2 million people.<\/li>\n
  3. Communication – Moses was a confessed stutterer and employed\u00a0his brother Aaron to do all the talking.<\/li>\n
  4. Sense of Humor – Moses didn’t laugh off problems when they arose. \u00a0Take for instance the golden calf incident. Many died that day for their failure to believe.<\/li>\n
  5. Confidence – Moses was far from confident. \u00a0In fact he was afraid that no\u00a0Jew\u00a0would believe his message was from God let alone Pharaoh.<\/li>\n
  6. Commitment – Here is the one quality Prive lists where Moses shined. \u00a0Even though he was heavily criticized by the children of Israel, Moses never left their side.<\/li>\n
  7. Positive Attitude – Moses didn’t believe in the ability of his followers unless it was the ability to fail to follow God.<\/li>\n
  8. Creativity – Moses didn’t have the ability to create\u00a0out-of-the-box solutions to many of the problems he faced\u00a0throughout his ministry. \u00a0God was the one instructing him to\u00a0lead the people through the Red Sea, to command\u00a0water from the rock, and to collect\u00a0manna in the morning.<\/li>\n
  9. Intuition – Moses didn’t have great intuition. \u00a0When\u00a0facing problems he often didn’t know what to do.<\/li>\n
  10. Ability to Inspire – Moses wasn’t an inspirational leader.\u00a0\u00a0Many grumbled against his leadership and were willing to go back to Egypt because they thought their life as slaves was better than following\u00a0Moses’ leadership.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So what was it that made Moses the greatest leader of all time? \u00a0Moses was humble. \u00a0He was keenly aware of his shortcomings. \u00a0He knew that the mission was too big for him. \u00a0He knew that the people wouldn’t be inclined to follow him. He knew that the journey out of slavery into a life of freedom would be arduous. \u00a0He knew that he didn’t have what it took to save\u00a0God’s people. \u00a0And the fact that Moses was sober about his lack of qualifications to lead God’s people made him the greatest leader ever. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because in his humility, he was dependent on God for everything.<\/p>\n

    Think about it. \u00a0What if you didn’t believe you had what it took to lead in your context of ministry, and what if you didn’t try to cover up that fact? \u00a0What would be the result of your leadership? \u00a0The result would be a greater dependence on the Spirit to work in you. \u00a0I think that is what God is after with his called leaders. \u00a0He doesn’t want us to lead his mission through our strengths. \u00a0Instead he wants us to be so overwhelmed by the task of leading his mission\u00a0that we, like Moses, begin confessing our weaknesses. \u00a0Once we do, God won’t reject us. \u00a0In fact, the very opposite is true. \u00a0He will receive us and use us to lead his\u00a0purposes because we will be clinging to God in\u00a0dependence on his strengths and resources not our own. \u00a0This is the quality\u00a0of humility as a leader: being overwhelmed by the task, but\u00a0depending on God to fulfill his leadership purposes through us.<\/p>\n

    Humility is what all truly great leaders have in common. \u00a0Abraham couldn’t produce a child on his own. \u00a0Isaac couldn’t bless the right child on his own. \u00a0Jacob couldn’t receive the blessing on his own. \u00a0Joshua couldn’t lead the people into battle on his own. \u00a0David couldn’t claim the kingdom on his own. \u00a0Elijah couldn’t make people believe on his own. \u00a0Paul couldn’t complete his mission on his own. \u00a0They all came face to face with their limitations. \u00a0The reason why we know these leaders today is that they humbled themselves by\u00a0trusting that\u00a0God was going to use his resources through them to bring about his purposes. \u00a0We then would be foolish to believe that the work God gives us can be achieved on our own. \u00a0God gives us the work to lead others for his purposes\u00a0so that we can turn around and humbly\u00a0depend on him to carry out the task.<\/p>\n

    So if you want to be a great leader, stop trying to be qualified in God’s eyes. \u00a0Instead, be humble. \u00a0Confess your disqualifications for leading in ministry, AND\u00a0depend on God and his strength as the\u00a0source of your leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are four qualities we use to judge a diamond: cut, clarity, color, and carat. \u00a0But what qualities do we use to judge leaders in ministry? Tanya Prive over at Forbes.com\u00a0describes the top 10 qualities that make up a great leader. \u00a0I liked the article a lot. \u00a0There is a lot of\u00a0practical wisdom in it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theawakenministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-1-Quality-that-will-make-you-a-Great-Leader.0011.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}