Leadership is very important in any multi-person group so that the group can have unity and accomplish it’s goals, and be successful as a group. Leadership is especially important in the life of a church because unity and love are the main causes of God’s blessing to a church. At JBC we have the main leader with several other leaders working closely with him. But we also have many other leaders because we have so many ministries and every ministry is led by a leader.

So we are always looking for qualified leaders because the more we have the more we can do, the more lives we can touch and repair. What makes a qualified leader? We look at three things, first thing is character, then chemistry, that is their people skills, their ability to get along with people, and last their competence in the skill of leadership. If those three get reversed there will be problems. Here are a few character qualities that the Bible mentions.

A good leader has the character trait of gentleness. In Matthew 11 Jesus describes Himself and mentions only two character traits, gentleness and humility. In 2nd Timothy 2:25 as Paul mentors Timothy on how to be a good pastor he tells him to deal with difficult people with gentleness and the result will be that they repent and change. Gentleness is being aware that people have feelings, that they desire to be treated with dignity and respect. A good leader thinks of people before the goal, he thinks of others before himself.

A good leader is humble. God says that if we are proud that He will humble us, but if we are humble He will exalt us. In conversations with people, there are those who tend to talk in such a way as to give themselves glory. They are opinionated and are quick to defend their idea or opinion, they tend to be unteachable and uncorrectable.

A good leader is not argumentative. He is secure enough in who he is that he doesn’t need to be right or have things go his way. A person who is often in a debate with someone about something are poor leaders.

A good leader is not over-talkative. People who talk to much will not influence other people positively.

A good leader has strong self-control. He exercises self-control over his emotions and his tongue.

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