THE MARKS OF A TRUE LEADER
Many times I was asked who is the leader I admire the most by different people in different places. But my answer will remain the same: JESUS. His life for me is the best example that caught my attention and changed my life, I am so much amazed of his ways leading his people. He demonstrated love and care to everyone and exercised his power and authority with humility. He has the best teachings ever told and a book that was never outdated nor expires. He set the best example of a teacher-leader who walked the talked. This kind of leadership is what makes people get transformed. Followers look at leaders, who walk the talk and sets good example. He demonstrated 9 qualities of a good leader in very simple words which his book (BIBLE) called, “The Fruit of the Spirit” found in Galatians 5:22-23. These are the qualities that a leader must bear as fruit as he starts leading and grow. A leader must have love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, patience, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control in their heart. The characteristics that made Jesus famous in his time. He always carry it with him whenever and wherever he goes and whoever he meets because he believes that every single soul needs it.
Putting aside all the miracles he performed and only looking at him with such characters, I believed that these really made his team transformed lives wherever they go and everyone who hears and sees them believes. They ministered with such love and compassion, spent time with the people, listening and meeting their needs. All they care about is PEOPLE that will be transformed through their little lives.
I want to borrow Mama Heidi Baker’s famous quote (a well-known missionary in Mozambique, Africa), she said that if you want to give birth to the miraculous, you have to “STAY LOW and GO SLOW, and STOP for the ONE infront of you. These words made me think of transformational leadership. It is not easy to transform lives. When I see lives get transformed under someone’s leadership I call that a miracle. Because the leader who inspired and the reason a life is transformed has miraculously learned the law of staying low (means humility regardless of status and age), going slow (means time regardless of busyness) and to stop for the one in front of you who needs you (means valuing your people regardless of your position).
What should be the marks of a true leader? Well, a leader must know the way, shows the way and goes the way. And I coudn’t think of anyone else but Jesus, the most fitted example for leadership.