Task of leadership

What is the fundamental responsibility of a leader?.what must spiritual leaders do to fulfil their Mission?.

At this point we need a clear understanding of the meaning of leadership, particularly spiritual leadership. How is leadership suitable for a ministry, setting, defined?.

God has given believers a special quality to leader others. Leadership is characterized and described in a variety of ways by different authors, each writing a certain organizational frame work.

Interpersonal influence exercised in a situation and directed through the communication process, towards the attainment of a special goal or goals.

A leader behavioural skill includes the ability to help others achieve their potential as individuals and team members. The process of persuasion and example by which an individual or leadership team induces a group to take action, that is in accord with the leader's purposes or shared purposes of all.

Each definition contains some

Interpersonal influence exercised in a situation and directed through the communication,process of toward the attainment of a special goal or goals.

A leader behavioural skill includes the ability to help others achieve their potential as individuals and team members. The process of persuasion and example by which an individual and team members. The process of persuasion and example by which an individual or leadership team induces a group to take action that is in accord with the leader's purposes or shared purposes of all.

Each definitions contains some insight, yet each seem to fall short income respect, especially when we consider spiritual leadership in the church.

Spiritual leadership is the development of relationships with people of a Christian institution or body in such a way that individuals and the group are enabled to formulate and achieve biblically compatible goals that meet real needs. By their ethnical influence, spiritual, leaders serve to motivate and enable others to achieve that otherwise would never be achieved.

Leadership and management.

We should distinguish between leadership and management, although sometimes the difference are pushed too far and become continued. There is overlap between leadership and management, and the dissimilarities are not always sharply defined. A good leader must have good management skills, and good managers usually have some leadership qualities. It is difficult to imagine a good manager who not a leader and vice versa.

Qualities of good leaders

*Vision: A leader has greater vision than a manager. Leaders think long term, beyond the day to day operations, beyond the immediate horizons that often limit the vision of managers and followers.

*Renewal: leaders are always interested in the revision of process and structure, with eye towards changing outmoded methods, defining new goals, tapping new resources, motivating or enlisting personnel and invigorating the group and it individuals.

Leaders strategies.

What do leaders do in the exercise of spiritual enablement? By what ethnical and biblical compatible methodology do they operate so that leaders and followers raise another to higher level of spiritual achievement and realization? What spiritual responsibilities do leaders accept in carrying out their unique influence in the church? These fundamental activities in the leader's table of spiritual enablement.

*Leaders listen

*Leaders build team

*Leaders inspire

*Leaders focus on values

*Leaders balance priority.