UNDERSTANDING THE PECULIARITIES OF SECULAR AND SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP- PART 2
Earlier in this week's publication, we were made to understand that there are so many ways of categorizing leaders and all these are mostly based on the people they are leading. The Bible talks about two divides in the book of 2Peter 1:3 and that is Life and Godliness and in contemporary terms, this refers to Secular and Spiritual.
Leadership doesn't exist apart from the leader. Let's examine the peculiarities of these two types of leadership.
Spiritual leadership anchor's on influencing people from within and replicating the pattern and ways of life that is controlled by the renewal or awakening of the spirit man. It is ultimately predicted on the life, teachings and practice of Jesus. It aims to bring people into a closer relationship with the Lord Jesus. The personality of spiritual leader influences others because it penetrates, saturates and empowers by the Holy Spirit. As the leader gives control of his life to the spirit of God then the spirit's power through him to others. A spiritual leader receives his vision from God, so because of this he must submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit .. Oswald Sander define leadership as the capacity to rally men and woman to a common purpose and the the character which inspire confidence. The fundamental asset a spiritual leader can have access to is divine direction,he must be submitted to the guidance of the Holy Spirit to fulfill God's plan. A spiritual leader does not own the vision,God does,he is just a steward for God's purpose.
Bill Lawrence said Leadership is the act of influencing and serving others out of Christ’s interests in their lives so they accomplish God’s purposes for and through them.
Secular leadership is simply the style based on the philosophy and wisdom of man. The word ‘secular’ is derived from the Latin "saeculum", which is one of the Latin words for world. It refers to our existence as material beings in the material cosmos.
Secular leadership is the pattern that guides the majority of leaders in the world today and is expressed in most areas like work, community and even family secular leadership is as the results of the leadership seed God planted to Adam before the fall,to every living being there is a leadership seed ,who will submit our soul to determine the growth of the seed. If we submit our soul to the things of the world then we will operate according to the dictate of the world and if we submit our souls to the things of the living word,the we will operate according to the dictate of the living word. Half of the harm that is done in this world,is due to people who want to feel important in the world. Secular leaders are boss of the people because they tend to rule by instincts and not by the spirit.
When the first man, Adam fell, the Spirit of perfection left him, He was no longer perfect but good or bad, so before Christ's appearance here on earth, human beings were either good or bad. Men in their natural state after the fall became either good or bad. Secular leadership does not means evil leadership. It's just the world kind of leadership. Secular leadership can be good or bad but spiritual leadership in this Kingdom is perfect because it is the God kind, the Faith kind and the Love kind.
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