“The first steps toward improvement involve recognizing weaknesses, making corrections, and cultivating strengths. Many reasons explain why church leadership is less than the best, and some of the following considerations may apply to you. • Perhaps we lack a clearly… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“God will not cooperate with prayers of mere self-interest, or prayers that come from impure motives.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome,… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit. The Christian leader’s mind, emotions, will, and physical strength all become… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“He moved through life with measured steps, never hurried, though always surrounded by demands and crowds.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a “feel” for the proper words or responses to… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“The quality of a person’s leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Paul admitted to knowing fear, but it never stopped him. “I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling,” he reported… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
