Emphasis Preaching Journal

Peter Drucker offers insightful guidance to the church when he calls leadership a peak performance by one who is "the trumpet that sounds a clear sound of the organizations' goals." His five requirements for this task are amazingly reliable and useful for those who dare to lead churches:

* a leader works;
* a leader sees his assignment as responsibility rather than rank or privilege;
* a leader wants strong, capable, self-assured, independent associates;
* a leader creates human energies and vision; and