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LEADERS ARE
PROMOTERS
“There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the saints. For I know
your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling
them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm
has stirred most of them to action. But I am sending the brothers in order that our
boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be
ready, as I said you would be. For if any Macedonians come with me and find you
unprepared, we – not to say anything about you – would be ashamed of having been
so confident. So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance
and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be
ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given”
(II Cor. 9:1-5).A good leader must not only exemplify attributes and attitudes like
being purposeful, positive, and passionate; he must also be a good promoter.
If the leader’s purpose is positive, it is worthy of promoting so others
can become involved in it. An effective leader understands that people
are looking for worthy causes in which to invest their time, talent and
treasures. A leader blesses and dignifies other people’s lives by involving
them in a noble cause. Not to promote a worthy cause among people
is to allow them to settle down to a lower and less noble life. It is to
rob them of the joy and satisfaction of giving themselves to something
that is greater than they. In spite of the innate sinfulness and selfishness
of mankind, everyone has a deep inner call of the spirit to altruism –
an unselfish concern for others. A wise spiritual leader knows that it is
only this kind of involvement in the needs of others that brings lasting