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AFRIKA IS GOD’S

L I F E

LIVING IN FATHER’S EXPRESSION

BY SAMUEL PHILLIPS
The Heart of

LEADERSHIP

Samuel Phillips

eadership means various things to various people. And how people conceive and define lead-
ership always shows in how they use the concept, for what purpose and how they react when
someone that they thought was their follower suddenly takes a different turn. As an aside, I
personally think being a leader is who you are with God when no one is seeing you and when
Lno one is following you. I have heard someone say that you are a leader if you have people
following behind you. Sounds like a great definition, but I do not necessarily buy it. I have also heard a
pastor say in a church service that you know if you are valuable by the kind of people that follow you. That
too is only good for whatever anyone thinks it is good for. For I realize that listeners of such messages get
either very excited when they hear such statements, especially when they believe they have people of
"status" following them around or they get very sad when they suddenly realize that no "people of status"
are following them. And so people have gotten into messy mental situations because they do not fit into
the definition of what someone calls a leader. To me, that is absolutely uncalled for. It's like what I read
somewhere about a pastor who told his congregation of singles that if a man is not married at the age
of 35 then he is irresponsible. In my head I was like "I didn't know that Isaac the Biblical patriarch was
irresponsible, since he got married at the age of 40."
I have been told before that I am rebellious to authority and that I don't respect the concept of leadership
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