The Most Pressing Global Leadership Issue Facing Our World Today

…IS NOT MONEY.  MONEY IS ATTAINABLE. IT IS NOT RESOURCES. RESOURCES ARE REPLENISHABLE. NOR IS IT SPACE; for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1, NKJV). Everything in this world belongs to God. Everything (Psalm 50: 10), and there is nothing that He will withhold from us when we need it (Philippians 4:19 & Psalm 84:11) – “no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly” (NKJV); which brings me to the issue at hand – CREDIBILITY.

When time after time those who have been entrusted with our care repeatedly fail to maintain our trust – what are we to do? From the board room to the pulpit and government officials to trusted pastors and priests – there has unfolded a trail of wounded and damaged souls as a result of a lack of credibility from those we have entrusted with our very lives. How do we rise up from this state of near ruin?

We, the people, must no longer look for a ‘feel good’ remedy, but we must nurture and train up leaders who are not afraid of going against the ‘status quo’. We must set standards and maintain boundaries that will help to produce responsibility and accountability in those who step up into positions of leadership. Leadership is not about gaining an audience for one’s own claim to fame. Leadership is about the people. It is about putting others before oneself. Philippians 2:3 says, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves” (NIV).

All too often leaders have either come aboard in a self-seeking manner or throughout the course of leadership they have deviated from doing what was right. Unfortunately, this issue has become all-to-familiar in the last few decades. Nonetheless, there is a remedy for this dilemma in that God says, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicle 7:14, NIV).

We, the body of Christ, must take our strategic positions and be conduits for change in this earth for we are the salt therein.