A biblical perspective on spiritual leadership: an elder's qualification comes from managing his household well, not credentials. Real love for God shows in how you love those closest to you, where it's hardest to practice.
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Well, there's a lot of thoughts that come to mind. I mean, Paul said to Timothy that the qualifications for an elder were how he led his own home, right? And so the qualifications were, even as you said, it's not your education, your degrees, your worldly experience, but how do you relate to those closest to you and those that are in your family first? I think it's from 1 John where he says, you know, not just leading, but he says, how can you say you love God if you can't love your brother and your sister, right? And it's in those often closest relationships where our ability to love others is most tried and tested. And even as we talked about last time on my episode of I'm not condemned when I fail to do that well, but it's an opportunity to learn. How do I do that better? How do I need to rely on the Lord to give me his love for those who I may be finding it hard to love? How do I navigate this situation? And, you know, all at the same time recognizing they are also their own people and we're not responsible for their decisions and responsiveness to our leadership.
Amen.
How do you balance that?
Yeah. That is a tough balance because there are times when, like, you have to use the wisdom in terms of, like, when do you let go, when do you not? There's something that I struggle with. Oh, maybe I have to change my sentence structure, but God is really working on me with which is that, to me, was like, just hit it straight, Jhane, just hit it straight. Don't sugarcoat it. Just be assertive and hit it. He's really— because it has a lot to do with leadership. So I'm really growing in that area.
