Harry, thanks for sitting down. For anybody that knows me, they know that I love you. You're

one of my favorite guys on planet Earth. You're a great golfer, but a great friend. I'm thankful

for your input and your perspective in my life. I want to talk to you in this episode about principles for spiritual leadership

or just maybe even leadership in general.

Maybe sometimes people don't necessarily view themselves as a leader,

but everyone to some degree is, whether in a friendship or a ministry or a service capacity,

need to understand these principles.

So I want to ask you, what are some biblical principles for leadership and where do we look

in God's word to find some of those?

Yeah, I know. Great question.

A. I agree that everybody has potential influence, which equals leadership.

Leadership is influence, baseline.

And that's for everybody.

For everybody.

Because it's not rooted in position.

It's rooted in influence.

And sometimes you can mistake a place or a position as necessary to have influence.

And that would not be an accurate perception or conviction.

Leadership is influence. and influence has ingredients,

factors that contribute to your ability to influence somebody else or others. So my favorite

passage, and I do teach this quite frequently because it's so valuable to me is First Thessalonians

chapter 2.

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