Leading with Love

by Alexander Strauch

As a loving leader, make a deliberate effort to learn the heart-felt needs of those you lead and teach.

Loving leaders and teachers likewise will devote their lives to feeding God’s flock.

When we see pictures of emaciated, starving children our hearts grieve and we want to help. So, too, our hearts should grieve when we see God’s people emaciated and starving spiritually because of a famine of the Word of God.

love always seeks to provide loved ones’ needs and the greatest need people have is for the Word of God.

Love cannot bear to see loved ones in spiritual poverty, starving for the Word of God, and it will not leave them in ignorance.

lay out a clear biblical philosophy of teaching and preaching the Scriptures.

When church teachers and leaders refuse to warn the flock of false teachers, it is an outright dereliction of duty that will result in the flock being devoured

Sinners reproving sinners is always a precarious work that must be done with love (1 Cor. 16:14).

A wise man may indeed experience the heat [of anger], but he will do nothing till he cools again. When your clothes outside are on fire you wrap yourself in a blanket, if you can, and so smother the flame: in like manner, when your heart within has caught the fire of anger, your first business is to get the flame extinguished. Thereafter you will be in a better position to form a righteous judgment, and follow a safe course.

If you want to be a skillful confronter, always check your own attitude first and make sure you are under the control of the Holy Spirit.