There is much to say about each of the individual qualities on this list, but here we simply want to note Paul Tripp’s simple yet critical observation: “What should strike every leader about this list of leader qualities, the thing that jumps off the page, is that above everything else you want in a leader, God values character.”32 In other words, in the long list, most everything is about a leader’s character; only a single characteristic pertains to giftedness (teaching). Depending on how the traits are counted, the ratio is as drastic as twelve to one.
