Category: Christian Leadership

The Spiritual Life of a Leader

This month’s hero, Abel, left a legacy of faith; and Hebrews 11:4 tells us, “God counted Abel as righteous because of his faith.”

In his short life, Abel demonstrated a God-centered life.

Boyd Bailey’s 2021 book emphasizes The Spiritual Life of a Leader: A God-Centered Leadership Style.  Bailey is founder of Wisdom Hunters, a ministry whose daily devotional emails help more than 100,000 readers connect with Christ. He also wrote Learning to Lead Like Jesus, which I summarized in 2020.

Larry Green first met Boyd Bailey about 15 years ago and said, “I immediately realized I was in the presence of a man who was living out the same passion for God that was awakening within me. A man whose spiritual leadership was born out of his intimate walk with Jesus.  Boyd will take you on a journey of discovery and growth as a spiritual leader in a personal, approachable, vulnerable, loving, humble, and yet penetrating way, all the while being guided by God’s Word. You will come away knowing the very heart of the author and his Author.”

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Abel Speaks to Us Today

As Trillia Newbell noted in her study entitled A Great Cloud of Witnesses: A Study of Those Who Lived by Faith, God wasn’t pleased with Cain’s offering because it wasn’t a sacrificial offering.  Cain offered the leftovers rather than the first fruits. Abel’s offering, however, was a sign of his faith—it was sacrificial.

Abel lived a short life—one that, looking on from a distance, would seem too tragic for anything good to come of it.  He was the first person murdered in the Old Testament, and he died a senseless death at the hands of his own brother.  But in his short life, Abel leaves us a legacy of faith.  His faithful sacrifice is written for us to remember; his faith still speaks to us today.  And it is noted that God counted Abel as righteous because of his faith (Hebrews 11:4).

Most of us will only be remembered by our immediate family—but we can leave a legacy of faith.  May our faith still speak, even if only to our immediate family.

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