Leadership means you have no rights

In leadership, we lose are rights to ourselves and have a responsibility to become servants. Our duty is to pursue what is best for those we serve. This is how God leads us. God pursues out best. Every leader is under this truth, to serve others under God, who pursues are best. And because of this, leaders cannot pursue our own vision. They have no rights to themselves. Leaders are responsible to die to themselves and to lay our lives down as living sacrifices, and let God’s vision rule in their service to others.

Outcomes

Some will measure the success of ministry by outcomes, God measures success as denying ourselves, taking up our cross and following Him and trusting Him on the outcome, for He does not fail.

Quote from The Book of Leadership by John MacArthur

“I occasionally hear Christians say, ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if that famous person over there, or this stunning beauty over here, or some great genius in the academic world became a Christian? What impact they would have!’ God does occasionally use such people, but Paul says, ‘not many,’”