benefit from the truths we discuss. The guidelines we present are for all Christians who seek to be spiritual leaders. Holding a leadership position in a Christian organization does not make one a spiritual leader. Spiritual leadership is not an occupation: it is a calling. Christian businesspeople, physicians, educators, politicians, and parents—all ought to be spiritual leaders. More and more people in “secular” occupations are taking their calling as spiritual leaders seriously, and they are impacting
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