Thank God today for the leaders of your church who teach and lead you along the right path.
“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring.” My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.” (Hosea 9 v 15-17)
Good leaders honour what God did in the past and encourage others to make the same commitments their ancestors did. (Gilgal was the place that the Israelites first encamped after the miraculous crossing of the Jordan River but which later became the centre of idolatry).
Good leaders are continually calling people from drifting from the presence of God (these people would soon be driven from His home and into exile).
Good leaders are not focused on their own gain but are focused on the legacy that they leave behind (difficult to read perhaps but the One who forms us in our womb will lift His protection on future generations).
Good leaders teach the Bible in a way that it must be obeyed (they were rejected because the people didn’t obey).
Good leaders teach the Old testament history in light of a New testament covenant which is of course so much better (because of Jesus’ blood there is no hate, no being driven away, no blighting of the future, no withering, no fruitlessness, no slaying, no rejection and no more wandering, thank you Jesus!)
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