Can You Become a Leader?

I came across a powerful set of questions in J. Oswald Sanders' book on leadership, Spiritual Leadership, which are worth considering for your own relationships with one another:

1. Do other people's failures annoy or challenge you?

2. Do you "use" people, or cultivate people?

3. Do you direct people, or develop people?

4. Do you criticize, or encourage?

5. Do you shun or seek out the person with a special need or problem?

These are pretty penetrating tests of our leadership potential. Spend some time thinking through which way you lean in each of these questions in each of your relationships.