Leadership and the danger of unrepentant sin...

Spiritual leaders face many tricky circumstances, setbacks and tragedies, but the biggest threat that we leaders ever face is the failings of our own character.

The rather disconcerting thing about spiritual leadership is that every leader contains within themselves the seeds of their own destruction: "...sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you…" (Gen. 4v7).

Now, of course, a call to take on leadership has to require a level of spiritual maturity and growth, and a commitment to sanctification. But that call to ministry never assumes a sinless spiritual maturity.