Encouraging - Loyalty

Loyalty is essential to leadership. The wise leader cultivates loyalty by being loyal – loyal to the Lord, loyal to the truth, and loyal to the people he leads. Nothing is more destructive of leadership than the leader who compromises his own loyalty….Leadership hinges on trust, and trust is cultivated by loyalty. Where trust is born and respect is maintained, sacrificial, devoted service is rendered. Another way to say this is that our hearts have to be in our people, and our people have to be in our hearts.

John MacArthur, The Book on Leadership (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, TN: 2004), 70-71.