In Leadership: Driven

Driven: Propelled or Motivated by something.

Apostle Ronald D. Howell Sr. is one of the most driven men I have ever known.  He is the senior shepherd for the church that i attend, Life Changers International New Horizon.  Here is a man that s  not only spiritually fit, he preaches well over 250 sermons a year, he's also physically fit; he can get up and run 3 miles in the morning, then come to the gym in the afternoon and lead us through a grueling weight lifting routine where a majority of the weight we're lifting is over 200lbs, and while we are resting he'll be doing another exercise.  Nothing about this man is normal.  He does all this and is over 50 years of age.  Apostle Howell has taught us that if we are comfortable than we're not operating out of faith, and his whole life is representative of this.  None of the 60+ leaders that he is over can say that they have surpassed him, no matter how hard we work, how far we go, he's always in the front leading the way. 

This is what a leader should be, someone whose followers cannot pass.  Once you are passed by the people that you're leading then you are no longer a leader.  In this I don't mean that you have to be the smartest or the most technical, but you have to be someone that is constantly leading from the front.  Someone whose followers know that when they look back they won't see you bringing in the rear.

Apostle Howell is somebody that is driven by a purpose and refuses to quit.  His whole life is  an example of Philippians 3:12-14 when the Apostle Paul said "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.  Brethren I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

As a driven leader this must be your attitude, even if you're not a christian you should still have a focus that you're driven towards.  The people that we lead must see that we are constantly moving toward a goal, they must see that our life is constantly pressing to the next level of accomplishment.  We can never appear to be complacent as leaders.