Counselling leaders

Proverbs 11:14 states "Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." 

When people criticize their leaders for making mistakes instead of offering counsel on the better way of doing things, such leaders are likely to fail. 
Criticism may bring provocation, but offering wise counsel to leaders where and when necessary will help them to fully maximize their potential and become their best for God and the people they are serving.

As wise followers, we must offer our leaders good counsel with humility and pray for them so that they do not fall. The fall of any leader reflects poorly on the people they lead. Leaders make errors or mistakes through their leadership over those under them. If they weren't leaders, there is a likelihood that they wouldn't make such blunders. 

It is easy to see the flaws of any leader because they are in front of us. However, the day that God puts people who criticize their leaders in front, their unseen weaknesses will also be revealed. That is why it is our responsibility to offer our leaders our prayers and counsel to enable them to be the credible leaders that God intends them to be and to bring us into the fullness of God for our individual lives. 

We can suggest better ways that programs can be run in the church or ministries or offer our skills for the advancement of the Kingdom of God. However, we cannot impose our ideas on our leaders. They are servants of God to the people they are serving, but not the other way around. They are accountable to man in the area of people and money that is committed into their hands, but as far as the vision and operations of the ministries they are given by God, they are answerable to God and not to man. 

They will give an account of the ministries, peoples, and resources that God committed into their hands directly or indirectly when they meet God who called them. That is why we need to pray for them and rally around them so that they will not be a castaway in the end. 

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