At the 32 FIEC Local Leaders’ Conferences held recently, participants have considered how good leadership is relational leadership. Johnny Prime, Associate National Director for the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches writes:
Good leadership thrives on good relationships; relationships in which the fruit of the Spirit is growing and maturing. From Galatians 5:13-26 we noticed four truths about the fruit of the Spirit.
It is relational, not individual. Or, to put it another way, horizontal, not vertical. The message of Galatians is that a right theology of justification by faith will be seen in loving relationships among God’s people. The fruit of justification is ‘faith expressing itself in love’ (Gal.5:6).
