What Is The Difference Between Leadership And Position?
Leadership is an art (skill) and an act (action). It is defined by dictionary.com to mean: “the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group,” which is synonymous to administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.” This x-rays leadership to be far from kingship, dictatorship, and alienated from selfish ambition. Leadership is more of service than being served. Leadership is influence, not titles. Someone said: “A person who thinks he is leading, but no one is following is only taking a walk.” Every good leadership is learned through followership. No bad follower can make a good leader.
Simple Qualities For Outstanding Leaders
• Have integrity.
• Love to work.
• Make a higher level of commitment.
• Serve others (Mt 20:26), this is the leadership attitude. That breeds result.Position simply means chair. Dictionary.com defines it to mean: “a place where someone or something is located or has been put. Leadership in essence means the ability, skill and what you do or is doing with the chair you are given in a place.

Painfully people can die just to get ‘chair,’ but lack the technical know-how on the sitting mechanics of the place and position of the same chair.We are in leadership because of the chair given to us by God and men. How we sit and handle same counts before God and man.
What Happens When You Sit On A Chair Wrongly?
• The chair might break.
• The chair might lose its beauty.
• The chair might lose its relevance.
• It might become a chair anybody can sit anyhow and anytime.
• It may even be carried away carelessly, among others.
Keys To Being A Better Leader
• It is an opportunity to serve
• It is time bound
• You may never have a second chance
• Posterity will judge and score your input, therefore, be mindful of your scorecard.
• Your offspring may be affected positively or otherwise by your leadership style.
• You are accountable to the Supreme Leader, who is God, Almighty.
• Those you imparted, today, may be those that will uphold you tomorrow.
• Life consists not in the abundance of our acquisition.
• The people you met on your way up, you may meet them on your way down, sow a good seed.
• Never take advantage of the vulnerable.
Why Leaders Fail
• Not thinking of the future.
• The feeling that it may last forever.
• The feeling of ‘this is my time and turn.’
• The feeling of ‘enjoy it while it last.’
• The quest for gain.
• Taking advantage of the position to get back to their opponents and oppress the vulnerable.
• The egocentric mindset of ‘am in charge.’
• Self-trust rather than God.
• Failure to lead by God’s standard.
• Making yourself a demi-god.
• Notrealising that ‘Life is short, nothing is permanent.’

The Man God Will Use
• God uses the man who yields to his will.
• God uses the man who never gives up.
• God uses the man who is ready to bend.
• God uses the man who is kingdom-oriented and growth-driven.
• God uses the man who is not reward-driven, but kingdom-driven.
• God uses the man who is ready to risk all for God including failure.
• God uses the man who is ready to obey and is careful to instructions.
God’s will is that the church will grow. No kind of growth is accidental; certain factors are responsible for any kind of growth to occur. If the church is not growing it is either the wrong method is applied or the right method is applied wrongly. It is not enough to have a good message. It is also important to have a good messenger who will deliver the message accurately using the right method. The world is constantly changing, in church growth the church must be relevant with time without drifting from the truth of God’s word.

God’s vessel for growth are not just men with collar or title, every child of God, irrespective of colour, height, educational qualification or affiliation is meant to be an instrument of church growth.

If the church must grow, both the low and mighty must be involved. The children, the youth, the women and men all have a part to play in growing the church. Titles are modern, awards are baits, but God’s wills that the vessels for church growth ought to be men of sincere hunger for kingdom expansion.
Are you part of growth in your church? God gives men opportunity in life not for selfish reasons, but for the overall good of humanity and in particular to His praise and glory. You are here today is not a guarantee that you will be here tomorrow. Look around, you will see how many celebrated mighty men that have fallen, and they are soon forgotten. Woe is the man who has no one to keep him company when old or lonely because he sowed not into any life.
You have a part to play in God’s kingdom and the growth of the church within your own location. Desire to grow, have a hunger to grow and be established unto all goodness.
• Venerable Stephen Wolemonwu is the Rector,IbruEcumenical Centre, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State (08035413812)