Jesus' believed in the message he was sent to proclaim. He spoke with conviction and with purpose. He knew there was power in his proclamation. In an age where preaching has fallen out of vogue, a wise leader will remember it's not our words that will ever cause a human heart to be transformed, only Christ's. Many leaders in the church today have succumb to gimmicks to draw in unsuspecting outsiders so that hopefully, if all the programming goes right, they might just look under the 'bed' and accidentally stumble upon this strange thing they's rather hide called the Gospel. Just doesn't seem to jive with what Jesus was saying in Mark 4:21, does it? 

Leaders who are truly following THE leader, will manifest the same conviction, compassion and commitment he had to faithfully shine forth the light of his truth into the darkness. Another leader, who really did follow Jesus' example, once put it this way, "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes" (Romans 1:15).