Peter Drucker offers insightful guidance to the church when he calls leadership a peak performance by one who is "the trumpet that sounds a clear sound of the organizations' goals." His five requirements for this task are amazingly reliable and useful for those who dare to lead churches:

1. a leader works;
2. a leader sees his assignment as responsibility rather than rank or privilege;
3. a leader wants strong, capable, self-assured, independent associates;
4. a leader creates human energies and vision;
5. a leader develops followers' trust by his own consistency and integrity.