15 questions to evaluate your biblical leadership health

Ralph Mayhew Jan. 15, 2018

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We evaluate leadership all the time. However, when was the last time you evaluated your biblical leadership health? 

Some of you don’t even realize you’re evaluating leadership. However,  we all appreciate great leadership as much as we dislike poor leadership. Are you happy with every decision made by a government politician in the last 12 months? If not, you have evaluated a leader’s performance.

I have long subscribed to the axiom: It’s easier to learn how to lead from bad leaders than it is from good ones. Poor leadership is easy to learn from because what not to do is highlighted in stark contrast. Great biblical leadership, however, presents far more of a challenge.

Paul instructed the church at Rome (Romans 12:8), that if anyone is gifted to lead they should lead with diligence. Steward your gift responsibly, passionately, generously. How then do we know if we are leading in such a way that aligns with scripture?

How healthy is your leadership?

The following 15 questions will help you evaluate the quality of your leadership. These questions can also be applied to your team, others you admire or those you’re looking to bring onto your team or develop.

You’ll notice these questions require you to think, instead of providing obvious conclusions. Learning how to evaluate leadership is an art every leader needs to develop. Evaluating ourselves is even harder. However, the more time you spend doing it, the healthier you will become and the better leaders you will develop.

1. What are you building that is not about you?

2. How do you value people for who they are over what they can contribute to you?

3. How are you becoming more like Jesus, in every setting?

4. How are you overcoming limitations and obstacles and encouraging others to do the same?

5. What good things are people doing as a result of your influence?

6. How resilient are you?

7. How systematic and reliable is your leadership?

8. What are you like under immense pressure, both personal and professional?

9. What are signs of emotional maturity or immaturity in your thought life?

10. Are you inspired and if so, by what?

11. How are you gathering people around yourself to advance the Kingdom?

12. How teachable and humble would others say you are?

13. How do you treat people from whom you have nothing to gain?

14. In what ways is your leadership creative?

15. What concerns do you have about your character?

Learning to evaluate ourselves requires us to think honestly, robustly and analytically, which is what these questions help you do. Identifying where we need to grow in biblical leadership and how we might do that is very important.

I hope these questions help you become a better and healthier biblical leader.

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Rev. Ralph Mayhew has been leading people for more than 20 years. He is a lead pastor, author and seminary lecturer in practical theology and ministry and has a Masters in Christian Leadership. At the beginning of 2017, after 14 years of ordained ministry, he planted Burleigh Village Church; a local church encouraging people to think Jesus. He has written several books among them The Anonymous Leader: An Unambitious Pursuit of Influence and How To Create The Organizational Culture You Want.

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