Men like Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren and emerging church pastor Erwin McManus talk a lot about being leaders but draw their views largely from secular business practices. In a question and answer session Dr. John MacArthur discusses success and leadership from a true Christian perspective:

Question: You said in the past that you don’t really concern yourself with the breadth of how God blesses the ministry through you and through this church, but your concern is in the depth of your ministry and your personal growth with God.

Answer:  When I say I don’t concern myself with the breadth, that means that I don’t spend my time and energies trying to extend the ministry, trying to get a bigger church. I’m not spending my time trying to figure out ways to advertise Grace Church or ways to build up Grace Church in the public image or ways to creatively draw crowds or get money or somehow reach more people.

I never have worked hard to expand our radio into more stations and more stations and more. In fact, I haven’t given in my entire life an hour to that, collectively! My concern is always to do what I need to do to rightly handle, proclaim the Word of God, live out the Word of God, and make sure that the Word of God is rightly represented in the people that are around me.

You can read the rest of what this real man of God has to say right here.