Spiritual Leadership: D.E Hoste

If I am to LEAD . . . is a 20 page booklet based on the life and writings of D.E. Hoste. D.E. Hoste was one of the Cambridge Seven. He was also was the successor to J. Hudson Taylor as the General Director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship previously known as the China Inland Mission.

He once said "If I have any gift at all, I feel it is along the lines of applying Christian principles to life."

The main topics of the booklet are:

1. Spiritual Leadership


2. Qualifications for Leadership


3. Preparation for Leadership


4. Relationshi[ to Fellow-workers


5. Ability to Make Use of Men


6. Speaking as the Oracles of God


7. The Practice of Prayer (including fasting)


8. True Humility


9. The Secret of Submission


10. Self-discipline

Noteable quotes:

"The practical point is that they are really men and women of prayer, deeply distrustful of their own judgment and impulses, only forming opinions and expressing them as taught and guided by the Holy Spirit."

"It is a fact that our minds cannot receive correct impressions of God's plan and methods for the carrying on of the work unless much time is given to waiting upon Him."

"To take the lowly place in a misunderstanding; when slighted or hurt to go under the slight or hurt, humbling oneself under the mighty hand of God, relying on Him in due season to exalt one, is faith in operation."

If I am to LEAD . . . by Dixon Edward Hoste is a short, quick shot in the arm.

If I Am to Lead