Leadership is both a function and a fruit of a Spiritual climate. A spiritual environment is measurable in people’s societal values, mindsets, characters, capacities, dreams, and aspirations. Although deeper than these measures, a spiritual climate can enable or disable a leader. It can accommodate, facilitate or frustrate the purpose of God. The socio-cultural, economic and political structures are primarily shaped by one spiritual climate or the other. It can facilitate or deter development. Wicked leaders thrive in some places but are expunged in others. A pertinent question would be why places with abundant human and natural resources are abandoned and undeveloped, while the same people thrive in better ecosystems.

Every leader should know the environment they inherit, share, or bequeath to others in their home, workplace, community, or nation. Leaders of the African public should be skilled to create a positive and enabling ecosystem to birth the African dream and sustain the African renaissance.

This month, we dig deeper to differentiate among spiritual climates and a biblical leader’s capacity to govern them.