What kind of leadership does God expect for his churches? What kind of leadership shows that a local church really is the work of God? Paul’s answer provides a profoundly refreshing and challenging contrast to the models of leadership we find in the world.
Labour that establishes the healthy church
1 Thessalonians 2:9-12
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

