A Spiritual homily. How should you as a young Christian Leader handle Criticism? A simple question that has huge implications for the young leader. Get this wrong and you may well destroy what God has already built. For example, in days gone by the normal way to criticise was to face the person in open debate. It allowed both parties to defend their positions and for people to come to a conclusion as to the critics complaints. Later rather than openly debate they would write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper in order to vent their spleens on a particular topic. However today, the first recourse of those that have a complaint or criticism is social media, for all and sundry to see regardless of audience. Once it is out there it’s out there and there is nothing we can do, it would appear that today’s generation has very few filters. Criticism can be divided into three categories, True, Untrue or malicious. If it is true then respond do not react, do not appear t...