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Modern management research has talked much about meaning and sense-making for leaders and managers (e.g. Morgan, 1993; Pfeffer, 1980; Weick, 1979). The emerging literature on – and practical concern in the marketplace with – spirituality (spiritual nature of humans) has been based primarily on the assumption that humans have a real need for spiritual attention in all organizational settings. This spiritual attention is understood to relate to the creation of meaning in the work we do (e.g. Ashmos & Duchon, 2000; Mitroff & Denton, 1999). Strangely enough, while leaders and managers are expected to help organizational followers to create meaning and make sense of the environment, little has been said about the role of leaders in creating spiritual meaning and well-being. In this paper, we propose to develop a model of spiritual leadership that reflects a Christian perspective. Models of spiritual leadership will emerge from the intense interest in organizational spirituality (e.g. Fry, 2003), yet most of these models will be based on worldview assumptions that if not specifically hostile to Christian principles are likely not consistent with Christian principles. Thus, we believe that the spirituality “movement ” must include Christian voices and models. In the development of our model, we will first explore the spiritual nature of human beings, an