What is the most successful model of leadership these days? What most easily comes to mind when leadership is mentioned? Prime Minister? President? Donald Trump? CEO?
Leadership now is about who is most powerful, who has the power of decision, who ultimately controls. CF leaders, church leaders, Christian leaders….all begin to look like what is out there. Power, commanding loyalty, and one-man shows have become very attractive. There’s hardly any place for team.
Come, take a look around us. What type of people are we choosing to be our leaders? Maybe we have fallen into the trap of looking for CEO-like characters
“…Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,…” (Mark 10:43-44)
Where has the true servant Jesus talked about gone to? Is now an era where servanthood is no longer ‘in’? Isn’t the Bible’s model of a leader outdated? Would we even want to respect such a person if he could be found?
CEO vs servant? You choose and you tell us how it should be.
3 comments:
Stop watching The Aprentice and start reading the Bible. Period.
it's not about whether the person is CEO-liked or not;
it's about whether the person is servant-liked or not, or rather, Jesus-liked or not.
it's good if the leader is decisive,strong will minded.etc.
but it's more important the leader is humble and know how to work in a team, and live in a community.
shalom.
i think the temptation to be powerfull is very real, we would rather lord over others or have others follow what we want them to do than serving someone. i think to be like Jesus is to try to let Him be my master in whatever I do.
dg
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