Last week I was able to sit down and talk with someone about their walk and what they wanted to do with it. I was real excited to hear about the amazing things I heard that God was doing. She started talking about becoming a leader and how much power she soon would have. I got a sour stomach at this point, because of what she had said. Not because I didn’t want her to be a leader, but maybe she had the wrong idea or focus on leadership.
I found many books about leadership since in this point of my own life I have minor leadership roles myself in my church.
So I started to search a few scriptures to see if maybe I was making the wrong approach.In Scripture, I don’t see Jesus calling us to leadership; At least, not the kind of leadership that’s written and talked about in the business circles.
I believe our mindset given to us by the world is that every good leader should take charge and take initiative and be all mighty powerful and it’s all about me scenario. Jesus calls leadership something that nobody else does.
It’s leadership from our hearts.
Common names would be volunteering or serving.
The word talks about how He talked of giving cold water in His name.; or how He wrapped a towel around His waist and washed the apostles’ feet.
He led by serving other people not of himself.. That’s our call today. That’s what we should be doing. Rolling our sleeves up and getting sweaty and dirty. Not worry about who gets the credit. But allowing Him to be glorified through our service.
That night I journaled that I wanted to be reminded on a daily basis, Lord I want to be a leader from my heart. I want to glorify you through my leadership, I want people to take this Christ Journey with me, not too drag them along in my sight of being “Big and Bad”.
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March 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm
maybe you should enter this one!!