Eliashib shows us that servant leadership isn’t a deluxe or supplemental version of leadership; according to Jesus, it’s the only kind of leadership.
The greatest leaders focus on serving the interests of the people they lead rather than building their own reputation.
Thoughts from King David’s servant leadership (Psalm 143)… “And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant. (Psalm 143:12 ESV) 1. Servant leaders walk in humility (v2). 2. They “remember” and “meditate” on God’s faithfulness (v5). 3. They…
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’…
“Good leaders must first become good servants.” Robert Greenleaf Leaders serve. It’s that simple. We can’t love God without loving people and we can’t love people without serving people. Scripture is clear that there is a correlation between loving God and esteeming people (1 John 4:20). In John 13:1-17, Jesus is coming to the end…
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would…