Red Letters/Black Letters: Day 70: On Servant Leadership

"But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be the younger,

and he who governs as he who serves. For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves?

Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves." Luke 22:26-27

Not sure if you've noticed or not, but Servant Leadership has been something of a buzzword within the church for the last few decades. It may well have started out from a pure place but it seems to have been corrupted as of late. It seems that we are focusing more and more on the Leadership and less and less on Servant.

Jesus never once refers to himself as anyone's leader, yet he called himself a servant multiple times, yet people have followed him to their deaths for roughly 2000 years. Those in leadership positions within the church tend to see themselves as CEOs or Presidents, Jesus told us to pick a cross and carry it. Those in some churches turn on the TV cameras and the podcasts, Jesus says the last shall be first.

I do not want to be a CEO. 

I do not want to be a leader.

I only hope that I can help people believe in the love of God. I don't care about reaching the world for Christ, I care about Christ reaching the world.

If you need something let me know. You'd never consider me your leader, but perhaps I can be your friend and then I can tell you how much Jesus loves you.

+ On the spectrum of Servant ----- Leader where do you hope to end up?

+ Why?