Tuesday July 18th, 2023
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24 The apostles got into an argument about which one of them was the greatest.
25 So Jesus told them: Foreign kings order their people around, and powerful rulers call themselves everyone’s friends.
26 But don’t be like them. The most important one of you should be like the least important, and your leader should be like a servant.
27 Who do people think is the greatest, a person who is served or one who serves? Isn’t it the one who is served? But I have been with you as a servant.
Understand:
Leadership is very vital to God’s created order, so much so that even animals have a way of choosing leaders among themselves.
When you watch wildlife documentaries, you will appreciate how important leadership is in fulfilling God’s plans and purpose in the affairs of living creatures, today, we shall be considering leadership from God’s perspective. I believe this will help us to set our priorities in order as we go about our leadership obligations wherever God has placed us, whether in the family, school, church, community of country.
In today’s Bible reading, our Lord Jesus Christ taught godly leadership principles in response to an argument among His disciples on who should be their leader,
He also taught them practically with His leadership lifestyle. He specifically said in Luke 22:27:
“Who do people think is the greatest, a person who is served or one who serves? Isn’t it the one who is served? But I have been with you as a servant.”
In this verse, the Lord established the principle of leadership by example.
It is however amazing that many do not lead by example.
Even in the Church today, some leaders demand hero-worships from the flock of Jesus Christ.
Many guest ministers dictate the type of hotel accommodation their host should provide for them as part of the preconditions for accepting invitations to Minister God’s word.
Some even have a “price list” stating the honorarium they must receive and the class of flight they must be flown in.
Instead of the richer ministers to support the upcoming ones with the wealth of experience they have, they scare them away from partaking of their anointing through the enormous cost of inviting them for ministration.
Some senior pastors are becoming burdensome to junior ones because just one statutory visit from them places unbearable financial obligation on their growing parishes.
For the spread of the gospel not be inhibited, we must go back to the leadership principles of our Lord in John 13:13-15NKJV, which says:
13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.”
Beloved, only the principle of leadership through service can stand the test of time, even in the political arena.
Selfish and self-centered leadership does not endure beyond the ordained tenure of a leader.
Let us follow the leadership principles of Jesus Christ, built on love and firmness and devoid of hypocrisy.
Prayer point: Father, impart in me the leadership traits of Jesus Christ my Lord.
Author: Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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