kenrus

3.8.05

THIS is an anointed book on leadership which caught my heart when i was browsing through the life bookshop. i have read the first 70 pages and it is fantastic! i strongly recommend everyone to get a copy to study or to give to anyone you think may need this book!! here is a page from the book

adapted from Jesus on Leadership by c. gene wilkes
Somtimes I like to imagine what certain events in the Bible were like - how they felt and looked and sounded. Remember the scene in Luke 14?

Jesus' disciples are standing along a wall in the courtyard. They appear to be an island of outcasts in the middle of an upper-class sea. A pharisee has invited Jesus over to meet some of hie religious buddies. Having the newest popular evangelist over to your house is a favourite sport among religous leaders. A banquet table is set. Jesus talks with the host and some of his synagogue buddies.

Someone announces that the meal is ready, and like horses in a chariot race, people make their way to seats around the tables. Some push their way to the head table.

Jesus observes this mad rush to the front. He turns to his followers and says, "When someone invites you to a banquet, do not grab a place of honor. Someone more important than you may have been invited. If that is so, the host who invited both of you will come to you and say, 'Give my friend your seat.' Then humiliated, you will have to take a less important place.

"So, when you are invited to a banquet, take the least important place, so that when your host comes he will say to you, 'Friend, what are you doing back here? Moving up to a better place by me!' Then you will be honored in front of all the other guests. Here's the punchline: everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles humself will be exalted."

After speaking, Jesus quietly reclines on a couch away from the host. His disciples continue to linger on a couch away from the host. His disciples continue to linger against the wall.

Thus, we have been given the first principle of servant leadership: Servant leaders humble themselves and wait for God to exalt them.

some other quotes
"leadership is not something you pursue. leadership is something others give to you"
"greatness is not a measure of self-will, but rather self-abandonment. the more you lose, the more you gain"
"taking the backseat and trusting God"
"waiting is trusting that timing is everything"

signing off with love at 2:50 PM

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