True Leaders Are Not Lords

"The elders [leaders] who are among you, I exhort.....do not act as lords over God's heritage, but be examples to the flock" (1 Pet 5:1,2).

True leaders are not lords.  They function as servants of God's people.  Church leadership isn't a place of lordship, but it is a place of the lowly servant.  God's preparations are to teach us to have the attitude of a servant.

Jesus was the most humble and lowly of all men.  Like Jesus, a true leader won't avoid certain jobs because he feels they are below his dignity as a leader.  A secure leader is not threatened by menial tasks or humble responsibilities.

Paull wrote of Jesus, ".....although he existed in the form of God [He] did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped after, but emptied himself, taking the form of a bondservant and wad made in the likeness of men.

"And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himsellf by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross" (Phil 2:6-8).  Jesus was so secure in who He was, He didn't need to exalt himself.




Rev Dr. Ronnie Ng