Scholarship regarding servant leadership has recently focused on the organizational context, as well as the personal development of the leader. This chapter continues with this emphasis relating servant leadership to the leadership moment, a theory that takes seriously the moment in time that the ...
Christianity is a global religion. The strong missionary movement has brought diverse communities around the world to reflect their common beliefs about Jesus, whom adherents believe to be the Son of God, in a variety of ways. Music, stories and rituals reflect time and place. This chapter is...
…Complementarianism… in reality focuses on … God’s … binary design where thehusband’s leadershipis exercised through love and servant leadership and women are included as significant participants in the church’s mission. A biblical perspective of the male-female relationship in the church’s...
Like the Christian leaders, they basically ignore what triggers sexual attraction in both of the sexes. It’s very difficult to have a low-income and low-status married couple having a lasting marriage if they get bombarded all the time from the world, friends, family, and so on about how...
Genesis 19:1-38– “The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night...
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The drive to be a servant of the Lord, Edmison said, consumed him. “I always wanted to be the burning bush. I wanted God to talk to me like I was Moses,” Edmison said. “I kept my dog chained up so he wouldn’t be crushed by the tablets when they fell in my yard.” But,...
He’s just being a good servant. It is no wonder Mark has such a difficult time understanding what he has done wrong. He might have been loud, crude, or rude, but it was all in service of the Gospel — it produced results. It sent people to Heaven. And so he talks about wanting...
And Jesus reminded us that we should serve others in the same way when he said: “But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life...
13 Also keep Your servant back from presumptuous sins; Let them not rule over me; Then I will be innocent, And I will be blameless of great wrongdoing. 14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (NLT) Lo...