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Friday Oct 24 CCRDA

Friday Oct 24 CCRDA. Servant Leadership. At the end of the day leadership isn’t about us. It’s not really even about the people we’re leading . It’s about whether God gets served. Thomas Addington and Stephen Graves in “Holistic Leadership” The L ife@Work Journal (Sept-Oct 2000) 96.

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Friday Oct 24 CCRDA

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  1. Friday Oct 24CCRDA Servant Leadership

  2. At the end of the day leadership isn’t about us. It’s not really even about the people we’re leading. It’s about whether God gets served. Thomas Addington and Stephen Graves in “Holistic Leadership” The Life@Work Journal (Sept-Oct 2000) 96

  3. A leader lives with people to know their problems. A leader lives with God in order to solve them. Dr. John C. Maxwell

  4. A Test of Servant-Leadership “Ultimately, a leader is not judged so much by how well he or she leads, but how well he or she serves. All value and contribution are achieved through service. Do we have any other purpose in life but to serve?” Kevin Cashman

  5. Seven Principles for being a Servant Leader from John 13:1-17 • Serving has no limits (v1) • Serving is based on one’s relationship to God(v2-3) • Serving is caring (v4) • Only as we let Jesus serve us, can we serve Him.(6-9)

  6. Seven Principles for being a Servant Leader from John 13:1-17 • Serving is without discrimination (v 11-12) • You can serve without loss of your position orstatus (v 13) • The serving example was for all time (v 15-17)

  7. To serve is to lead &to lead is to serve

  8. Biblical insights on Serving • “God created us for service” (Genesis 2:15). The fall of mankind came about when Adam and Eve stopped serving and sought to be like God. (Genesis 3:5) • Satan despises serving (Isaiah 14: 13-14) • Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only” (Matthew 4:10)

  9. Biblical insights on Serving • “Serve one another in love (Galatians 5:13) • “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15). It is our choice to make. • “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men... it is the Lord Christ you are serving” (Colossians 3:23-24) • Christian leaders are “to prepare God’s people for works of service” (Ephesians 4:12)

  10. Spirituality of Leadership “The great spiritual gift that comes as one takes the inward journey is to know for certain that who I am does not depend on what I do.

  11. Spirituality of Leadership Identity doesn’t depend on degrees. It doesn’t depend on functioning. It depends only on the simple fact that I am a child of God, valued and treasured for what I am.

  12. Spirituality of Leadership When a leader knows that – the classroom is different, the hospital is different, and the office is different. ... Dr. Parker J. Palmer

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