The Effect of Leaders: Developing or Enslaving Others?
Servant leaders genuinely desire to empower and develop their followers. Their ultimate goal is to convert followers into leaders.
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Servant leaders genuinely desire to empower and develop their followers. Their ultimate goal is to convert followers into leaders.
The Power of the Supernatural: Churches are quite prone to the rise of abusive leadership – particularly churches that embrace the supernatural. This is because the presence of the supernatural in the life of a leader – in the form of healings, deliverances, the prophetic, etc. – can confirm his higher symbolic status [...]
In the face of abusive leadership, followers may react in one of three ways:
The most central and important characteristic of a healthy leader is a strong personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Servant leaders lead out of a deep and abiding security in Christ. Abusive leaders, however, usually are very insecure. There are other reasons why certain leaders become abusive, but insecurity is one of the main ones [...]
In Matthew 20:25-28, Jesus said that kingdom leadership is of a fundamentally different nature than the leadership of the world.