Mark Sayers on Leadership and Service

If you follow this link you can read a really short but non the less thought provoking post by Mark Sayers on screenagers and their perspective of Leadership. 

While I am probably a little old (!!??) to fall into the generation which he is referring, when I thought back about my time at seminary I can't honestly say that we covered the idea of real servant leadership in much depth. The reality has been that you do hear far too often about how a junior pastor has fallen out with the senior pastor, and my honest assessment is that in far too many cases (though not, of course by any means 100% of them) it has come down to the issue of what my friend Tom calls "the bending of the knee".

 

I'm not even talking about bending it for the congregation- I'm talking about bending it to their boss!!

It seems extraordinary to me that there are leaders out there who do not hold the view that as an associate pastor ones primary role is to serve the senior pastor. To make what he wants to happen happen. 

Until some of us can grow up and get our heads around this I think it will not just be to the detriment of the church, but the to the world at large as well. 

Comments

[David Cooke]

Thanks for this. I strongly concur. My service and submission must be to the Pastor who leads me. To not see this as a given is, and continues to be, a source of unnecessary conflict and turmoil for those who have not yet understood this.