"Servant-hearted" leadership is a term that is often heard among church leaders. At one end of the spectrum of leadership styles in the world, we have autocratic, domineering, high-profile leadership that carries overriding authority in all matters. We think then about a tribe leader, a sovereign king or a prince-of-a-business CEO. At the other end of the spectrum, we have overly democratic consensual leadership models that give more room to opinion than they do to genuine gifting or spiritual maturity. Jesus is the great champion, the great leader, the head of the church, the one whose leadership we would all wish to follow and to which we would all be conformed. But what does it mean in our daily leadership practice when Jesus says, “But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant”?
