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Servant leadership represents a model of leadership that is both inspirational and contains moral safeguards, and in their paper, Mulyadi Robin and Sen Sendjaya proposes that servant leadership serves as a holistic paradigm for leadership as not only is it transformative and ethical, but also engages followers in workplace spirituality. [17]
American evangelicalism maintains that the Bible is the text that supports notions of Christian manliness, and ultimately, the life and example of Jesus Christ. Appeals to Pauline texts are frequent, and models of servant-leadership and complementarianism feature in sermons and literature.
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. In the Gospel of Luke 22:24–27, Jesus expounds on the import of serving:
These beliefs emphasize that as the willing Lamb of God, Jesus chose to suffer in Calvary as a sign of his full obedience to the will of his Father, as an "agent and servant of God". [6] [7] Christians view Jesus as a role model, whose God-focused life believers are encouraged to imitate.
Accordingly, Jesus Christ never used the messenger formula, which linked the prophet's words to God in the prophetic phrase Thus says the Lord. [11] The Bible refers about the prophetic nature of Christ in the following verses, among others: John 17:4 – "I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." [12]
A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the ...
These include models of the Church as institution, as mystical communion, as sacrament, as herald, and as servant. [9] The ecclesiological model of Church as an institution holds that the Catholic Church alone is the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church", and is the only Church of divine and apostolic origin led by the Pope.
Members of the Servants take promises to the Evangelical Counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, [8] as do most Catholic religious orders and communities. A special focus is given to evangelical poverty, with each member of the community only having 2 or 3 sets of clothes, the community abstaining from meat on Wednesdays and only consuming bread and water on Fridays, and each Servant ...