This weekend we are having our Summer Leaders Retreat. This retreat consists of the student leaders for our Summer Training Project as well as all the students that are apart of our Cross Cultural Project. One of our goals this weekend it to help students understand what true leadership is.
The world around us gives us many images of what it means to lead, many of them being false. One of these lies about leadership is that leaders should be served. Those of position are seen as more important and thus feel entitled to many things, including the service of those they lead. Jesus however, completely flips this perspective upside-down. In Mark 10:45 Jesus says that He did not come to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for others. This is the image of leadership Jesus gives us. Leaders often have many gifts, but these gifts are to be used to serve, not to be served. As we have our Leaders Retreat this weekend, we pray that our student leaders would have this mindset of Christ: to serve.
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