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<channel><title><![CDATA[South Asian Connection - Portal for South Asian Christians - Comments for blog: Leadership – What Is Its Foremost Characteristic?]]></title><link>http://www.southasianconnection.com</link><description /><language>en-us</language><copyright><![CDATA[http://www.southasianconnection.com]]></copyright><generator>N/A</generator><webMaster>info@southasianconnection.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:22:49 MDT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #1]]></title><link>http://www.southasianconnection.com/blogs/1739/Leadership--What-Is-Its-Foremost-Characteristic.html#Comment7499</link><description><![CDATA[In the ministry, we have blindly borrowed many secular ideas and
simply did a gold filling job, and display the person as divinely called
leader.    There are hundreds of seminars about leadersip, but hardly
we hear about "discipleship" seminars.

When and where we mould ourselves  to be  true disciples, then automoatically we will  be elevated as leaders.     How to define the 
controlling capacity of our grandchildren in our lives?   When they tell
us to do something, we simply do for them without asking them the
second question.    We obey the three year child as a great leader!

The spiritual truth what Jesus has taught us to be like "children" is 
hidden from the modern theological interpretation of " leadership
in the ministry".   

Personally speaking, I am a terribly poor organizer and leader.
Always, I have a tendency to take the back seat in many things
related to the issue of leadership.  But, I have found another
mystery of life;  when I was put into critical and strange situations of life with total strangers,  those people simply did 
whatever I asked them to do.  The numbr of friends I have in life from different nationalties and various profession are too many to count.   And I
question that mystery of life, because they all came across my life
as total strangers to help me in dire needs of life.   Some way,
I had command over them at that point in life, like the grandchild's
command over the grandparents.    

John 13:13 "  You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so
I am".   Teacher and Lord; they are not second to none in their
positions of life, so they are supreme leaders.

"Verses 14-15, If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your
feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet".   "For if I have
given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you".

The leadership mania has gone too far, and they have simply failed
to read these portions from the Bible.    

Richard Nxon said " the greatness of a person depends upon his/her meekness".    People who are trying to jump into leadership without
having the greatness to fill that post will end up in tragedy: and
the greatest criterion is to be humble and meek.  

The world leaders like President Ronald Reagon bowed their heads
in front of a simple and physically small human being.  She commanded great respect and leadership qualities in her organization, in the nation and around the world.   She never had
been to any  school of higher learning to study "how to be a leader".
But Mother Teresa got the instructions straight from the Lord Jesus
Christ.    Those people, who are called to be leaders in the ministry
must learn from, at first from our Lord Jesus Christ, then from other
great people like Mother Teresa.    Let us keep away the "worldly" wisdom of "leadership", because our area is a totally different 
kingdom.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by A.S.Mathew at 11:55 am, Sun 26th Sep 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (A.S.Mathew)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:55:40 MDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.southasianconnection.com/blogs/1739/Leadership--What-Is-Its-Foremost-Characteristic.html#Comment7499</guid></item></channel></rss>