Christians follow a servant king, one who came not to be served but to serve (Mark 10:45). The defining symbol of this sort of leadership is a towel. Yet servant leadership is often misunderstood. For Christians it doesn’t mean serving people, but serving God and through our service of God serving people; a subtle, but significant difference.
Serve people and we end up becoming a doormat, dutifully doing whatever they think best. Serve God and then we become a doorway, through which we enable people to walk into the priorities of the king and the purposes of the kingdom. Servant leaders serve God first, which means there will be times when we don’t do what people ask, when we say no (see Matthew 20:20-28). Such leadership is often difficult.
Not wishing to claim something as mine that isn't, here's where it's from: www.cpas.org/leadon
I notice there's two words, servant and leadership. The first sometimes tries to outweigh the other. But leadership is the object here, whilst serving is simply the style that is adopted. Ultimately it's about leading someone somewhere & you can't do that if they're calling all the shots.
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