Servant Leadership
The notion of leadership recently came up in discussion and the question was asked: What qualities make for a good leader?
If you go into a secular bookshop today you will find a large number of books which attempt to explain what it is you have to do in order to become a great leader.
In recent years, Christian bookshop shelves too have started to be filled with an increasingly large number of books which try to turn their readers into leaders by explaining the “eight key leadership principles” or the “five simple steps”, etc.
Like Father, Like Son…
The first passage of Scripture which comes to my mind when someone mentions to me the word “leadership” is from the Old Testament book of 1st Kings. In this passage, King Solomon has just died and his son Rehoboam has ascended to the Throne of David.