Editorial
Joel Lawrence
“You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you…” (Mark 10:42-43)
This familiar passage has been proclaimed in just about every leadership course in every seminary in the United States. It is a foundational text in the field of “servant leadership.” Pastors across the world know this verse and know how different our calling is to lead than the calling of the gentiles. So many of us desire to live out the “not so with you” by which Jesus shapes his followers’ vision of what it means for us to be pastors in His Church. Any yet, so often, it is so with us. Christian leadership is like the Gentiles, becoming a lording-over leadership that leaves a trail of pain and trauma in its wake.
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