Category: Christian Leadership

What Can You Learn from The Book on Leadership?

Book on Leadership

In my last post, we explored Jesus: The Ultimate Servant Leader. What we learn from the apostle Paul is the same thing Jesus taught: that character—not style, not technique, not methodology, but character—is the true biblical test of great leadership.

If we who are shooting for the stars use Biblical principles of leadership, we will be the trend-setters for secular, corporate, and political leadership…rather than thoughtlessly borrowing from the world whatever seems to “work.”

In 2006, best-selling author, pastor, and teacher John MacArthur wrote The Book on Leadership. Based on the writings of one of the most effective spiritual leaders of all time―the apostle Paul―MacArthur presents the “26 Characteristics of a True Leader.”

As its summary states, whether you are a business leader, civic leader, church leader, parent, teacher, or student, the life of Paul will empower you to unleash your own capacity for leadership.

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Jesus Christ: The Ultimate Servant Leader

Weeks 37 & 38 of the NIV Leadership Bible focus on the importance of relationships, providing multiple passages about Servant Leadership.

Jesus went to great lengths to earn the title “Servant.” Isaiah prophesied that Jesus—God’s own Son—would be the “suffering servant” (Isaiah 53). And Jesus lived his life as the definitive statement about service as a path to greatness. What’s more, Paul identified Jesus as the ultimate example of servant leadership. He told the Philippian church that “Christ Jesus…being in the very nature of God…made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:5-7).

Jesus insisted that his followers lead by serving. No one can argue with his command because he modeled the kind of service he was advocating. And he certainly models greatness. Jesus is the ultimate servant leader.

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