Leadership – A New Perspective

Leadership to me is more of a responsibility rather than a high position or some sort of priviledge to be heading something.

For me… I’ve never been really declared a LEADER.. though I’m in Bible School, a pastor’s kid, someone people all know in the church but still I am not given position on a silver spoon. Till now i’m am just serving in whatever given to me.. Nothing big or significant maybe not even leading people or a given a group of people to lead…

I’m not like some people whom their names will always go up the list when it comes to leadership positions. I may not even be officially selected or officially trained to be a “leader-to-be”.

Plain and simple.. I’m just being trained sometimes with no promises of any position from anywhere. I’m just trained because of what I know as the call to be His servant. Ask me if i do get envious or jealous of people whose names just fly up the list when it comes to being a leader or people who come into Bible school with already a goal to be trained and go back and lead in some specific department or ministry???  Yes sometime i honestly do get discouraged and i ask God where am i heading to. Why isn’t there a specific goal prepared for me or a specific direction to where i’m heading?

Somehow.. after the Global Leadership Summit, one thing for me is clear. The call is clear..the adventure is clear.

The road may not be clear, opportunities and open doors may not come easy and swift, my name may not always be up the leadership list, neither will i always be given the chance to lead or even be known as a leader, I may feel inadequate being in a conference of all leaders and people who leads in someway.

But I was still encouraged that is the adventure of following God and His plan that should be my focus. It may never be glamorous or recognized in my entire lifetime but I want to be a leader to everyone i meet. When i say leader i mean – EXAMPLE. i want to reflect exemplary values. I dont have to wait to be a leader of a great ministry or a leader of a youth group to start learning leadership skills. If i can be a leader to everyone I meet by being a godly example; I count that all joy

Thank God for a new perspective of LEADERSHIP!!

You Call that Genuine??

Oh well, something turn up this week in church.. and yeah I’m worn out by this phrase “I did it genuinely but…..” Okay they did it genuinely and then things turned sour and all they do is leave the whole heap of mess they created out of their so called ”genuineness” for others to clean up… and the most sickening part is still they go around innocently saying, “I did it genuinely”.

Yeah right!! This obviously shows of one’s immaturity more than genuineness. Immature because you wanted to try to handle things on your on without seeking advise. Then as you go ahead with your plans, you had no common sense and discernment to discern what is really going on and that it is just not the right thing for you to continue with your plans. Eventually things turned sour. Still you are not willing to give up, you just had to proove you know something. So you went on trying to fix things entirely on your own again without wanting to seek advise. Finally when everything backfire, you come running back to the nest like some innocent chick crying,”but but.. i did it genuinely”. Then hide behind, waiting and watching for someone to clear the mess you created.

Why can’t Christians, I’m not talking about newborn believers but I’m talking about 6-7 year old christians, who seems to be those really devoted ones, can obliviously act so immaturely after all these years of knowing what the Bible is talking about. Maybe with their little knowledge of the Word of God, they just think they know it all and confidently think they can lead a stray sheep back to the foe all by themselves. No matter how much knowledge we have, we can never ever say “I know enough to act on my own”. I’ve known of pastors, who may be holding Masters or PhDs in theology, but still are as humble as any other lay-Christians; living life and guiding their churches in total dependance of the Almighty One who is the HEAD of the CHURCH.

I just feel that in this modern age, people now do not just gain knowledge to be able to serve but rather knowledge is now snapped up to elevate oneself. Jesus, even with his exceedingly vast knowledge of everything, He came not to be elevated but rather, He came to stoop low and wash the feet of sinners. He came to be stripped bare and branded as a criminal. He came to give up everything He had all for a bunch of greedy, cruel, self-centered, sinful people who never deserved Him.

I guess when we say we are Christians, we better be Christians who don’t just have knowledge all clogged up in our brains but never ooze out the aroma of Christ. We should be Christians who conciously know the heart of the Gospel that we believe in. The heart of the Gospel is not thick books of Theologies but the heart of the Gospel is all about God who became man, saved us even when we do not deserve it. When the heart of the Gospel is imprinted deep in our hearts, we will find ourselves living conciously everyday not for ourselves. The great impact of a selfless man hung out for us, will cause us to crucify selfishness and reach out to others.

Spirituality is not an excuse for blind genuineness. I would never tolerate anyone who simply say because they are spiritual, everything they do is genuine whether is is right or wrong, it is just simply genuineness. I would just simply think they are dumb and neither spiritual nor genuine. Genuineness is not something we can make it happen. Genuineness is a reflection that our selfishness has been crucified. In what we so call “blind genuiness”, all that is crucified is common sense and discernment. And this people end up most of the time looking more spiritually dumb rather than spiritual.

Sad to say, there are many who still will not agree to this or worst ignorant to this.

However upsetting or frustrating this can be, all we can do is pray that the body of Christ will look again into their hearts again and rethink what actually is the heart of the Gospel.