{"id":7171,"date":"2015-12-05T01:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T09:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2015-12-05T01:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T09:15:20","slug":"leadership-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/12\/05\/leadership-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to Jesus and asked, \u201cTeacher, will you do us a favor?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tJesus asked them what they wanted, and they answered, \u201cWhen you come into your glory, please let one of us sit at your right side and the other at your left.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tJesus told them, \u201cYou don\u2019t really know what you\u2019re asking! Are you able to drink from the cup that I must soon drink from or be baptized as I must be baptized?\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\u201cYes, we are!\u201d James and John answered. <\/p>\n

\tThen Jesus replied, \u201cYou certainly will drink from the cup from which I must drink. And you will be baptized just as I must! But it isn\u2019t for me to say who will sit at my right side and at my left. That is for God to decide.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tWhen the ten other disciples heard this, they were angry with James and John. But Jesus called the disciples together and said: <\/p>\n

\tYou know that those foreigners who call themselves kings like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over the people they rule. But don\u2019t act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others. And if you want to be first, you must be everyone\u2019s slave. The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people. (Mark 10:35-45)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tThe path to true leadership is not where most expect to find it. Jesus challenged his disciple\u2019s notions about the order of things. <\/p>\n

\tThe people of Jesus\u2019 day expected the Messiah to overthrow the Roman government and re-establish the Davidic monarchy, making Israel the center of a new empire. Thus, the disciples jockeyed for position in the future government and two of them, the brothers James and John, attempted to get the plum posts.<\/p>\n

\tJesus gave them a job interview, but then pointed out that he wasn\u2019t the one to make the final decision on positions in the coming kingdom. When the other disciples found out what the brothers had done, they were furious. Jesus then used the situation to explain how much they had all misunderstood about the nature of what Jesus was doing on Earth.<\/p>\n

\tHis explanation that humility was the path to greatness, and that even Jesus had come to serve, rather than be boss, startled his disciples. The implications of Jesus\u2019 words challenged their notions of how husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and slaves, and governors and governed, related to one another.<\/p>\n

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