"It's All About the Service"

“I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?” 2 Corinthians 12:15

Perhaps you have a couple of friends like this. You go out to coffee, talk, laugh and share stories. Then, getting up to leave, he reaches for the bill without allowing me even a courteous attempt at paying it myself. Then, a few days later I visit another friend for lunch. We talk about mutual interests, catch up on old times and tease the entire wait staff. Without a moment’s thought she sweeps up the check with sleight-of-hand dexterity. I didn’t have a chance. Or, maybe we are going to a movie and the same friend is impatiently keeping his place in line ahead of me. Of course, I understand why once we are at the ticket booth and he is saying, “Two, please.”

Leading Like Jesus

“Instead, {God’s steward} must be hospitable, in love with what is good, sensible, fair, of holy life; self-controlled.” Titus 1:8

This single verse is in no way a complete description of the desirable traits for Christian leadership. But they are telling. I do not think there is a single one of these six attributes anyone would disagree with. We might even come up with some of them on our own, apart from reading what Paul wrote to Titus.