Leadership

I agree that leadership is a great privilege and responsibility. I also think that God holds those who are leaders to a higher account, responsible in some sense to give a reckoning to God at the final judgment. 

I think often times in work, we hear stories of bad leaders who slavishly force their employees to do all the work but then take all the credit. While I don’t think it should be taken to that extreme, I do think that leaders deserve more credit for the work that they do and the responsibility they bear than often times we give them credit for. Oftentimes, these leader/managers are the only ones able to see the forest from the trees and make tough decisions that no one party will be happy with, but must be done. 

To bring it back to the church context, we are all leaders in some regard. Some of us more than others. For myself, I played a more formal role as a coordinator in undergrad but even now, there’s a measure of leadership as part of the evangelism servants and even being a YA with respect to those younger.

As God has called us to build up one another, for this is His Church, His body, His bride, do I consider what sort of privilege I bear in seeing my brothers (and I guess sisters), built up? Or am I skirting my responsibility and so will I be accountable for my laziness and lack of love when I come before God at the last day? 

Lord, you have given me so much, though oftentimes I feel like it is so little. But you have shown how you take the 5 loaves and 2 fish and multiply it thousandfold, so would you take my talent and minas to build up Your body, so that we may all learn to glorify you more.