Wednesday, October 14, 2009
I found it really interesting when examining Jesus' ministry in our group how easy it was to build a list in regards to many of the categories, especially that of community/service but when it came to building a list for organization/leadership there was a bit of a challenge after unanimously stating "servant leadership". It seems this was true with the rest of the class as well for when we were all sharing, the answers weren't coming as quickly. We all understand that servant leadership is vital but after that my question is whether there even is value to establishing structure. Or should we, who demand such things, understand that we're actually stifling the Spirit to do his work? So being a person who highly values structure and systems within an organization or group, I really wonder how much of Jesus' ministry valued the idea of this? Where's the balance between letting things happen organically versus planning and establishing structure? Perhaps those of us that value structure need to let loose a bit and allow the "chaos" that sometimes comes with off-the-cuff ministry because it didn't seem like Jesus was very interested in much besides exemplifying servant leadership.
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