Servant leadership

So I missed a blog a few weeks ago about Servant Leadership. The speaker emphasized the importance of doing things not for yourself serving others to be a good servant leader. Leadership shouldn't just be about making yourself look good or acquiring more skills and experience to put on a resume, but actually learning to love those you are leading.

I have a scriptural application that's kind of different for this. It made me think of in Matthew 6:16-18 when Jesus is teaching the Sermon on the Mount and says not to be like the hypocritices who "disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast... they have their reward." He said that we should fast secretly to our Father in Heaven. I thought this was like servant leadership because if we just do things to appear as a great leader or for our own benefit, we may as well not be doing them. But if we actually serve those around us and do them because we love them, than we can make a big difference in other peoples' lives, and that's really what matters.

Thanks for everything this semester, Tommy. The class was wonderful and I really did learn a lot about becoming a better leader and person. You were a fantastic TA :)