IN THIS STEP

What do you think of when you hear the word leadership? We all experience leadership in a variety of situations, not only at work but in our leisure activities, like the football coach, the conductor of choir or orchestra, and at church, in persons of the clergy and churchwardens.

in Step 4 we begin to look directly at leadership. What is it and how is it to be exercised? We begin with the example of Jesus. What did he have to say about leadership? His answer subverts the way much of the world thinks about leadership. Jesus shows that the leader is not the one who seeks status and privilege, but the one who serves, as he modelled when he washed his disciples’ feet.