Much has been said and written about leadership in the church in the past several years. Godly leadership is an outworking of the virtue of meekness.

Our responsibility should be to learn to serve rather than to emulate the pompous gentile leaders who love to domineer over their subjects.

For those aspiring to leadership in God's Kingdom, greatness comes from humbly serving others, not arrogantly ruling over them like gentile rulers.

Jesus Christ did not teach the pyramid model of leadership, where successive levels of leaders provide direction to those in the lesser ranks. He served.

Our faithfulness has an effect on our offspring. Could it be that God chose Bezalel to build the Tabernacle because of Hur's loyalty to Him?

These two parables are linked because they are the answers to the disciples' question, 'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?'

Many consider footwashing at Passover to be a mere ritual to remind us to serve one another. But it teaches another godly attribute: forgiveness.

Christ's followers should be caring shepherds, invested in the success of the flock they serve, cheering them on and rallying them to perform at their best.

In John 13, when our Savior washed His disciples' feet, He taught them that He was willing to accept the task designated to the lowest of the servants.

The greatest, according to Jesus Christ, can be determined by the one who serves the most with an attitude of humility, generosity, and other-centeredness.

Christ does not want His staff to exercise Gentile patterns of tyrannical, top-down leadership, but to humbly serve people without striving for greatness.

The New Covenant, wherein God writes His law on the heart and gives His Spirit, empowers God's people to obey without the need for external control.

Jesus proved that one cannot become a leader through political intrigue, but by assuming the position of a humble servant. God sets Himself against the proud.

The authority in the ministry is a 'staff position,' given by God, as a gift for equipping the saints for service and for edifying the body of Christ.

The unity of God's church does not derive from organizational expertise, the conformity of ecumenism, or the tolerance for evil, but from the family model.

If a people turn from righteousness, a natural consequence is greater human oversight in one form or another. This is seen in the world and the church.

Only those who are governable will be allowed to govern with God. No government will work without each individual submitting in his area of responsibility.

Paradoxically, when we yield to God's sovereignty, He wants to cede control over to us, teaching us to develop self-control as an ingrained habit.

Although selfless service is not valued today, it is at the core of God's character and a trait we must emulate to go to a higher level of Christian living.

The ministry's authority consists of teaching, edifying, and equipping the members for sainthood, but not to wield dictatorial power over their lives.

Though the American mindset does not feel inclined to serve, outgoing service to others yields the maximum joy and fulfillment one can possibly attain.

People resist God because of their pride, but pride can be neutralized by humility, a character trait that allows a person to submit to God.

We currently have no preparation for our future roles as kings and priests, but God desires to fill thousands of leadership positions in the Millennium.