In a minimum of 850 ?words demonstrate comprehension of man-centered (contemporary/worldly) and Christ-centered (biblical) servant leadership as it relates to leadership assumptions and met

Well, hello, My name is Caleb Fisher and at the time of this recording, I am the subject matter expert for busy 50 to and in this first presentation, I'm just going to provide kind of a biblical framework for servant leadership. You're going to get a lot of valuable information this course, just about various perspectives on serving leadership. You're going to read a lot from Greenleaf on that topic. And I think you'll find pretty quickly that Greenleaf, though he would borrow from Christian ideas. He wouldn't be explicitly a Christian thinker. And just in general, my background isn't, isn't leadership. And having studied this topic a lot, what I have found with leadership theorist and generals that they're very infatuated with the ideas of leadership. Being a good serve and empowering others. It almost becomes an end unto itself. It almost becomes a cult of leadership, which I feel is not really Christ centered. So if we're really going to have a Christ centered perspective on leadership, we need to acknowledge that to be a Christian is not just doing the right things. It's acknowledging that we need a Savior. Jesus Christ are resurrected, Lord and Savior to come and change our hearts and to make life more meaningful for us and to enable us to love our neighbor. Part of that. Even among Christian circles, this is sometimes an uncomfortable topic. To really deal with. A part of that is, requires the acknowledgment of sinful attitudes. Sometimes we Christians think that even once we become a Christian, we really don't need to confess sin. We don't need to acknowledge bad attitudes and arrogance and just being closed-minded and prideful. But I think there's freedom. Jesus says in the Gospels that he who sins is a slave to sin. And He came to give us freedom from sin. But part of that requires an acknowledgment. Where do we get grumpy with employees? Where do we allow pride and selfishness to keep us from serving others and, and being the type of Christian that the Lord would have us be in the, in the workplace environment and in the church place and with friends and family and so forth. Such a really heavy Christian perspective on servant leadership, we need to acknowledge the source of Christian, which is Jesus Christ. We need to make him our Lord and Savior. Now, having said that, I think it's going to be helpful to furthermore provide a more biblical historical contexts for servant leader. Leadership. In my studies of leadership theory in general, I would say that servant leadership is one piece the puzzle of effective leadership. And I'd like to introduce the biblical idea of covenant as a kind of a guiding framework for really under Shane, what servant leadership is all about and how it can work in organizational contexts. Now, if you've had busy 500, which is organizational behavior, you may have heard some of my lectures on covenant. And you might be thinking, oh, here we go again. Well, I think it's a great idea. And so I'm going to emphasize it here as well. Covenant in scripture, it's almost exclusively a biblical idea. And it has this connotation of not just a contractual agreement. It's. About a relationship. And we see this first, the God of the universe coming and an honoring us here, mere mortals and giving us the opportunity to choose to be in a relationship with him. And then that idea from the Old Testament, which really is the Old Covenant, was reaffirmed through Jesus Christ in the New Covenant. And so with that, what happens when people covenant with one another? What happens when you understand, as Jesus said, Well, your neighbor is anyone you come into contact and you should go the extra mile like the Good Samaritan did to care for that person. What does that mean for servant leadership? Well, I think there's some, some ideas that come into place that will help you in an organizational context. One, the notion of mutual accountability. It's this understanding that we're all in this together and that we all need a Savior. We've all got that adds heat from time to time. We've got blind spots where we need help to look at the big picture. So mutual accountability keeps you whether you're the leader, the employee, the coworker. It make sure that you're open to constructive criticism and to ideas from the people around you. Another idea is this idea of active dialogue, kind of big picture thinking where everybody is thinking about what is good for the organization. Everybody's thinking what is the best possible solution. And that doesn't mean that if, if you're the leader that you don't get to listen to what other people are saying. That means you have to in fact, be open to what your employees are saying. It also means that if you're in a management position, you have to make time to engage your employees to communicate with them the things that are going on in the company to share, the things that they need to know about and just give them the big picture. Now if you're in any type of mid-level management position, you know that there's a gazillion e-mails chance every day. There's so much to, to, to handle. So the idea of making time to really honor people around you and to really make sure that they're cared for it, you're going to have to make a commitment. You have to make a change in your schedule, truly accommodate that. I think one of the point that, that a covenantal perspective will help us with this idea of decentralization or centralization where you empower employees. Here's a question you need to be asking yourself. If we're all in this together, if we're all in a covenantal relationship with one another, then is it really about one person having all the power and a, and all the final say or is it a collaborative partnership? This idea of collaboration, which you've probably heard in many different contexts, is really straight from scripture. And so the question you to ask yourself is, are you making time to delegate? Are you making time to empower those employees around you? Are you making time to come alongside of them and really make sure that they have the resources they need to succeed and to grow. The idea of covenant is a very powerful one, not just because it's rooted in Scripture, but also because there is an historical track record for covenant, which I find very exciting and very impressive. And one of the reasons I do is because within the study of leadership, you have all these fads. Everyone's got a book out or a blog on, on their latest and greatest leadership FAD. And just ASAM and set in the Book of Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun. So I bring to you the covenantal idea because it's a time-tested one. Not only do we see it working in the Old Testament, the New Testament, but in fact, covenantal principles influenced the Middle Ages and particularly the Reformation. When reformers began to get back into the scripture and really study it, they understood, they begin to understand with this idea of covenant was all about. They understood the ideas of servant leadership and in mutual accountability and separation of power. Imagine rule by consent. Imagine how that affected the political landscape where they were challenging not only the Catholic Church, but also the political rulers. Because at the time of the Reformation, the Catholic Church and the political rulers were often in cahoots with one another. And so for the reformers to say I have the right to serve God according to how I interpret scripture. That was not just a religious statement, that was a political one. Now consider then, when there is persecution during the Reformation, where did all these reformers go? Where did many of them go? The French Huguenots, the Anabaptists, the, the Calvinists are they went, they went to the New World, they went to America, and they brought their covenantal ideas with them. And those covenants will ideas. We're not just for Church Life that became the basis for, for civil government. In fact, the Latin word for covenant is fetus FED IS. Now if you're a government buff, what does that remind you of? It should remind you of the word federalism. And so the Latin word for covenant is the very foundation for what we have in America in terms of our political system, which includes separation of power, rule by consent, the very notion of federalism comes with the understanding that no one should have all the power. And so we have this history and it's been documented. Donald less out of the University of Houston did a very interesting study where he found that church covenants in the early colonial era became the basis for state governments. Which then that this all the state constitutions became kind of a model for our American Constitution. And furthermore, we know from this time period that the one source of the fine fathers quoted during the founding era when they were debating, should we break away from Great Britain and what would our constitution look like? We know what the one source that quote The most Deuteronomy, which in essence is the constitution for the Old Testament covenant. So I'm giving you an idea from scripture that is not just some obscure theological doctrine, it's one that has stood the test of time. And I believe that as you're watching this and as you're discussing these concepts with your classmates, I believe you're going to find some biblical truths that are going to really set you free. And Jesus says, If you know my truth and my disciples, and I think there's a lot of freedom here to this idea. And I think with the covenants perspective, and more importantly, a Christ centered perspective on servant leadership. I think we're going to be lot more successful, truly serving others. Thank you.

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Well, hello, Welcome to the second servant leadership video presentation. Let me just give you, there's 3D of these videos. Let me give you kind of a connection between them and among them. The first one we just obviously disgusted biblical foundation. And certainly that foundation is Jesus Christ and his ability to save us and change our lives and to free us from sin. This presentation is going to talk about some of the personal obstacles and application points of servant leadership that we have in our daily lives. The third video, which I'm especially excited about, is going to really try to apply a servant leadership to actual business functions in a real life business company, which I think is very important because sometimes the studies of servant leadership are so syrupy that and kinda out of touch with the real-world that there's really no benefit. So as relates to the third video of this one as well, I really want to get to kind of some of the, the key challenges to being a servant leader in our everyday lives and our everyday professional lives. We can all get excited about empowering people in later life down for them until it comes time to actually do it. And a lot of times I've found that the people that really need to be served or the people sometimes we really don't want to make the time to serve and we don't have compassion on them like Jesus did with the multitude. So let's just, let's start with some basic challenges to servant leadership. I think one is the need for recognition. And this need not be a sense of pride. Like I want people to worship me and really put me on a pedestal. I think there's a more subtle idol of the heart about recognition that pertains to. I just want to know that what I'm doing is going to make a difference. I want to know that my work is accomplishing something meaningful. That should be, by all accounts, a wonderful attitude where it can become an idol is where we begin to identify ourselves with our career and the measurable impacts that we're having on the job that in turn can cause us to be so much workaholics that we don't have time for people. Now biblically, we should know that really doing something meaningful for the Lord is, is that which is eternal and what is eternal people? The word of God and God Himself, those are the things you should be focusing on. So really if we want to make time for that, which is important that we have to look at from an internal perspective. I think another challenge is just being, like I said, a workaholic where we take on so many things. So we fail to, to realize that, that if we don't make time for people just in the business of life, we began to cut out church life. We began to cut out knowing who our neighbors are, that we fail in truly being servant leaders and, and so forth. Another challenge on the job is a little bit of myopia, departmental myopia. It's, it's even on a more fundamental issue of I'm smart and everybody else is an idiot. So we tend to have that attitude, but for God's grace. And so all we see is our perspective. And we're able to articulate our perspective pretty well. So it makes sense to us. So when somebody does something that doesn't jive with our interpretation of reality, we tend to think are there dominant of touch with reality. You take that to the workplace and you're hanging out with your, your team and your department. And you want to know why is this department doing whatever it is they're doing, that doesn't make sense to us. And we really mean while they're doing the same thing, they're different, why is that department doing the things that they're doing doesn't make sense to us. And everybody's got their own little myopic perspective. And then communication breaks down and we forget to care for one another as an organization, we forget to come across those departmental barriers and acknowledge that, hey, we're all in this together, that covenantal perspective. And I think that's very important to realize how that arrogance will but really destroy organizational harmony and a healthy culture. And it'll really make it difficult for departments to work with one another. It takes time and in the scope of a busy day to make time to communicate with other departments, to communicate with employees. This same attitude can be seen in the relationship between the leadership team and the employees in the trenches. Leaders see the big picture. They know all the big picture constraints, the, the, the finances, the budget, the marketing challenges, what's going on with competitors? Meanwhile, employees who don't know all of these things, they do know the details of their job. They sometimes have a better understanding of product defects and strengths and services that need to be improved because they interact with customers. And furthermore, they're more familiar with their own, with their own processes in their own routines more so than, than liters would be. So here's how that arrogance, which is just a part of being a human unless we give our lives the Lord here, so that arrogance destroys servant leadership in an organizational context. But the leaders see resistance from the employees and they say, Why are those stupid employs, disobeying, just do what you're supposed to do and everything will be fine. You don't see the big picture we do. Meanwhile, the employee say it, what was, what were the leaders thinking when they made this rule or this created this initiative? That's totally messes with what we've gotta get accomplish in this context. And so then you've got this back biting going back and forth. Obviously, that is not servant leadership. And so both sides need to serve one another. And that goes back to that covenantal idea of mutual accountability. There needs to be communication leaders. If you're going to be a servant leader, you need to make time to ask questions of your employees. You need to make time to make sure they understand why you're doing the things you're doing. And if you're the employee in the trenches, you need to do the same thing. Put yourself in the leaderships shoes. Assume that they're not idiots. They assume that they've got good reasons for what they're doing. That takes humility. Now, I think there are some biblical attitudes that can help us kind of deal with some of these impediments to servant leadership. I think one is what I would call the Sabbath principle from scripture. In scripture, in the Old Testament, God told the Israelites, you can't work on Sunday on the Sabbath wasn't Sunday was Saturday. Every seventh year. You have to let your fields lie fallow. You can't work them. Imagine if you're a farmer to not work when it's a nice day to work. Imagine not working every seventh year. Sure, That sounds good If you think, well, I have your vacation, but not when you're the one responsible for providing food for your family. In the Lord is basically asking us through the Sabbath principle, to trust him, to trust that he'll meet our needs. And I think as we do everything we can to improve ourselves. You know, you're obviously in a graduate program because you have ambition and goals and you want to do something with your life and you want to live your life meaningfully and accomplished great things. And we want you to be champions for Christ. And all of that is wonderful. But if it's not faith motivated, if it, if it's not the process of holding everything we do with an open hand, then we're really not going to be servant leaders because the work that we're doing becomes an end unto itself. It takes faith to rest. It takes faith to, to not create a culture and atmosphere of workaholism on the job. If you're the leader that is motivated by fear, like a farmer that, oh, I've got to keep working because I don't know when the bad weather's coming versus trust in the Lord. If you have that attitude on the job, your employees will have it. There'll be motivated by fear. And you've been in trouble with the manager and the manager essentially cracking the whip and and asked you to conform. And the reason they're doing that is probably because they're feeling the pressure from their, their leadership team. And so the sphere kind of trickles down from the top to the bottom. Are you going to be part of that? Are you going to trust the Lord and trust it? He'll give you the grace to get done what you need to get done that day. As a younger man, I would often pray Lord, help me to get done all the things that I want to get done. And I was surprised that very rarely did I. I want to get done everything I wanted to. And at first I thought my arrogance, The Lord is not answering my prayers. But then once I remembered, you know, the Lord loves me more than I love myself. I guess I can trust him. He is going to allow me to get done everything I need to get done today. And if I have that attitude, then I can trust him with with my day. What that has done for me is that it does give me a freedom to truly care for people. When someone walks into my office, It's very easy for me to just kinda talk with them. And I'm really doing email because I hate e-mail. I just want to get it done and removed from my life forever for sure that'll never happen. Sure you can relate. And I just kinda wanna give them one look while I'm typing. But I really want to just focus on my typing in. But because as I'm learning to trust the Lord more, I'm learning to realize, Okay, The Lord synthase person across my path. And I'm going to make time for this person and the law is going to give me the grace to get done. Exactly. And only what I need to get done that day. That same attitude has kept me from taking up responsibility that sound like a good idea. And they are, but is it a god idea? And I've, and I'm learning to hold those things with an open hand to trust the Lord. Lord, whatever you want me to do, I'll do whatever you don't want me do. I won't do. I trust that my meaning my identification is found in you and not on myself. So guys, I hope that this is a challenging but a loving admonition for you. You've gotta feel the encouragement from the Lord that he loves you. He's pursuing you. Even through this course. I think that being a servant leader truly is fluorine because it keeps us from being emotionally attached to, to things that shouldn't be idols in their lives. So in the end, it always comes back to Jesus Christ is the Lord of our lives, or is he a domesticated God that we can command to perform tricks for us? It's either one or, ordaining every event of everyday of our lives. And the interruptions that come in the form of people that need help and to be cared for. Is he the author of that or are we in control of our day? Guys? I think there's one other thing I want to point out. Wrap this up. If we try to be in control. One, we're going to fail because we're never in control. That's an illusion. Reader, a slave to center were a servant to Jesus Christ. Because we fail and because we want to be in control, that failure is a constant reminder to us, which causes fear. And that fear causes anger and we're always going to be stressed out. If you're dealing with stress in a job, could it be that you're not fully giving that to the Lord? And when that's not happening, it's hard to love and care for others. Thank you for your time.

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