Have you been in a group where
everybody wanted to be a leader? Everybody wanted to lead? Everybody wanted to
be the boss, the big man, the one who calls the shot? If not, congratulations!
You are in a perfect world! Lol…
Anyway, I attended a church
last Sunday and the pastor explained how leadership is such an overrated word
nowadays. In school, they teach you how to be a leader. At work, they encourage
everybody to have a leader in each team. In sports, somebody has to be the team
captain or the leader. And even at church, they teach you how to be a leader. I
have read books about leadership and I believe this is also the reason why I am
in my position right now. But I also believe that being a Christian, we don’t
need to be a leader. We just need to be a follower. 1 Corinthians 11:1 and
Matthew 16:24 states that we need to be follower of Christ. It didn’t say we
need to be a leader for Christ. It just clearly states to follow Him. The
ultimate leader, boss, manager, team captain in our lives should be Jesus
Christ and we need to follow him.
In order for a basketball team
to win, there is a coach, team captain and several different positions such as
center, forward and point guards. Not everybody can be a coach and a player at
the same time (except for Jaworski or Pacquiao), nobody can play all the
positions. Guess what, somebody has to learn how to follow the coach or team
captain. What is the key word there? Follow…
Don’t get me wrong here, being
a leader is good. But when it comes to the church, I believe we need to be
followers. I myself have been a leader at church and at work. But most of the
time, I have lead the people in the wrong direction. Jesus didn’t recruit
leaders in His ministry, He recruited followers. This culture that we have right
now has created too much leadership obsession. Everybody just wants to be the
leader and the voice of their team.
So if you are a leader right
now, I suggest that you throw away all your leadership manuals, books and
titles. The day has come for us to be a better followers.
Follow my example, as I
follow the example of Christ – 1 Corinthians 11:1
Then Jesus told his
disciples, “if any would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his
cross and follow me – Matthew 16:24
