UNDERSTANDING SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Jewish Philosopher and Rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth is the first to have asserted and literally demonstrated the servant leadership model. Throughout His life and ministry, Jesus demonstrated that true leaders are servants of others and slaves to their Divine purposes. Servant leaders live with a set of characteristics that make them radically different from all other types of leaders. Such characteristics include, Agapao love, humility, altruism, Vision, Trust, Empowerment and service. The greatest demonstration of servant leadership is the giving of one’s life. This is the ultimate application of that theory and we see it perfectly illustrated by the theory’s first and main proponent-Jesus Christ of Nazareth. In effect, servant leaders lay down their life or their followers.