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Here are a couple more tensions in Servant Leadership that John Ortberg mentions. Here is my summary.
3. Resourcefully Dependent – Leaders need to be resourceful people. They just have a knack for unlocking resources. They have a way of challenging people without apology to give and contribute. They stay up nights figuring out ways to tap new assets. They’re creative and inventive. They find resources. This is good thing. Nehemiah is an example. But the danger is over time this resourcefulness, the ability to get things done and make things happen, can lead to a sense of self-sufficiency and of arrogance and destroy the deeper truth, which is that I am utterly depended on God. Jesus looks for people who are dependent, resourcefully dependent. A lack of dependence on God is lethal. Check out the story that starts in Acts 12:20. God wants leading servants who are resourcefully dependent on him, who are just on their knees. Questions for You: How is your prayer life? Do you recognize that all you have is a gift from God? Are you humble?
4. Relaxed Urgency – God wants to use us. Some people just drift through life. There is no sense of urgency. We live in a world that the Scripture says is locked in a battle between good and evil, life and death. These are very real and create in us a deep sense of conviction and urgency. But the danger is that while I need to take my mission and my calling from God with great urgency, I also need to take my appearance, my visible success, my reputation, my little set of ambitions, my resume – real lightly. God calls us to do his work with passion, but god is not anxious about his kingdom at all, He is not biting his fingernails to see what you’re going to do next. Servant leaders have a burning sense of relaxed urgency.
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