Servant Leadership: The Opposite of Lording Authority

Contrasting Worldly Authority

0:00 Speaker 1: We're buds and we're going to nail you.

0:01 Speaker 1: Literally, we're going to nail you.

0:04 Speaker 1: You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them.

0:09 Speaker 1: Is it not held over us all the time that they are an authority?

0:13 Speaker 1: They know what's best, how you should arrange your family, how the church should be done.

0:17 Speaker 1: Is that not true, jacob?

0:18 Speaker 1: Yes, it goes on to say and their high officials exercise authority over them.

0:26 Speaker 1: I like that word exercise, because what you bump into are these officials that, for no real reason, they just say this is the way it is or this is what you have to do.

0:37 Speaker 1: They like to exercise.

0:38 Speaker 1: Think of people that exercise, you know, go running or do pushups.

0:41 Speaker 1: I know people, sir, some people that just enjoy exercising.

Officials Who Exercise Power

0:45 Speaker 1: Right, correct?

0:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's exactly what the officials over us, they lord over us, and they just enjoy flexing their muscles.

0:52 Speaker 1: You have to do it this way.

0:54 Speaker 1: That's what the rule is.

0:55 Speaker 1: You have to pay the fine.

0:56 Speaker 1: We don't have to tell you.

0:57 Speaker 1: We can keep this in the dark.

0:59 Speaker 1: We hear it constantly and they just like, even if it's just a simple basic request, like, tell me this.

1:08 Speaker 1: Over here we heard back from the judges in king county saying well, we don't have to tell you okay.

1:10 Speaker 1: Well, really, you just can't be human, you just can't answer the question.

1:14 Speaker 1: Didn't say you couldn't answer the question, sure, you said you didn't have to, didn't have to, yeah.

1:18 Speaker 1: So all the humanity is drained out of king county courts.

1:22 Speaker 1: All the humanity is drained out of judge la courts.

1:23 Speaker 1: All the humanity is drained out of Judge Lori K Smith.

1:25 Speaker 1: Certainly all the humanity was drained out of the prosecutors.

1:28 Speaker 1: They would not listen.

1:30 Speaker 1: It was a lot of this came down to a power play.

Jesus' Alternative Leadership Model

1:33 Speaker 1: We didn't bow down to them like the rest of Washington state.

1:37 Speaker 1: We were submissive, but we didn't bow down and they didn't like it, and they were going to make sure that we knew they didn't like it.

1:45 Speaker 1: Right, well, mr simmons, that's not how the leadership at sound doctrine church worked.

1:53 Speaker 1: Mark 10, 43 says jesus says not so with you.

1:57 Speaker 1: It is the complete opposite of who you are, mr simmons, and who you think we were.

2:04 Speaker 1: Not so so with you.

Responsibility of Spiritual Leadership

2:05 Speaker 1: Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant.

2:12 Speaker 1: I was at the mercy of everybody who needed and wanted attention, and let me tell you it was great.

2:19 Speaker 1: Not only that in the Lord, I am responsible before Jesus Christ to present everybody perfect in Jesus Christ.

2:27 Speaker 1: Do you know how much effort that takes, mr Simmons?

2:29 Speaker 1: Well, of course not.

2:30 Speaker 1: Most people in the church didn't know how much effort that takes, right, jacob?

2:35 Speaker 1: Correct?

2:35 Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a congregation.

2:37 Speaker 1: I'll go wild here, I'll go crazy, because Simmons likes numbers.

2:40 Speaker 1: Let's say at one point we probably had a peak of 30, maybe 40.

2:43 Speaker 1: Numbers let's say at one point we probably had a peak of 30, maybe 40.

2:47 Speaker 1: Every single one of those individuals I was responsible for presenting them perfect in Jesus Christ, protecting them in Jesus Christ, preaching to them in Jesus Christ, laying down my life for them.

2:56 Speaker 1: That means every person that came to me and, believe me, they all did some multiple times during the day.

Individualized Spiritual Care

3:01 Speaker 1: There are weaker parts of the body that need constant attention and I needed to know from the Lord how to serve them.

3:08 Speaker 1: What to say, what to do, what not to do, what to say okay, it's time to go here and everybody's at a different growth spot.

3:15 Speaker 1: No good parent treats every child the same.

3:19 Speaker 1: You might have a 4-year-old and you might have a 14-year-old.

3:22 Speaker 1: Would you treat them the same, jacob?

3:25 Speaker 1: No, very different.

3:26 Speaker 1: Well, actually, in today's cases, I imagine the 14 year old's more like the four year old.

3:30 Speaker 1: But, aside issue from that little point, each one is treated different according to what their maturity or lack of maturity, their skills, or who they are, or what they do, or what they like or what they don't like.