(2006). Shepherds after my own heart: pastoral traditions and leadership in the Bible. (2003). Business for the glory of God: The Bibles teaching on the moral goodness of business. (2009). Biblical Servant Leadership: an exploration of leadership for the contemporary context. The servant leadership principle that can be gleaned from this scriptural analysis is that when a leader conducts himself in an immoral way, that conduct can hinder him from leading effectively, either in an indirect or direct way (Serrano, 2015)
This did nothing but bring the wrath of the guards down upon the Hebrews. The philosophy of servant leadership differentiates servant leaders as those who put the well-being of those served in the larger society as their highest. Thinking that he knew best, he decided to kill one of the Egyptian guards as an act of revenge. “Why are you beating up your friend?” Moses said to the one who had started the fight”.īy reading that passage, one observes that Moses saw what was being done to his people and recognized it as wrong. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews. After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand. The next day, when Moses went out to visit his people again, he saw two Hebrew men fighting. “Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. Take Exodus 2: 11-13, for instance (Saint Mary’s Press, 2012). When Moses chose not to care for his followers, and turned inwards, he was often admonished in one way or another for his conceit (Laniak, 2006).
The type of leadership that Moses exhibited can be considered a forerunner to Servant Leadership, because of the way in which he paid attention to, and cared for his followers (Whittington, 2015). The purpose of this assignment is to examine servant leadership practices with regard to religions and cultures other than those associated with Christianity. The prophet Moses is one of these leaders, and a good example to talk about, because Moses’s story is well known. Their goal however was always the same, and that was to serve the people (Grudem, 2003). Some were shining examples of moral leadership…and others were not. There were many examples of leaders in the Old Testament scriptures. His essay became famous for that statement which led to the adoption of the concept. Robert Greanleaf in 1970, noted that leadership is servant first. There is much to be learned from the Old Testament Scriptures concerning servant leadership and its application to real situations in diverse contexts (Crowther, 2009). This essay traces the origin of servant leadership, analyzes the viewpoints, compares it to cultural and religious values, then finally notes the similarities or differences in the chosen context.
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