Leadership is leading. Sometimes this includes using the strength of others to accomplish a task. Other times it requires accomplishing the task with no one standing beside you. Leadership is more than simply pursuing goals and accomplishing tasks. Leadership is the means by which you attain your goals. It is the means to the end and everything in between. Leadership involves influence. It is interpreted by the way you interact with those who choose to follow and how you respond to those you would hope to draw close. Some might say that leaders are defined by those who follow. But leadership can be as much about opposition as it is about being accepted. Qualities such as compassion, humility and devotion, combined with wisdom, determination and fortitude are what make Jesus Christ the greatest leader in history. No one else could ever have understood the depth of meaning in leadership the way Jesus understood and lived it. His was a leadership that defied human intuition and reestablished what other men would have forsaken apart from His leading. Many have said that you aren’t a leader if no one is following. But leadership cannot always be defined by the affirmative responses of those you are determined to lead. The leadership of Jesus was as much about personal integrity and serving as it was about influencing others. Jesus’ leadership can be best defined by the term “servant leadership.” Servant leadership employs personal motivations that are driven toward leading others toward greater self-fulfillment and corporate goal achievement. It draws from the character and attitudes that Jesus modeled to those he led, as well as, to those who lived under his influence. As Paul T.P. Wong contends in his paper on this topic, servant leaders “are set apart [by] selfless motivations

and attitudes.”1 This is certainly consistent with the person and behaviors of Jesus