Cheryl Schatz

Corrie #15,

The way I look at it, it all boils down to control, power, fleshly ambition, and the need to be the greatest in the Kingdom without actually doing what it takes (being servant to all) to be the greatest.

This is well said.  Wanting preeminence without doing what is necessary for preeminence (giving up of one’s own ambition and humbling oneself to serve others) is taking a short cut to leadership.  But there is no such short cut in the Kingdom of light.  Jesus gave no other way than the way he lived out his leadership – and that is humble servanthood, caring for the sheep above caring for one’s own needs.  We have way too many egos in leadership that have been allowed to circumvent the Lord’s way.

Greg,

Your words about mothers and grandmothers of the pastors there who acted in a rude fashion made me laugh.