Transcript Servant Leadership and Youth by Steve Dillman

Born to Serve:
Servant Leadership
Among Youth
Dr. Steve Dillman
Purpose
My purpose is to help develop youth to
be servant leaders whom God can
use NOW to grow His Kingdom to His
honor and glory.
Purpose
Three reasons for servant leadership:
1. It seems to be a leadership model
used by Jesus.
2. It is a leadership model that is
compatible with holiness.
3. It is an emerging leadership focus that
integrates techniques with positive
values and motivations.
Leadership
What is leadership?
Leadership
Focus on group processes; matter of
personality; matter of inducing
compliance; exercise of influence;
particular behavior; form of
persuasion; power relation; instrument
to achieve goals; an act of interaction;
a differentiated role; initiation of
structure; a combination of any or all
of the above.”
Bernard Bass, Bass & Stogdill’s Handbook on Leadership
Leadership
What is servant leadership?
Leadership
Genuine servant leadership is
an influence that emerges
from the motivations and
values of the leader.
Leadership
Top Ten
Reasons
You May
Need To
Improve
As A
Leader
10. Your little brother runs every
time he sees you coming.
9. Your parents have put a
hazardous waste sign on your
bedroom door.
8. The car insurance agent knows
more about you than he does your
parents.
7. Your dates would rather stay
home and watch SpongeBob
SquarePants on TV.
Leadership
Top Ten
Reasons
You May
Need To
Improve
As A
Leader
6. You do your homework in crayon.
5. You think “Catcher in the Rye” is
about a minor league baseball
player.
4. You consider the mall an
educational field trip.
3. Babies cry only when you pick
them up.
2. In gym class, the school jocks
pick their noses before they’ll pick
you.
Leadership
Top Ten
Reasons
You May
Need To
Improve
As A
Leader
1. The church youth
group stopped
telling you where
they were meeting.
Church Leadership Movement
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Basically, organizationally oriented
Tries to focus on others
Inspires with vision and mission
Based on Biblical values
Church Leadership Movement
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Authoritative - Positional authority
Church Leadership Movement
“Some of us take our leadership role more seriously than
others.”
Church Leadership Movement
• Authoritative - Positional authority
• Transactional - Contests, competitions,
public pressures
• Business Model – Biblical motivations
wrapped in business strategies
• Functional – Needs drive leadership
decisions
Church Leadership Movement
Servant Leadership
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Enhances the best in all leadership
styles and strategies.
Addresses two major flaws:
 Focuses on people – They are the “end”
and not a “means to an end.”
 Value-based Lifestyle - Not a leadership
style/technique incorporating values.
Servant Leadership
Secular Influence – Robert Greenleaf
“The servant leader is servant first….It begins with the natural
feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. The conscious
choice brings one to aspire to lead….The difference manifests
itself in the care taken by the servant—first to make sure that
the other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The
best test, and the most difficult to administer, is: Do those being
served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become
healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely
themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the
least privileged in society; will they benefit or, at least, not be
further deprived?”
Servant Leadership
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Pre-Christian Influence
 Leader First – Choose to serve
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Christian Influence
 Servant First – Leader by God’s grace
 Jesus is the role model - Matthew 20: 26-28
Servant Leadership
Theological Issues in Matthew 20
1. Jesus’ leadership is different than worldly
leadership.
2. Pre-requisite for greatness in the Kingdom
is becoming a servant/slave.
3. Jesus identifies himself as a servant.
4. The role of servant involves serving and
sacrifice.
Servant Leadership
Ebed = “Servant” in Old Testament
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Someone who will establish justice
Someone who will be a covenant to the
people
Someone to set captives free
Someone who will serve both Jews and
Gentiles
Someone who will suffer as part of the
reconciling process
Someone who will bear another’s burden
Servant Leadership
Essential Character
Motivational
Altruism – consideration of others
above one’s own self and without
regard to compensation.
Agape Love – highest form of love
involving sacrifice and submission.
Servant Leadership
Essential Character
Values
Humility – think more highly of
others than ones’ self.
Trust – integrity, honesty.
Service – willingness to decrease
so that others may increase their
effectiveness.
Servant Leadership
Essential Character
Behavior
Vision – seeing the potential in
others.
Empowerment – enabling others to
become leaders themselves.
Service – doing whatever it takes
to increase the effectiveness of
others.
Servant Leadership
Summary
Servant Leadership is a lifestyle that seeks to
lead from a set of motivations and values
that focuses on benefiting and blessing
people because we love them and want to
serve them; not because they can help us
achieve some kind of organizational
success.
Servant Leadership
Servant Leadership
To continue the dialogue…
Feel free to contact me:
Dr. Stephen W. Dillman
[email protected]