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Meekness is a grossly under-rated quality in our day and age, yet Jesus insisted that the meek will inherit the earth. In this month’s post, I reflect on the need for meek leadership in a world that is dominated by agressive activistic visionary leadership that imposes a leader’s will on others to achieve goals.
I got called out. I made fun of a friend and fellow leader in a way that stung him and he challenged me to consider if there was some deeper resentment behind the banter. It was a needed wake-up call. Self examination before the Lord revealed some ‘stuff’ to work on. As leaders’ we’re never above reproach.
The forest lord of Māori lore visited God in the highest heaven and was gifted three baskets of knowledge: spiritual, historic and experiential. When we encounter others in missions, humility demands we do so with an empty basket ready to learn from them, to add that to our existing baskets of knowledge.
The word “mission” doesn’t appear in the Bible… “Mission” is an English word derived from the Latin “missio” which refers to “a task assigned” and until the 16th century it only applied to God sending Jesus and the Spirit.