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Journaling provides a valuable tool for recording, reflecting on, and reviewing your learning. This approach provides an opportunity for you to “connect the dots” and observe the relationships between and among activities, interactions, and outcomes.
Unlike a personal journal of thoughts and feelings, this leadership journal is a record of your activities, assessments, and learning related to this academic experience.
Journal entries should include a record of the number of hours spent with your nurse leader each week.
Write a journal entry of 750-1,500 words on the subject of authority, including the following:
Practicum Activities Reflection: Provide observations and thoughts on the activities in your practicum setting during Weeks 3-4.
Application of Leadership: Reflect on how change management is handled in your professional life. How is this related to strategic management principles? Explain your answer and provide an example.
Practicum Project Preparation: Explain how your project goals align with the mission and vision of your organization, as well as with the organizational needs. Is it important that these align? Provide your rationale.
Leadership Video Reflection: Reflect on at least two things you learned from the “Servant Leadership – Issue of Authority” video.
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Servant Leadership – The Issue of Power
Darryl: Hi, my name is Darryl DelHousaye. I’m president of Phoenix Seminary and it is a great
privilege to be able to come and be able to share this information with you. What I want to do
is I want to walk you through the 7 distinctive characteristics of servant leadership. This is a
leadership that is patterned by the very model of Jesus Christ himself. I’ve read that 85% of
managerial failures have to do with “the ineptness in dealing with people”. That’s why John D.
Rockefeller even said that he would pay more money for the ability to deal with people than
anything else under the sun. And so, I want to first define what leadership is before we get into
these characteristics. Because, you could read 350 different books on leadership and you will
find 350 different definitions. There’s been a real thrust, everyone wants to be a leader.
Reminds me of a story of the young lady that applied for a local university and when she came
to a question on the application: are you a leader? Well, she was a little bit intimidated by that
and so she was very honest and said “no, I’m really more of a follower.” Well, after they
processed her application, she received an acceptance letter, probably before anyone else
because they were so delighted because they said they had 3000, apparently 3000 leaders, and
were looking for 1 to be at least a follower. And so, we sometimes get all caught up with this
leadership, and then we define it many different ways, but in reality, if you just put it down to 1
word, leadership is nothing more than influence. It comes down to how does one human being
influence another human being? So, so good leadership is how does one human being influence
someone else to do something that is good, healthy. A bad leadership is how does one human
being influence another human being to do that which is evil or that which is bad. So, when it
comes down, if we begin to understand it, leadership really comes down to this issue of, of, of
influence, then your leadership style is going to have more to do with your personality. And I’ve
seen leaders with styles all the way from Attila the Hun to Captain Kangaroo! But my hope is
that you will be able to, once you understand these distinctives that actually pattern after what
Jesus Christ called leadership and who influenced more than he did? Then, you’ll be able to
shape your own leadership style in more conformity to that of Jesus Christ. So, let’s begin with
the first of the 7 distinctives and that is this issue of power. Now Tony Campolo has written a
book called “The Power Delusion” where he talks about this whole issue of power and
influence. Matter of fact, he defines power as, basically, being able to determine what happens.
Or, others would say yielding the will of others to your own. Well, that has to do with
controlling people. And that’s more of the perversion of power, is when it’s all about “serve me,
carry out my will”, over more, like we’ll talk about later, visions of self-divinity. When, in reality,
the word that we translate from the New Testament “power” is the word “Dunamis”, like
dynamite, like like, dynamic. And this word, used 118 times in the New Testament, all it really
means is “to have a capacity to carry out something so that it influences someone else.” It really
is the power of possessing the power of influence. And so now the question you’ve got to ask
yourself is then well, then what is it about me that’s going to influence someone else? The
answer is very simple, what is it about you that somebody else would want, whether that be
something about you that they want to imitate, something that you know that they would like
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to know, or something that you can can do and provide success for them. The fact is, your
power, your ability to influence others all comes down to what is it about you you have to
offer? Now, no, you didn’t pick your parents, but God did. And it has to do with the fact that as
Psalms 139 says, God was weaving you in your mother’s womb. God has been in control of the
way you were raised, the experiences you had, the experiences you did not have. It’s all one big
package, and I believe that’s what the Apostle Paul was talking about in Romans 12 when he
talks about “we are one body, but we are many different parts” and that God has given each
one of us, remember in verse 3 of Romans 12 “a measure of faith”. Then, he gives a list of these
charismata, these particular gifts. And remember, charismata, charis, the word grace, these are
grace given gifts that the spirit of God gives us based on our uniqueness of who we are and
what we have to offer. And, in other words, what we going to possess that’s going to influence
the lives of others. So, as Paul goes ahead and talks about there’s a gift of leadership,
encouragement, and teaching, and he lists the whole 7 there. Then Paul talks about, you know,
some 14 others in his writings. But, it really comes down to the fact that if you wanna know the
essence of your power, how is it that God is gonna use you to influence others, the best way is
to simply ask. Ask people who know you; people who are intimately acquainted with your
personality, your history, and who you-, what you’re all about, and then just ask them the very
simple question: “How does God use me in your life? What is it about me that you feel I have to
offer? Is it some knowledge of accumulated, is it some ability that wants, you want to emulate?
Is, is it some uh uh uh uh, a responsibility I have that can open up doors for you?” But, until you
can identify what it is about you, that you have to offer that other people desire to have and
would benefit them in some way, you’ll never know your power. And, until you can identify
what your power, what you have to offer, you will not be able to lead because you don’t know
what you’re going to be influencing. You may imitate other leaders, but you’ll never be an
authentic leader using the dunamis that God has given you. As God has absolute power to
accomplish anything He wants and we have to truly want whatever God has to offer, that’s His
power to us, but He’s given dunamis, power, to those that He’s created to be able to influence
others. So, if you want to know what this issue of power, it’s really where all leadership begins.
So, start by simply asking those who know well: “What is it about me that you feel I have to
offer others?” and in finding an answer to that question, you’re going to discover the real issue
of your power, and your leadership begins.
Servant Leadership – The Issue of Authority
Darryl: We’re talking about the 7 distinctive characteristics of servant leadership. These are 7
different words that I have derived right out of the New Testament that really describes, either
in a positive way or in a contrasting way, the very leadership style of Jesus Christ. And as
disciples of Jesus, we want to become more like Him because He is the greatest influencer.
Remember last time we talked about the essence of leadership that’s summarized really in 1
word, that’s the word influence; how does 1 human being influence another human being to do
something that is good? Remember we talked first about the issue of power. That is, what is it
that you possess? What is it that you have, or you’ve been given, that basically can influence
others? That is, what is it about you that you have to offer others for their benefit, for their
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good? Well, we want to come to the second characteristic and that is this characteristic of
authority. Now, when you think of the word authority, uh, it has a lot of negative connotations,
uh, because it’s been so abused. It tends to describe the mind of most people, the power to in
control people. “I have authority over you. You’ve got to do what I say, you’ve got to serve me
in some way.” And yet, you need to understand that is a perversion of the very concept of
authority. Social scientists define authority as “legitimate power”. That is, “the legitimate
exercise of the influence of power”. So, that is, back to power, whatever you have to be able to
influence to benefit others. Do you have the right to basically to give that to others; to, to
exercise that leadership? So, this theory of authority really has to do with this concept of “do
you have the legitimate right to influence those around you? Or, are you forcing it upon
someone who really does not want to respond to your leadership. Though, the word in the New
Testament that we translate authority is this Greek word “exousia” and all the word exousia
means is “the right”. And, specifically in the context of leadership, “the right to make a
decision”. That is, a decision that you expect others to carry out. And so, if exousia is simply the
concept of “I have the right to make this decision, and therefore, I can expect you to carry out
the decisions, my will, the choices that I make. Then, the issue is what is it that gives me this
right, this platform to be able to make such a decision? And that’s where I, I called a, uh, there’s
uh formal authority and informal authority. Formal authority is basically what gives you the
right is your position. That is, you are the boss, you’re the president, you’re the senior pastor,
you’re the owner, you’re the leader. As long as your position is acknowledged, your position
gives you the right to exousia, to make the decisions. Someone has the make the decisions in a
ministry, a company, an organization, whatever it is, and it is the right of the leader, the
president, the boss, the owner, to make those decisions. Now, that is formal authority, and
Jesus was very well aware of His formal authority. Remember Matthew 28, before He gives a
great commission to go to the world and make disciples, it says “Jesus recognized and had
authority over the heavens and the earth”, all authority. Matter of fact, just before that, in John
13, remember when Jesus washes the feet of the disciples? He, He does that! Remember to, to,
to see how they’re going to respond to Him humbling Himself, because tomorrow
He’s going to be humiliated on the cross. And, of course, the only guy that messed up with the
washing of the feet, as far as Jesus humiliating Himself, was the same guy who messed up the
next day when he saw Jesus humiliated on the cross. And, of course, we’re talking Peter
himself. But, remember, Jesus said “you call me lord and master and so I am.” So, Jesus fully
understood formal authority. Because of who He was, because of His position as teacher and
master. And so, formal authority is that you have the right to make a decision that steers your,
uh, uh, uh, uh, your organization of whatever it is that you’re leading…
[Darryl takes a deep breath]
…because of that position. But, I move to what I believe Jesus moved to and that’s informal
authority. And, informal authority is when people basically give you the right to make decisions
in their life because of their trust in you and your integrity. See, that’s when people begin to
seek out your counsel, seek out your guidance. They’re not in a receiving mode that, basically,
you have to dictate, or by memos, say “okay, here’s my decision, we’re going to do this, we’re
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going to do that, we’re going to do this”, that’s formal authority. They’re sometimes out of fear,
whether they just want to keep their jobs or maybe they recognize that you have something to
offer and they do respect your power, your influence. But you always want to move from
formal authority to informal authority. You want to move where people have such trust in who
you are, such desire in what you have to offer, that is, your power, that they begin to actually
seek out, desiring willfully. That is, to yield their will and to carry out whatever counsel,
whatever input that you have. And so what happens, instead of dictating decisions, you really
get, uh, you come to a place of shepherding and guiding. Because you’re dealing with people
who very much have already chosen to yield their will to your decisions and to carry out your
decisions because of who you are and their trust for you. And as we go into these other
distinctives, you’re going to find out in just a little bit, why it is that they’re going to trust you
so. So, where are we at so far? We have, basically, the first issue is the issue of power. That is,
what do you have to offer? What is it about you that can benefit others? And then the second
issue of authority, well then what gives you the right to be able to exercise that power, that
influence on others? And the answer is, well, if its formal authority, it’s your position. But you
want to move from formal authority, where people have to carry out your will, to informal
authority, where people want to carry out your will, not because of your position, but because
of who you are. And that’s what moves us closer to servant leadership.
Servant Leadership – The Issue of Rule
Darryl: We want to continue our study in the 7 characteristics of servant leadership.
Remember, these are 7 words that we’ve derived right from the New Testament that describes
either in harmony or in contrast to the very leadership style of Jesus Christ. Remember, we
defined leadership as basically, in one word, its influence. And how does one human being
influence another human being for good, hopefully. And so it all began, remember, with the
first issue and that was the issue of power. What is it that you possess that other people want?
In other words, what is it about you that can benefit others? That’s your power. That’s where
your influence begins. But then we move to the issue of authority. And that is, well what gives
you the right to exercise that power over others so that they don’t feel controlled or coerced?
And, the answer is, remember the word authority means the right, it’s either from your formal
authority or informal authority. Remember, formal authority has to do with your position, that
gives you the right, but you never know why people are responding and carrying out your will
and your choices; it may be out of fear. But, you want to move from formal authority to
informal authority, because what gives you the right to make the decisions? The fact that they
trust you. Well, that moves us to this third issue of characteristic of spiritual leadership, and
that’s this issue of rule. Now, this term rule is really, is a negative term and this is a contrasting
characteristic. In other words, rule is something you want to purge out of your leadership style
because it’s so natural for us to want to control over people. Remember Friedrich Nietzsche’s
view, that the desire to power over people, control other people, is a basic human drive of the
fallen nature. So, we’re always going to fall back into this concept of ruling others and it needs
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to be purged out. Jesus gives a great insight to us, for us here in Matthew chapter 20. What
happens is that, uh, James and John, they’re looking for top positions. Again, they want formal
authority in the kingdom. So they hire a very expensive, uh, PR company, basically their mother.
And so their mom, this is all in Matthew 20, their mom comes up to Jesus and, being a good
Jewish mom, “you know, my son, a lawyer, my son, a doctor”, she asked Jesus if one of her sons
could sit on His right and one of her sons could sit on the left when He comes into His kingdom.
Now, the wonderful thing is that she believes in Jesus, believes He’s a king and He’s going to
have a kingdom. But, the interesting thing is that Jesus responds by saying “you know, only God
the Father chooses who’s going to sit and who’s going to have what authority and positions in,
in the kingdom.” Well, the other 10 disciples want to hear what’s going on; it says that they get
really angry. And, of course, you know why they’re angry. They’re angry because they didn’t get
their mother there first! But, the fact is, it’s that context Jesus says “guys, guys, come here!
Let’s talk about it. You’ve been fighting about authority and positions of leadership and
influence.” He says “let me first make sure you understand something.” And that’s when He
makes this very interesting statement. He says “now, in the world, a bad case of the normals in
the leadership style in the world is that they lorded over one another and they exercised
authority over one another.” Now Jesus, in the Greek, it’s the strongest way you can negate
something. He says “it shall not be among you.” So this lording it over, this exercise of authority
over, is something that must be purged if we’re going to have any sense of, of servant
leadership. And so, first of all, what is this lording it over? The word lord is a word “kurios”. It
speaks of a master and one serves a master. Uh, but what Jesus does here is takes a participle.
Now, I don’t know if you slept through 9th grade English, but let me wake it up. A preposition is
a little word that basically goes in front of another term that gives it a description. And the
word, the preposition used here, is the word “kata”, uh K-A-T-A. Kata means down, below. Like,
for example, the word for gossip, to talk down, is “katalalia”. Kata-, down, -lalia, to speak. It
sounds a little gross, katalalia. Anyway, here He uses the word “kata kurios”. It is to view
everyone as down below you and they are there and you are their lord. To lord over is an
expectation, an attitude that “everybody around there is there to benefit me, to serve me.” And
then this exercise and authority over… remember the word authority “exousia”? Well, Jesus
takes that preposition “kata” and puts it in front of that one as well, it’s “kata exousia”. It’s to
exercise authority over and basically, it’s this, it’s this mentality that “everybody is below me
and they exist to carry out my decisions, to carry out my will.” Now the reason Jesus reacts to
this and says “it shall not be among you”, is these two components make up visions of selfdivinity. It’s the essence of arrogance. I mean, one of the perks of being a god, based on the
Lord’s Prayer of Matthew 6, is “remember our Father art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.”
That is, you’d be hallowed, treated with holiness, treated with respect. Then He said “Thy
kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Think of the last time you got
angry. I bet you it was not righteous indignation. I’ll tell you why we got angry, you got angry for
one to two reasons. Either you weren’t being treated the way you felt you should have been
treated or your will wasn’t being done on earth as it is in heaven. In other words, things weren’t
going your way. See, and we get angry; those are visions of self-divinity. That’s how a god
responds to his creation. God expects to be treated with holiness and expects His will to be
done on earth as it is in heaven. And yet, our god-likeness, that is, our desire to be like God, in
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our arrogance, we want to be treated the same way. This is what ruling is all about. It is lording
it over, “you exist, basically, to treat me with what, the respect I want to be treated.” And this
exercise of authority over, “you exist to carry out my will.” Excuse me.
[Darryl laughs]
God is God and I am not. And we need to get that straight in our thinking when it comes to
leadership. So, when we deal with ruling, this is stuff that needs to be purged out, in the words
of Jesus. Even though it’s a bad case of the normals, in the world, that’s how leadership treats
other people, Jesus says “it shall not be found among you”, it needs to be purged.
Servant Leadership – The Issue of Headship
Darryl: We’re gonna continue this study and the 7 characteristics of servant leadership.
Remember we talked about if you’re going to boil down leadership to one word, it’s the word
influence. How does one human being influence another human being? And remember it
begins with the issue of power. The question is, what is it about you you have to offer? If you
are going to influence others and they’re going to receive something from you, what is it that
they’re going to receive that’s going to benefit them in some way? Once you identify your
power, that is what you have to offer, then it moves, remember, to the second issue of
authority. What gives you the right to exercise that power upon others? Remember there was
formal authority and informal authority. Formal authority, it’s your position that gives you that
right. But, we always want to move to informal authority, that “people give me that right where
they choose and desire to want receive what I have to offer.” Well, then we move to that issue,
that third issue of rule. Remember Jesus said “it shall not be among you”, it must be purged.
This mentality of arrogance, pride, self-divinity. This idea that everybody around me, that works
for me, or reports to me, they exist for two reasons. They exist, basically, “to serve me and to
carry out my will.” People do not like being used, and that self, that self-divinity attitude is
basically what’s going to burn your people out. And so this concept of rule needs to be purged
out. Now, we come to the fourth, and that’s this issue of headship. I know whenever I move
into a discussion or a lecture on headship, I sometimes wonder if I need to put a football helmet
on. Because, this concept of headship, and a man’s authority of a woman and women’s
authority over men and it, it, it gets to be quite a battle. And so my desire is not to offend
anybody, but let’s just honestly look at the text itself. There is no question that this concept of
headship, of authority, has been so abused. It’s been abused in the church. Matter of fact,
when I read church history, I understand why so many women are so angry and so hurt. I think
if I was created a female, I’d probably be somewhat of a flaming feminist myself. So, I
understand the abuse. And not only in the church, but even in the home. And, and, and you
ladies, you will hear that a woman should submit to her husband, and it sounds like submit to
his authority. And what if he’s abusive? What if he’s a real knucklehead? And so this whole
issue of headship and and authority over has really met some real strong emotion and passion.
And so, uh, uh, uh, uh I understand the pain, I’m not going to say I feel your pain, but I
understand the pain. But what does the scripture actually say? Well, the word that we translate
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headship is the word “kephale”. And kephale, for example, is used in 1 Corinthians chapter 11
verse 3 where it says “and God the Father is the head of Christ, Christ is the head of man, and
man is the head of woman.”
[Darryl makes a growling sound]
Now women, relax a little bit. Let’s get to this. You find the word “kephale” also found in
Ephesians chapter 5, where it talks about that men are to love their wives as Christ loves the
church, give them-self up for their bride. Women are to respond in loving submission, and the
reason given there in Ephesians 5 is because headship belongs to the husband. Now, this
therefore… that’s why some people believe that that, well, this word “kephale” actually means
source of. Doesn’t mean authority over, but. but source of. That, somehow, the man is the
source of the woman. And the argument is that as Adam and, and, and the woman was taken
out of the side of the man, man is the source of woman and that’s all it really talks about.
Everybody is basically equal in every role and everybody treats everybody as the same. But is
that really what the scripture says? The truth is, the reason that some feel that the word
“kephale” means “source of” is because in ancient literature you have two places, one’s in the
fourth century B.C., one’s in the sixth century B.C.,. But the word “kephale” describes the head
of a river. So, in a sense, it was the head of a river, much we would use the same term “the
head of the river”, is that it was the source of the river, it was a spring, and it was the beginning
of that river. And so, they argue that’s all “kephale” means, is to be the source of something.
Man is the source of the woman. The only trouble is if you look at the other 2,336 uses of the
term. From the sixth century B.C., at the time of Christ, for another 200 years, every single time
without exception, other than those two times, the fourth and sixth century B.C., 500 years
before Jesus and Paul even mentioned and used the term. The term always means “authority
over”, you really can’t argue the fact. But, the authority over, you need to ask the question:
“authority over in what sense?” And, and from my study of the term and etymology and the
history of it, in this context, headship is authority over in the sense of responsibility. That’s all it
really means, is that the man has to take the responsibility for the woman. As the Father took
responsibility for the Son, Jesus takes responsibility for the man, and the man takes
responsibility for the woman. But the question is, “the responsibility of what? To do what?”
Again, if you study Ephesians chapter 5 and in that text, you’ll see how I follow that through,
and you’re going to see that the responsibility, the headship, is to create an environment where
people feel safe, secure. You see, people, children, and wives, basically feel safe, really anyone
feels safe when they feel two things: protected and honored. When someone feels protected,
that is they know that, that physically, emotionally, and spiritually, that the person leading
them, the person taking the responsibility, the headship over them, is creating an environment
that they physically and emotionally and spiritually protected so that they can feel safe. When
someone feels safe, that’s when they feel loved. When they experience the sense of security,
that’s when they feel of great worth and valued. But as you’re going to see in the text, it’s not
just providing protection, it’s second of all, it is providing, providing honor. The word honor is
the word “timao”, it means to weigh heavy. It has nothing to do with somebody’s weight but
back in these days, remember gold and silver? We had balances and based on its weight and it’s
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purity, you could find it’s worth. So, “timao” means to weigh heavy something, to recognize it’s
great worth. And so you put anybody at your responsible for, whether again you’re the leader,
the boss, the owner, whatever it might be. The pastor, the fact is that you have the
responsibility of headship. That is, the responsibility to provide an environment where your
people feel both protected and honored. And they feel protected when they know that you will
secure them in any way you can, for their safety. Honored in that you listened to them, you
weigh heavy their counsel, you respond to them as human beings. When they feel protected
and honored, they will feel safe, they will feel secure. And that’s when they feel loved. And that
is the essence of headship. So you need to ask yourself the question if you’re in leadership,
“what are the expectations on me? What responsibilities do I have? Because I have authority
over these people, responsibility for these people, to create an environment so that they do
indeed feel loved. So that they’ll feel protected, they feel honored, that’s servant leadership.
Servant Leadership – The Issue of Servant
Darryl: As we continue this study in the 7 characteristics of servant leadership, I want to remind
you once again, and I know I’m saying it every time but I’m going to say it every time because
I’m going to make sure you get it. The essence of leadership is influence, and it all begins first
with the issue of power. What is it about you that, that can benefit others? What is it that you
have to offer? What is it that other people would desire that would make them better people,
or make them successful in some way? But then it comes to the question, what gives you the
right to exercise such power that influence? And remember, the word authority basically has to
do with there’s formal authority and informal authority. Is what gives you the right is your
position, but you want to move to informal authority, for people because of their trust and
their desire for what you have to offer? They actually will initiate and pursue, deriving from
you, what are your decisions? What is your counsel? What is your guidance? And Jesus talked
about this issue of rule, it needs to be purged out. Remember, “It shall not be among you”.
These visions of self-divinity, that people exist to serve me and to carry out my will, it’s a bad
case of the normals in the world, and “strong leadership” But the reality is Jesus said “it shall
not be among you.” Then remember, then He moved to this issue of headship. And headship is
authority over but in a sense of responsibility. The responsibility to create an environment of
the people that you’re leading, where they feel loved. They feel loved when they feel safe. And
there’s two things that will make them feel safe and secure, protection and honor. The fact that
I will provide protection, that they know I’m committed to their success and their wellbeing,
and honor that I highly value them and highly value what their thoughts, their counsel, and
what they have to say. That’s when they feel protected and honored, that’s when they feel
loved, that’s when they’re under your headship. Now we come to this fifth issue of servant.
Now, this is the flip side of what Jesus was talking about there in Matthew chapter 20.
Remember when the mother of James and John show up and want two top positions for her
two sons. The other disciples get angry and Jesus said you know, in the world, they rule over
one another. And we talked about the lording it over, exercising authority over, and Jesus said
“it shall not be among you.” But now, Jesus gives us the positive. He says this, He says “but now
whoever is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever wants to be number 1,
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the leader, shall be your slave.” And He uses Himself as an example, and I’ll show you how in
just a moment. What’s interesting is Jesus gives two contrasting words here. Servant and slave.
This word servant, He says “the greatest among you”, that is, if you really want to influence
other people around you, you will do it as a servant. Thus, we call this servant leadership. And
the word Jesus uses is the word “diakonos”. Now, we get the word “deacon” from that word.
And, I was raised that a deacon, or a “diakonos”, spoke of someone who waited on tables. Well,
that’s true! But the essence of deacon is really an attitude that anything I have is not to benefit
myself, but to benefit others. So, again, I find significance in any gift or “giftness” that I possess,
is purpose, is design, given to me as a gift to stored (?), and finds its worth only in how it
benefits others. So that’s the mentality of a “diakonos”, of a servant. Is that anything I have, it is
to benefit others. Now this word slave, there are 7 words in the Greek for servant and slave and
this is the word, this is the bottom one, it’s the word “doulos”. As a matter of fact, in the Old
Testament, in the Greek translation, the Septuagint, it, it, spoke of, of slavery. Now some
people try to equate slavery in the Old Testament with slavery and what happened here in the
United States, in the South, and that is such a perversion. You see, in the Old Testament, the
slavery designed there is you would sell yourself into slavery if you couldn’t pay your bills. But
every 7 years, every 7 years, the year was jubilee, everyone got out, everybody got off. You
were only a slave for 7 years! Unless you really liked your master, or, if you were married during
those 7 years, your wife could go with you. But if you did have children, the children stayed. So,
either you’d want to stay with your children or, or, or you and your wife would want to stay
with the master. But, at that point, after 7 years, you could choose to leave, but if you chose to
stay, they put you up against, put a hole in your ear…
[Darryl makes a “boom” noise]
… and at that moment, you became a “doulos”, a bond slave, a slave for life. Well, the mentality
of a “doulos” was the mentality of “I exist to carry out the will of my master, the will of
another.” It was the absence of self-willfulness. For example, if you went to
