Heroes & Villains: Jesus On Leadership

The true form of servant leadership doesn’t lie in Nouwen’s downwardly
mobile Christ. Because there is still the assumption that the top-down
model is implanted within the very psyche of leadership. If you can allow me to be simplistic for a
moment, maybe our ideas of leadership, however informed they are scripture, might not be informed enough.

Let Go of Jesus

Jesus had to leave in order for his friends to realize that ‘Lo, I am with you always till the end of the age’. Jesus had to dematerialize for his movement to materialize. This is very much like belief, it too must dematerialize to materialize into its naturally maleable form.

Love: The Disruptive Absence

We tend to create desire out of the desire of the other. The other could be law, society, God, peers and Other others. We attempt to try to fill these gaps of desire with things that cannot truly fill them. They are representations of representations. And so they aren’t Real, they are simply real. The idea of love is a shadow to love. All of our ideas of love make up what love should/could be.