Can
a servant serve two masters?
«New Yorkers expect — and deserve — public
servants serving their communities with integrity that is beyond reproach,» Investigation Department Commissioner Mark Peters said.
ZT: A system is corrupt when public
servants serve themselves or their friends, as opposed to the public at large.
Not exact matches
As Greenleaf himself has said, «The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the
servant first to make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being
served.
The term «
servant leader» was first coined by Robert Greenleaf in a 1970 essay, and it describes leaders who seek to
serve first, accepting that true leadership will be the result.
When prime - time hosts — who have never
served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I
served) and, not least, a model public
servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.
Instead of hiring a catering company, do what my former employer, Quest Diagnostics, does at its annual barbecues: The testing company's executives cook and
serve the food, saving money while exemplifying
servant leadership.
Bachelder's story, documented in her book, Dare to
Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by
Serving Others, is the most compelling case study to showcase the power of
servant leadership to reinvent a company from the inside out.
Public companies and public
servants have responsibilities to the public — and it's time the public's interest was
served.
We also provide training to be able to continue
serving communities as a public
servant (firefigher, law enforcement, paramedic, etc.) Thank you for what you are doing for America.
Though dated in its cultural references, Greenleaf presents a powerful description of true
servant leadership; leadership focused on every person your enterprise touches - employees, customers, and society in general - asking, «Do they, while being
served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become
servants?
The debts that were forgiven were personal debts, agrarian debts, and the idea was to liberate the bond -
servants so that they could be available to perform the corvée labor, which was the main kind of taxation in the Bronze Age, and
serve in the army.
Pat Falotico, CEO of the Robert K Greenleaf Center for
Servant Leadership, and Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes ® Louisiana Kitchen Inc., were asked, «What are the biggest barriers to
serving well?»
He is focused, not on how much he can make, but how effectively he can
serve his business clients who aspire to being premier
servant leaders.
Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the leader exists to
serve subordinates with the intention to inspire and equip them with the necessary skill set.
You can also apply if you're a Crown employee (such as a member of the armed forces or civil
servant)
serving abroad, or the partner of a Crown employee.
To the PC party, to his caucus, to all MLAs who have
served with him, and for all staff who came into contact with Manmeet during his incredible time as a public
servant, we mourn together.»
Dare to
Serve shows that
servant leadership is challenging and tough minded — a daring path.
= > Jesus stepped it up a notch and demanded his followers become slaves i.e.
servants just as Jesus came to
serve not be
served.
«f thou buy an Hebrew
servant, six years he shall
serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.»
Three Christian charities - HOPE, LICC and the Bible Society - came together to publish «The
Servant Queen, and the King She
Serves», which provides rare insights into the Queen's relationship with God and how it's affected the other aspects of her life.
No, «sure, we have differences, but how can we go out together and
serve the world as people of God and
servants of Christ?»
Peter has asked what the disciples who have left everything for Jesus will receive, to which Jesus promises «a hundredfold»; Jesus also tells the disciples that «whoever wishes to be great among you must be your
servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave,» and that he «came not to be
served but to
serve» Focus on the formula that comes before and after the parable like bookends: «So the last will be first, and the first will be last.»
It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your
servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be
served but to
serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»
Some had come over as bonded
servants, had
served out their time to pay for their passages, and were eager to move on and find a place for themselves.
And once this recognition is at the heart of our ministry, our preaching will become effectual — not that we are ever more than unworthy and «unprofitable»
servants, but that God in Christ can and does use our unworthiness for his own great ends and makes even our imperfections to
serve him.
«Blessed are those
servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and
serve them.
The world desperately needs
servant leaders, those whom great institutions can trust to lead, because they are first and foremost committed to
serving.
But while these few powerful leaders draw in the big crowds, there are countless
servant leaders out there drawing in smaller, (perhaps less cool) crowds that are being transformed by Jesus Christ, who
served, who sacrificed, and who — at least by the world's standards — failed.
As Christians, we should pray for those whose lives have been enriched by the availability of insurance, and be ready to take up the mantle of
servants and
serve those who find themselves in need.
You shall not compel him to
serve as a slave: In the Mosaic law, if one chronically could not pay his debts, he would have to work off the debt as a
servant of his creditor.
«One of the things that I've learned about
servant leadership is that we don't really get to choose who we
serve, except simply to
serve God.
The unfaithful
servant of Luke 12 didn't
serve or tend the
servants and the master cast him out with the unfaithful.
Mark Greene is the executive director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity and co-author of The
Servant Queen and the King She
Serves, produced in collaboration with Bible Society and HOPE
The Bible sees Matthew Snyder as «God's
servant» for our good, and his death in that just cause demonstrated his great love for the country he
served.
No one can
serve two masters, so the nuns can not be both
servants of Christ and partisans of radical feminism.
Only in that way can the Bible be
served and not become the
servant in a communication event.
The upper hierarchy, none of whom agreed to be quoted, acquiesces in the government's denial and cites examples of Christians who in the past have
served as senior judges, civil
servants and ambassadors.
Paul's statement that Christ «emptied himself, taking the form of a
servant» meant that God graciously chose to reveal his deity in the form of one who humbly
serves others.
When the suffering
servant is allowed to go up and be a light for the nations, the
servant Israel, redeemed and cleansed, will establish God's sovereignty upon itself and
serve as the beginning of His kingdom.
And if the mission of tile
Servant defined the work to which Jesus set his hand, the fate of the
Servant, whose life was made «an offering for sin,» 11 and who «bore the sin of many,» pointed to the destiny that awaited him: «The Son of Man came not to be
served but to
serve, and to give up his life as a ransom for many.»
«No
servant can
serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despite the other.
Genesis 21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew
servant, six years he shall
serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
now hes in the kingdom on his throne how much more powerfull now and us being his
servants and conduits we have all the power of heavenat our disposal by his will.and we are to walk in the darkest places but we have a brighter light and when we go to the dakests we leave that light the darkest place bescomes the brightest place becuause the power used there stays if accepted and kept.we leave a lighted path for others to receave and gets the all deserving glory praise and thankfullness and worship and love he wants.we are always should have the servent humblness.to learn to lead we
serve when we lead we still
serve and people will do the same when they see how well its system works.bless you and follow his path and make ways for him and others.
It is about the
servant who leads and the leaders who
serves.
One of the greatest comment I can make is Jesus Came to
serve and as ambassadors of Christ we are his
Servants called to witness to others about the Kingdom of God in love.
In an interview where Palin was asked who she would support for President she said: You know, if there are those who are out there willing to
serve, with good executive experience, who have that
servant's heart....
Technological reason
serves us best when it becomes the
servant of creative thinking and is directed toward life - fulfilling goals.
Though he is their «teacher and lord,» he is among them as a
servant, as one who
serves.
A good example: I've been playing a videogame of late with a combination Greek / fantasy pantheon in which the player - character is a very faithful
servant of a particular goddess, knows other gods exist (because killing them / beating them up is the main plot of the game), and winds up with an ally who can clearly see that the gods exist but only cares about following himself — so there's a mix there of misotheism with a few of the gods (they are there, but they're evil), faithful worship (
serving a good goddess), and nay theism («You gods are selfish jerks, I'm going my own way!»).