In Charge: Finding the Leader Within You by Myles Munroe

In Charge: Finding the Leader Within You by Myles Munroe

Author:Myles Munroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: REL000000
ISBN: 9780446544856
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2008-10-17T00:00:00+00:00


A Failure to Lead

He saw humanity as helpless— lacking the capacity to generate change. Helpless means that you live under circumstances that imprison your hope and suffocate your will. This means you not only have problems, but you also cannot seem to do anything about them. The first-century crowds could do nothing to drive away the occupying Romans or relieve their heavy taxation. They could not wish away their diseases.

Jesus identified the cause of humanity’s central problem: they are “like sheep.” He did not say they are sheep, but that they are “like sheep without a shepherd.” He could have said, “They are without leadership. They were in a poor state because they had no leaders or had defective leaders.”

It is interesting that, in this instance, Jesus did not say the cause of their helplessness was sin or evil. This was not a “religious” description. He said it was the absence of effective, appropriate leadership.

Jesus Christ made this observation two thousand years ago in a culture where many people held powerful positions of leadership— the teachers of the law, priests, the Pharisees, King Herod and the Roman governors, Caesar. Those people had titles, positions, authority, power, and money, but He concluded that real leadership was absent. The ideas of philosophers such as Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle had been around for seven hundred years by then. Yet, Jesus said, in effect, “The people have no leader.”

The leaders of the day had— either by design or default— failed the people. They had led them into a state of harassment and helplessness. The source of the people’s condition was the absence, lack, or abuse of true leadership. After identifying the problem, Jesus told His twelve top leadership trainees that plenty of work was available and necessary, but few workers were on hand and ready to do it. Few were stepping up. Among other things, He was telling His students they needed to be workers in the harvest field— among the harassed and helpless humanity in need of true leadership.



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