Be Teachable

"Good leadership requires a leader who is willing to learn the specifics of leadership context, who is willing to address the conflicts between values people say they hold and the reality they face" (Willimon 400). The hive of pride can hide within the depths of human ego. It keeps leaders from looking towards the future in an adaptive way. Being unteachable prevents transformation and inflates a leader's ego to the point where any doctrine of eschatology becomes self serving and shortsighted. A leader in such a position will be suffocated and cut off from developmental changes that reproduce healthy leaders. Should any theologically sound leader be found among such offspring it's very possible that they will fight against and consume anything that threatens the hive. A leader willing to learn is a leader that does not look at eschatology egocentrically. It's not about that leader, their ministry, and their production as much as it is about God's plan, mankind's hope in that plan, and the ability to tap into a kingdom-mind rather than the hive-mind of ego. Looking to the end, to the plan, and to the means is very much eschatological. Good leaders allow themselves to be drawn into God's overall plan. Jesus said in Mark 10:44, "and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all". This is a direct blow to the hive of an egocentric leader. Viewing leadership as a service, a ministry, while keeping the end and plan in perspective is what keeps leadership in Christianity from becoming cult like, self serving, and tyrannical. Our king is a servant, and we see that in Philippians 2 this mindset leads to an exaltation that far outweighs any current reward.