{"id":199,"date":"2005-10-24T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/10\/24\/servant-leadership-principles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:33:23","slug":"servant-leadership-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/10\/24\/servant-leadership-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Servant Leadership Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Matt 23:-12<\/span><br>Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, saying: <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. <br>&#8220;They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men&#8217;s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. <br>&#8220;But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. <br>&#8220;They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues, and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men. <br>&#8220;But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. <br>&#8220;Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. <br>&#8220;Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. <br>&#8220;But the greatest among you shall be your servant. <br>&#8220;Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt 23:-12Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, saying: &#8220;The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. &#8220;They tie up heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}