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Every Monday I will begin to post some of the more interesting things that I am reading in the Blogosphere or in print. Here it goes for this week. Enjoy! I did!

Over at The Batterson Blog, Mark Batterson wrote an interesting article on how he sees influence being redefined.
In “Is your behavior damaging trust“, George Ambler at The Practice of Leadership highlights an the 25 behaviors that contribute to building mistrust on a team. These are insights George pulled from an article in Management-issues.
“Become a better leader with 30 day experiments” is another good post that George Ambler gleaned from and article in Management-issues. It is well worth the read. It would be interesting to hear what some of you were able to do in 30 days.

This post is going to be quick, and it is going to pose a question. Who is training servant leaders? As I think about the pastors that I have served with, and the churches that I have come into contact with that question rings in my mind. Who is training servant leaders?

The asking of the question shouldn’t be viewed as an indictment against any person or organization. Without a doubt there are servants, and even servant leaders in many of the places that I have travelled to, and been blessed to interact with. But I believe that the fact that a ministry has servant leaders in it, is separate from whether they are training servant leaders. This is particularly the case in many neo-pentecostal, apostolic, and charismatic churches. These ministries do well at training servants for leaders, or people to serve leadership, but are slack in training servant leaders. To know what I mean when I speak of servant leaders, see my earlier post “Servant Leadership Defined.” In brief let me simply say that leaders should be servants first.

Just a quick post that I will follow up on later. Right now ponder the question, and add your thoughts. Who is training servant leaders?

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Who Is Training Servant Leaders?