To lead is to serve. Conversely, to serve is to lead. And if either of these elements are removed from the equation, we’ll soon find that we’re doing neither.

If God is going to be all that He is, I must reach a point where I am emptied of all that I am. It’s only then that the fullness of God has space in the emptiness of me.

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

Leadership must embody servanthood, for without it leadership will become the embodiment of our selfish agendas. And leadership of that sort will lead us to places that none of us want to go to.

Real victory is based on surrender to the right things, while failure is based on the unwillingness to surrender to anything.

Sacrifice is the giving of self so that I don’t die in the service of self.

If I am not a servant to others, by process of elimination I am then a servant to myself. And that serves no one.