{"id":12794,"date":"2015-06-28T22:47:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watchmanmedia.org\/?p=12794"},"modified":"2016-08-06T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T16:24:59","slug":"leadership-in-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=12794","title":{"rendered":"Leadership in the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14926\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LEADER-IMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"LEADER IMAGE\" width=\"800\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LEADER-IMAGE.jpg 800w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LEADER-IMAGE-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LEADER-IMAGE-768x418.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>It was about that time that the mother of the Zebedee brothers came with her two sons and knelt before Jesus with a request.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d Jesus asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said, \u201cGive your word that these two sons of mine will be awarded the highest places of honor in your kingdom, one at your right hand, one at your left hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jesus responded, \u201cYou have no idea what you\u2019re asking.\u201d And he said to James and John, \u201cAre you capable of drinking the cup that I\u2019m about to drink?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They said, \u201cSure, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jesus said, \u201cCome to think of it, you are going to drink my cup. But as to awarding places of honor, that\u2019s not my business. My Father is taking care of that.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the ten others heard about this, they lost their tempers, thoroughly disgusted with the two brothers. So Jesus got them together to settle things down. He said, \u201cYou\u2019ve observed how godless rulers throw their weight around, how quickly a little power goes to their heads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s not going to be that way with you. Whoever wants to be great must become a servant. Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave. That is what the Son of Man has done: He came to serve, not be served\u2014and then to give away his life in exchange for the many who are held hostage.\u201d (Matthew 20:20-31 MSG)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thomas Wynn talks about leadership in the Kingdom:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19847639\" width=\"760\" height=\"418\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source of image: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/leadership-is-lonely-and-it-should-be\" target=\"_blank\">The Gospel Coalition<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12794&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12794&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was about that time that the mother of the Zebedee brothers came with her two sons and knelt before Jesus with a request. \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d Jesus asked. She said, \u201cGive your word that these two sons of mine will be awarded the highest places of honor in your kingdom, one at your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discipleship","8":"wp-image-borders","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LEADER-IMAGE.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bgnN-3km","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}