High Muckamuck
Theme of the Week: Leadership Ingredients
Walter Trobisch
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
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High Muckamuck
Theme of the Week: Leadership Ingredients
Tuesday, September 10
Key Bible Verse: Don't try to act important, but enjoy the company of ordinary people (Romans 12:16). Bonus Reading:Hebrews 4:14-16
In Africa we lived in Rey Bouba's territory. He rarely left his palace. Most of his subjects had never seen their six-foot-six chief. It was difficult to get past his guards for an audience. Those who did, must approach with bowed heads and eyes to the ground.
Once Chief Bouba was sick and feared for his life. He sent and asked for me to give him a penicillin shot. Arriving, I had to cross a courtyard covered with white gravel, so that the bright sunlight blinded me. In the semidarkness of his throne room, he was entirely encased in white cloths. All I could see was the slit for his eyes.
But I can still see him whimpering as, with great delight, I punctured the soap bubble of his unapproachableness. To be untouchable is a defensive weapon of the chief that enables him to escape in honor when he feels inadequate.
A man set free doesn't need to hide behind a mask of inaccessibility. God securely holds his future. This gives him a contagious serenity. He encourages wholesome fun so his family members and coworkers don't take themselves too seriously. And if he hears a joke about himself that hits home, he laughs as heartily as anyone.
—Walter Trobisch in All a Man Can Be
My Response: A mask I tend to hide behind is. …
Thought to Apply: A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
—Jules Ormont (motivational speaker)
Adapted from: All a Man Can Be (InterVarsity, 1983) by permission.
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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September/October 2002,Vol. 5,No. 5
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