With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power Part 2

With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power, Part 2
Biblical Leadership
 
Okay, there is no Part 1 with this title, but it’s the honorary title for yesterday’s post. If you haven’t read it, I’d suggest reading it first. 
 
Let me approach today’s post by trying off the cuff for a personal statement of faith: 
 
 

1. God is.
2. The world is.
3. I am. 
4. Jesus died on the cross for me (and you). I believe it, so I’m forgiven. 
5. Repentance follows belief.
6. The Holy Spirit lives in me.
7. I am an image bearer of God. 
8. I am a steward of all God has given me and made me to be.
9. I am an individual with a hierarchy of values in me. 
10. I am responsible for my life and for attaining those values. 
11. I interact with others through a process of trading value for value. 
12. God says, “Take what you want, but you must pay for it.” 
13. Sometimes, God miraculously intervenes, but usually, He delegates my life to me. 
14. I have things to achieve. 
15. If I want to achieve tremendous things, then it requires the help of others. 
16. Having the help of others can usually fall into the category of trading. For instance, I hire contractors every day to help me in my writing business. I don’t require them to buy into a vision, only to want to do the work for the money I’m paying. 

 
Surely, this is not my whole statement of faith. (I love the Bible, prayer, Church, and many other statements that pertain to my faith.) 
 
But on the topic of leadership, this will do for right now, although you will see it is incomplete because I’ve hardly said a thing about it. 
 
I start by saying that although I am an individual who can live and act alone, it is a considerable benefit to trade with others. 
 
I’m not just trading money but love, affection, etc, in reciprocal relationships. 
 
It occurs to me now that I am a little bit messed up after reading Amanda Montell’s book Cultish. 
 
She writes about how cults and businesses use language to get people to do stuff. Stuff ranging from buying expensive yoga pants to committing atrocities or mass suicide. 
 
Do you see why I’m being so careful? With great power comes great responsibility. And with great responsibility comes great power. 
 
And why should anyone have great power over others? 
 
This is the question we are trying to answer. We have not gotten very far today, but let’s stop anyway for now. See you tomorrow.