Young Adult Resource People
1 Timothy 4:12 "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young
but set an example for the believers in speech,
in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
Young Adult Resource People
1 Timothy 4:12 Submit any resources that would be useful to YARPs. (Directions, Songs, etc . . .)
1. The servant/leader is servant first, to whom followers grant leadership after they have been well served.
2. The servant/leader's openness to inspiration and insight provides vision and direction.
3. Invites others to go along and trusts them to do so.
4. Always knows and can articulate the bigger goal, the vision, the dream, which excites followers' imagination and sustains their spirits.
5. Is an intent listener, knowing that genuine listening both builds strength in others and provides information for problem solving.
6. Can take the abstract idea and facilitate the hearer's "leap of imagination", drawn from the hearer's own personal experience so it all makes sense.
7. Can systematically neglect the less important while choosing to do the more important.
8. Knows when to withdraw and regroup or take time for reorientation.
9. Accepts Person unqualifiedly; never rejects a person, buy may reject performance.
10. Empathizes with others by being able to get into their shoes. Genuine interest in and affection for the followers.
11. Can tolerate imperfection in self and* others.
12. Uses own intuitive insight to bridge the gap in available information to make decisions, and has good record of right decisions. Knows when to decide.
13. Possesses foresight about what is going to happen when in the future, and the ethical resolve to act on that while action is still possible.
14. Thorough preparation for a situation, with faith that if one releases the analytical thought processes, a solution will appear from the creative deeps.
15. Ability to be on two levels of consciousness always: 1) in the real world, involved and responsible; and 2) detached and standing outside the real world, seeing it in the long sweep of history and future.
16. Is aware of life and the environment in a way that gives own intuitive computers a lot of data to work with.
17. Believes that in the stress of real fife one can compose oneself in a way that permits the creative process to provide answers. An inner serenity.
18. Persuasion, rather than coercion, convinces one to change.
19. Knows who he or she is able to be, own person, choosing own role.
20. Perseverance - one step at a time toward the goal in spite of frustrations.
21. Can conceptualize change and instill the spirit to work for change in those who have to accomplish the change.
22. Can wait until the group of people can define their own need for wholeness or healing.
23. The servant/leader is motivated for work by own need for wholeness or healing.
24. Believes that only in community is an individual heated and made whole.
25. Views institutions as necessary to our survival, but believes they must become people-building institutions, not people-destroying institutions.
26. Understand that those leaders (trustees) who stand outside the institution but who are charged with seeing that the institution is making progress toward its goal are the very leaders who have the greatest potential for raising the quality of the whole society. They need to be servant/leaders.
27. Recognizes coercive power because he/she has been exposed to it and knows its bitterness. He or she could use it but chooses not to because it diminishes the followers.
28. Knows that change must start inside oneself, not "out there"; that all problems are inside oneself, not "out there".
29. Recognizes "the enemy" as strong natural servants who have the potential to lead, but do not lead, or who choose to follow a nonservant.
30. Recognizes that preparation to lead must become a top priority.
Summarized from "The Servant as Leader" by Robert K. Greenleaf,
Center for Applied Studies, 17 Dunster Street Cambridge, MA 02138,
1970. Used by permission.
Congregational Workbook, Volunteerism in the Church Workshops, The Division
for Life and Mission in the Congregation, ALC, and the Division for Parish Services,
LCA.