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Empower Servant Leadership11/23/2020 For 7 weeks in November and December, we invite all members of the presbytery to pray for the revitalization of our churches and presbytery. Our weekly prayers are based upon the 7 marks of a vital congregation. The focus of this week’s prayer is Empower Servant Leadership. Whose job is it to help a church thrive? Is it the pastor’s job? Is it the responsibility of a few who have monopolized power? Vital congregations empower all in the congregation to lead in a servant fashion. Ephesians 4:11-12 says that God gave the various leaders of the community of faith (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers) to equip the church for the work of ministry. Pastors are not called to do the work for the church, but to help the church do the work. Empowering servant leaders acknowledges that leading the church and doing the work of the church is not about holding power, it is about serving. Servant leaders not only serve the congregation, but ultimately Christ and Christ’s purposes in the world. In essence, this mark is about identifying, nurturing, and supporting the use of spiritual gifts of all people to serve. Congregations that empower servant leaders do not burn out their volunteers because they consistently seek to connect congregants with ways to serve that match their gifts. This mark acknowledges that all voices and people are important, and it is noticeable when people are absent or excluded from leadership. To read more about Presbyterian churches empowering young adults to lead, visit https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/vital-congregations-host-zoom-conversation-on-empowering-servant-leadership/. Let us pray: Living God, we give you thanks and praise for the new things you are doing among us. Especially we thank you for Jesus’ example of humble service. Living God, by the gifts of your Spirit, help us to bear witness to the risen Lord by loving and serving one another. Living God, in the great mystery of our faith receive us each night and revive us each day, that we may be dead to sin and alive to you; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
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