Maverick's leadership

 **Spoiler alert: Top Gun: Maverick!!! Don't read if you haven't watched the movie.

    Several themes are evident in the film but one thing that truly stood out to me: is training, leading, and equipping the next generation. The first moments of Maverick teaching the elite aviators started off with a shaky relationship. During lectures, Maverick was portrayed as an expert teacher fulfilling his given duties as instructing the models, and theories of air combat with some hostility to the students. A father and children relationship was never observed. There was no harmony, love, or genuine care. At first, he was hesitant just to become an instructor. He wanted to be on the front lines and he had to learn how to let it go and pass the baton to the next generation.

    Later on Maverick decided to go to the beach and have fun with his students. It was an engagement opportunity to enter their world and build trust and relationships. His superior asked him, "So why are we playing games?" and he responded, "You said to create a team so here's the team".1

    The initial plan was only his students were supposed to go to the mission field. There was a sudden change and Maverick joined them to accomplish the goal. "Established leaders and emerging leaders are supposed to WALK TOGETHER - cross the finish line together".2

    Relating this one to the great commission which is our mission field. Jesus didn't leave us empty-handed. He is walking with us continuously until the finish line. ".. And surely I am with you, to the very end of the age".3 Even prior to his ascension he assured that promise to his disciples, "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you".4



Footnotes:

1 Top Gun: Maverick Film
2 Cunanan, Fer. The next generation. Sermon at ENCM, Mississauga, ON, June 5, 2022.
3 BibleGateway. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+28%3A20&version=NIV (Accessed on June 10, 2022)
4 BibleGateway. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A18&version=NIV(Accessed on June 10, 2022)







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