Role
We meet new people every season in our lives. As time goes on, I realized there were no permanent people or groups that you daily or weekly converse with. People accumulate knowledge and different approaches in life from various perspectives. By nature, they tend to share it with others and sometimes showcase how they were brilliant enough to have gone through the difficulty or proud that they were able to announce how to display their resourcefulness and expect others to follow their advice.
As leaders, we ought to be able to discern what to speak, when and how we deliver it in certain situations to the people we're leading. Our heart for them should align with what the apostle Paul admonishes. He states, "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."1 (1 Corinthians 11:1) Our role as leaders is not to act, and think that we are superior to them but to be role models in helping them to follow Christ in accordance with the bible.
"Don't tell people how to live their lives not our own opinion and biases"2 or "diskarte" in Tagalog because that is not what the bible says means in discipleship. I would argue that it will make discipleship prone to be deficient. People are radical creatures who have the capability to think of themselves, if they sense an attempt to impose the leader's view on certain things upon them, the walls of hostility start to build up. Sensing the boundaries is crucial for one's relationship with each others to grow.
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