Question 12 12. We are trying to hold precisely these two things in Biblical balance, namely, leadership and servanthood. It would be contrary to Christ if we said that servanthood cancels out leadership. Jesus is not dismantling leadership, He is defining it.
Leaders are to be servants in sacrificially caring for the souls of the people.
But this does not make them less than leaders, as we see in the words obey and submit . Jesus was no less leader of the disciples when He was on His knees washing their feet than when He was giving them the Great Commission.