Reaching the Top
Robert Dawson
Mark 9:33-50
Cheryl Bachelder, who is the CEO of Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen and author of Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, shared her thoughts on servanthood in an interview this summer, 2016.
As a Christian one of the verses that shapes her approach to life and business is Philippians 2.3 that says, ''Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves.'' She keeps that verse on her daily calendar as a constant reminder because she knows that kind of life, focus and service does not come easily.
In the interview, ''I believe we are all born with an inner 2-year-old. And we'd really still like to be laying on the floor, kicking and screaming because we didn't get the candy bar we wanted. It's pretty hard-wired that we're self-absorbed little people. We learn to fake it but we're still pretty much that 2-year-old on the inside.'' [Religion and Liberty, ''Servant Leadership in a Louisiana Kitchen'' (Volume 26, Number 3)]
She hit the nail on the head. A large number of us still struggle with that inner 2-year-old.
I am 44 years old and I feel that most of the time I need to be wearing a pull-up and have a pacifier clipped to my collar. To put it plainly, I don't like it when things don't go my way and when they don't I have a sinful tendency to unleash my inner 2-year-old.
That grabby, selfish little toddler climbs to the surface more than I like and it creates problems. It affects my ministry, my wife, my kids and every other relationship in my life. It skews the way I look at life and feel about life. Before you throw rocks, they are deserved, be sure to take the pacifier out and the pull-ups off first.
Today we will see how Jesus responds to some pull-up wearing and pacifier toting disciples. Jesus is going to challenge and correct that deadly inner attitude that threatens the future of their ministry by ...
Robert Dawson
Mark 9:33-50
Cheryl Bachelder, who is the CEO of Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen and author of Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, shared her thoughts on servanthood in an interview this summer, 2016.
As a Christian one of the verses that shapes her approach to life and business is Philippians 2.3 that says, ''Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves.'' She keeps that verse on her daily calendar as a constant reminder because she knows that kind of life, focus and service does not come easily.
In the interview, ''I believe we are all born with an inner 2-year-old. And we'd really still like to be laying on the floor, kicking and screaming because we didn't get the candy bar we wanted. It's pretty hard-wired that we're self-absorbed little people. We learn to fake it but we're still pretty much that 2-year-old on the inside.'' [Religion and Liberty, ''Servant Leadership in a Louisiana Kitchen'' (Volume 26, Number 3)]
She hit the nail on the head. A large number of us still struggle with that inner 2-year-old.
I am 44 years old and I feel that most of the time I need to be wearing a pull-up and have a pacifier clipped to my collar. To put it plainly, I don't like it when things don't go my way and when they don't I have a sinful tendency to unleash my inner 2-year-old.
That grabby, selfish little toddler climbs to the surface more than I like and it creates problems. It affects my ministry, my wife, my kids and every other relationship in my life. It skews the way I look at life and feel about life. Before you throw rocks, they are deserved, be sure to take the pacifier out and the pull-ups off first.
Today we will see how Jesus responds to some pull-up wearing and pacifier toting disciples. Jesus is going to challenge and correct that deadly inner attitude that threatens the future of their ministry by ...
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