Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, we'll continue to listen through the 12 principles from Paul's new book on pastoral leadership.

Lead, 12 gospel principles for leadership in the church. For the first six

principles, check out the Paul Tripp podcast episode 123. The seventh principle says this.

A call to leadership in the church is a call to a life of willing sacrifice and service.

Principle seven, servants. You see that in Mark 9, Jesus is just, for the first time,

talked in the most specific way about his impending death. And he's walking with the disciples, and he notices the disciples behind him are

arguing. And so he says, what are you arguing about? These are the leaders that he's going to

entrust the move of the gospel around the world to.

And they're embarrassed to answer, and finally the answer comes out there arguing about

who's going to be greatest in the kingdom.

Now, isn't that amazing?

Rather than discussing the fact that Jesus was leaving, how unthinkable that would be, rather than being sad,

they're jockeying for the best position in the kingdom. That's us.

And so the call to servanthood and the sacrifices and suffering of that

has to be held before a leadership community at all because we're not called to mastery.

We're called to servanthood.

When success happens, what often happens, what often takes place is we move, these steps are small and subtle from a place of

servanthood to a spirit of entitlement.

We've done that because we've taken credit for things we could have never earned or produced on our own.

We start thinking of ourselves as leaders as being deserving.

And as our people as being consumers, and we think of the things we deserve, and all of

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