Until you shift your mentality from being a leader “over” others to a resource “serving” others …

You will never “get” relational participatory church like the New Testament teaches.

You know:

With ministry one to another for the mutual building up of each other through the many diverse gifts God distributes among us …

Rather than some mono-church centered around you and your own gifts.

Plus you’ll become a bottleneck to Christ’s Headship …

Rather than humbly equipping others to exceed you in His multi-gifted, multi-functional, multi-part Body.

“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave – just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:25-28)

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant.” (Philippians 2:5-7)