Essay On Human Service Leadership
Can a self-serving leader become a servant leader?
Write a paper stating your position. If such a change can be made, describe how it can be accomplished.
Yes, I believe a self-serving leader can become a servant leader. I say this from personal experience. In the text it spoke about the “Scrooge phenomenon,” which deals with a near death experience that causes a person to get in touch with their own mortality and realize that they life is more about what you give that what you get. (p120)
While serving in Iraq I experienced many near death experiences, and got divorced to my first wife due to her infidelity. As a result to these things returning home I was a mess and so I decided to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. I really got to a bad point, and finally went to treatment and was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Months passed, I got clean I divorced my first wife, and I enrolled into Anderson University in Human Service program with concentration in …show more content…
I say that, because since then God has sent many signs telling me that He has other plans for me. Several Ministers whom I didn’t even know told me that,” God has a calling for me into ministry.” Even as I was growing up I’ve been told that I was called to be in ministry. I also read Rick Warren’s book Purpose Driven Life, and I realized that I went through the things I did because God has been preparing me for something greater. At the time of the test and trials I was going through I had no idea of God’s purpose for me, but now afterwards I realize that it’s not about me, but God, and the reaching souls. My direction in my studies now is for me to get my Masters of Ministry Degree following Undergraduate Degree, which I am scheduled to complete December of next
Write a paper stating your position. If such a change can be made, describe how it can be accomplished.
Yes, I believe a self-serving leader can become a servant leader. I say this from personal experience. In the text it spoke about the “Scrooge phenomenon,” which deals with a near death experience that causes a person to get in touch with their own mortality and realize that they life is more about what you give that what you get. (p120)
While serving in Iraq I experienced many near death experiences, and got divorced to my first wife due to her infidelity. As a result to these things returning home I was a mess and so I decided to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. I really got to a bad point, and finally went to treatment and was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Months passed, I got clean I divorced my first wife, and I enrolled into Anderson University in Human Service program with concentration in …show more content…
I say that, because since then God has sent many signs telling me that He has other plans for me. Several Ministers whom I didn’t even know told me that,” God has a calling for me into ministry.” Even as I was growing up I’ve been told that I was called to be in ministry. I also read Rick Warren’s book Purpose Driven Life, and I realized that I went through the things I did because God has been preparing me for something greater. At the time of the test and trials I was going through I had no idea of God’s purpose for me, but now afterwards I realize that it’s not about me, but God, and the reaching souls. My direction in my studies now is for me to get my Masters of Ministry Degree following Undergraduate Degree, which I am scheduled to complete December of next