{"id":90175,"date":"2024-01-06T10:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90175"},"modified":"2024-01-06T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T17:49:56","slug":"this-ancient-leader-was-a-servant-leader-who-put-the-good-of-the-community-way-ahead-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/01\/06\/this-ancient-leader-was-a-servant-leader-who-put-the-good-of-the-community-way-ahead-of-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"This ancient leader was a servant leader, who put the good of the community way ahead of himself"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nAs a bit of context here…<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>fter the Jewish people had been exiled to various places, the walls of Jerusalem lay in ruins until the fifth century B.C.E.. <\/b>At that point, a man named Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem as the provincial governor and completed the repairs of the walls. The verses below really stuck out at me in regards to what a leader should<\/em> behave\/look\/be like. He was a servant leader, not<\/em> demanding choice treatment, not squeezing the people for every last drop, and not using his position to treat himself extra right.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t like to get political on this blog, as I already lose a great deal of readership due to including matters of faith. But today’s leaders (throughout all kinds of organizations) need to learn from Nehemiah’s example, regardless of whatever their beliefs\/faiths may be.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nehemiah 5:14-19 New International Version<\/strong><\/a> (emphasis by DSC)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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14\u00a0<\/sup>Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,\u00a0when I was appointed to be their governor\u00a0in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year\u2014twelve years\u2014neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a015\u00a0<\/sup>But the earlier governors\u2014those preceding me\u2014placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels[a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God\u00a0I did not act like that.<\/span>\u00a016\u00a0<\/sup>Instead,\u00a0I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we[b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0did not acquire any land.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

17\u00a0<\/sup>Furthermore, a hundred and fifty Jews and officials ate at my table, as well as those who came to us from the surrounding nations.<\/span>\u00a018\u00a0<\/sup>Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry\u00a0were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

19\u00a0<\/sup>Remember\u00a0me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From DSC: As a bit of context here… After the Jewish people had been exiled to various places, the walls of Jerusalem lay in ruins until the fifth century B.C.E.. At that point, a man named Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem as the provincial governor and completed the repairs of the walls. The verses below really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,425,95,500,234,419,74,377,480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faith","category-global-globalization","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-history","category-ideas-teaching","category-leadership","category-religion","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90205,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175\/revisions\/90205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}