Servan’t Leadership: Cerminan Kepemimpinan Yesus Kristus untuk Pekerja Pastoral Awam

Abstract

This paper was compiled using the Library Research method. This paper is intended to provide Lay Pastoral Workers with insights into the servant leadership model based on the experiences of leaders, Church documents, and Scripture. The data presented in this paper are the result of a literature review. The author used various books, journals, articles, and related Catholic Church and Scripture documents to collect data for this study. Data analysis involved reduction, presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show that servant leadership is based on the Scriptures as found in the Gospel of Mark 10:42-43 (a servant leader), the Gospel of Luke 22:26-27 (a leader as a servant who humbles himself in serving others, and the Book of Hebrews 13:7;17 (a leader who is responsible for the people he leads). As a Lay Pastoral Worker, the spirit of leadership must also be based on Church documents, as called for in the Second Vatican Council in the document Apostolikam Aktuositatem that the laity must play a role in the work of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Therefore, a pastoral worker and as a leader of the people must have a good personality in carrying out their duties. Lay Pastoral Workers in serving must have a leadership spirit that is confident, passionate, courageous, sincere, responsible, disciplined, and capable of dealing with situations to serve the people of God. Being a leader who is not on the "leader's chair" but is in the midst of the people carrying out pastoral work for the kingdom of God, as Jesus did in leading His disciples and nations who received His teachings.