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The Power Question: Checks and Balances are a Theological Issue
Jim Wallis

Editors note: This is part four of an eight-part series exploring
the eight Jesus questions all of us must face, highlighted in Jim
Wallis's new book Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to
Reclaim Jesus (HarperOne), available now. These next eight weeks
will help us go deeper than the headlines, to find our way back
to Jesus in the midst of this intensive and exhausting news
cycle. 

Want to hear this in an audio format instead? We just launched an
eight-episode podcast series called Reclaiming Jesus
Now that features Allison Trowbridge and William Matthews
speaking with Jim Wallis about these questions and their
relevance today.

How is power wielded in the world today, and what does leadership
look like? If we're following Jesus, what should it look like?

It feels like, over the last month, hardly a day has gone by
without a new revelation of corruption and abuse of power by
President Donald Trump. Whether it is the increasingly-clear quid
pro quo in which military aid to Ukraine was conditioned on the
Ukrainian president announcing an investigation to damage one of
Trump's political rivals, or the now-abandoned plan to host
world leaders at Trump's Florida golf club at taxpayer expense,
we see a leader so obsessed with power and himself that he gives
no thought to warping the foreign policy of the United States and
the use of taxpayer dollars to serve his personal finances and
political fortunes. But what did Jesus teach about leadership and
power?

Jesus' disciples were arguing one evening about which of them
was the greatest among them. Jesus patiently explained to them
that they had to turn their entire notion of greatness, power,
and leadership on its head:

"The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those in
authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you;
rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and
the leader like one who serves. For who is greater, the one who
is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the
table? But I am among you as one who serves" (Luke
22:2527).

The contrast could not be greater between the way of "the kings
of the Gentiles" (meaning the way of the world) and the way of
Jesus. What does it mean to be the greatest as one who serves? I
think this deep contrast to the way of the world is actually the
foundation for our idea of public service.

Learn more about Jim Wallis' book here. 

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