Tuesday, November 1, 2011

middle-management for life

middle management is the worst (if that's you - I'm sorry)

you've climbed the corporate ladder, you've put in your time
you probably have a decent desk and possibly an office

someone's always telling you what to do, though you rarely have the authority to actually do it

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but there's something comfortable about the middle, isn't there?

- it's rather noncommittal
- you don't have to make big decisions
- you get to boss around other people, further down the ladder
- there's a sense of entitlement
- and so on

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it seems that in our attempt to find this 'american dream,' we've actually bought into middle-management Christianity Life:
- noncommittal, making few decisions, bossy, entitled and so on

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but this is not what we are called to and definitely not what we should aspire to be

we are called to be janitors (with all due respect)
- cleaning toilets
- gathering garbage
- scrubbing floors
- humbling ourselves

Jesus is a servant, yet God

...

what is too beneath you?
- cuz there's some toilets needing some serious scrubbing in Jesus' name

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may we take off our middle-management ties (pride), put on our work gloves (humility) and serve...because the secret is we're actually kings and queens in God's kingdom.

and get this...those we serve - they bear God's own image, deserving our utmost respect

1 comment:

Jon A said...

Thanks Tyson! Great words.