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Jason is the founder of Ignite Student Ministries, a dynamic ministry igniting youth, young adults and university students to passionately pursue Christ and transform society in high schools, work places and universities around the world.

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A Flawed Identity

Jason VanaJason Vana
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Photo Credit: Hamed Saber (Creative Commons)

Society tends to make leadership an indicator of our worth.

Leaders are seen as the cream of the crop.
They are revered as the most faithful.
They are considered the smart, wise and most dedicated.
They are more spiritual, more in tune to God and can be trusted to make important decisions.
They have dealt with their demons, learned how to overcome and are next to God in their holiness.

Leadership has become about who you are, not what you do.

It gives us value.
Makes us feel important.
Tricks us into believing we’re wanted, needed and have purpose.

And becomes the object of our desire.

We want to feel important.
We want to be valued.
We want others to look at us and think we’re smarter, more put together and somehow better than everyone else.

Leadership becomes intimately tied to our identity.

“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:26

When leadership becomes our identity, when it becomes our source of worth, when we look to a leadership role to fulfill us, make us feel like we’ve arrived and give us purpose, we lose sight of our true identity.

Sons and daughters of God.

We are first and foremost children of God.
Not leader. Not President. Not pastor.

No title will ever be good enough.
No position high enough.
No role, duty or authority important enough to leave us satisfied.

Leadership was never meant to be our identity.

It was never meant to be our source of security.
It cannot fulfill us, give us worth or a sense of purpose.

When we get caught up in the hype of leadership, we forfeit our true identity for something that can never complete us.
And we become leaders out of our own selfish desires, instead of a servant’s heart.

When have you allowed leadership to become part of your identity?

Jason is the founder of Ignite Student Ministries, a dynamic ministry igniting youth, young adults and university students to passionately pursue Christ and transform society in high schools, work places and universities around the world.