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International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Abstract

Robert Greenleaf believed the best leadership results from a desire to serve others (Greenleaf, 1991). Servant-leaders approach others with humble spirits, seeking to serve rather than to be served. In his essay The Servant as Leader, Greenleaf (1991) asserted, "Not everything that is old and worn, or even corrupt, can be thrown away. Some of it has to be rebuilt and used again. So it is with the words serve and lead" (p. 1). For that reason, the message of the "leader-as-servant" (Greenleaf, 1998, p. 4) exemplifies the spirit of faith-based correctional volunteers. As advanced by John MacArthur (1994) in Reckless Faith, discernment, the process of testing everything, holding fast to what is good, abstaining from every form of evil, is drawn from 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 and promoted by faith-based volunteers. Throughout jails and prisons, discerning faith-based volunteers neither tell inmates what to think nor condemn those who do not think the same as themselves. By sharing their multiplicity of faiths, these servantleaders serve as a final refu

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