Jesus as an Exemplary Leader

This chapter explores John 13 utilizing the leadership framework of Kouzes and Posner’s (2012) The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Happen in Organizations. An exegetical analysis of John 13 was juxtaposed with Kouzes and Posner’s framework and provided principles for contemporary organizational leadership from a biblical perspective. Jesus’ leadership approach supports, often time in paradoxical ways, a modeling the way by charting a different path; inspires a shared vision of something greater; challenges the process by purposefully breaking norms; enables others to act through humble service; and encourages the heart through authenticity.