"Down through the centuries church leaders have studied the Gospels to discover patterns of leadership development that can be applied to their own context. Yet the word 'leader" does not appear in the Gospels... Could it be that leadership has more to do with leaming to follow than leaming to command, supervise, or manage? On right attitudes than on mastery of certain skills?... Many of the insights we need are embedded in the images which Jesus used to describe his followers."