Growing as an Enneagram Three: The AchieverSýnishorn

Humility in Leadership

With your ambition as a Three comes a desire to lead…and along with this desire is our fallen nature and propensity toward sin. As a result, it can be tempting to either lead with pride or fall to the other side and believe that you are incapable of being a leader.

The call of your holy ambition is for the good of others and for God’s glory to be known. To be effective at this requires humility and leadership. There is no space for making it about you or hiding from what God is calling you to do.

Humility takes action from a place of surrender and trust, faithfully walking out each step of obedience.

Jesus gave us a model to follow, and Luke 22:42 speaks directly to it: “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

God calls you to be an ambassador, which is a leadership position. Living as an ambassador of Christ is the model God created as the most effective way to make His message known. God wants you to make a difference in this world by spreading His love and His Word.

This leadership style is upside down from the hustle and drives we see in our society, which doesn’t see humility, gentleness, or patience as useful in leadership.

But as Christians, we are called to lead with humility and bear with one another. There is no climbing a ladder or getting to the top by pushing others down. There is only the ground-floor work of making a difference in the lives of everyone you know and meet.

While it may be hard to believe that leaders with humility can change the world, God clearly says this is the case. (See, for example, Proverbs 29:23; Matthew 11:29; 1 Peter 5:5.) There is no need to move to the other side of the country for it to happen. When we live out humility in our leadership, we are bringing Christ’s light to others.

God so loved the world that He sent His only Son. This is God’s will, and He desires it to be made known. When you act with humility, you don’t shrink away from your responsibilities but act with confidence. Bearing with one another may not feel like leadership, but this is the work of your Savior. 

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