ON “SPIRITUAL MATURITY”
Servant leadership takes spiritual maturity for leadership assertiveness. Jacob was ninety-seven years old when he finally recognised the truth that spiritual maturity takes a lifetime encounter. What? But only after the Angel of the Lord had dislocated his hip joint! Only after a lifetime of trying to do it himself did Jacob cease his struggle. And until Jacob ‘slept with his fathers’, his expensive limp was an ever-present reminder in his flesh. Jacob found no shortcuts to maturity, no shortcuts…