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Ephesians 5:1 (NLT):
“Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.”
Paul writes one of the most audacious instructions in all of Scripture in a single sentence. He does not say try to be good, or make an effort to follow the rules. He says imitate God. The Greek word is mimetes — deliberate, close-up replication. The kind of imitation that requires you to study the original carefully enough to reproduce its most important features.

This book is an attempt to do that study. Specifically, it examines ten leadership qualities visible in the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth — qualities drawn directly from Scripture — and applies each of them to the full range of contexts in which we lead: families, churches, businesses, teams, and communities.
Jesus was not a CEO. He was not a pastor in the modern institutional sense. He was something rarer: a leader whose influence outlasted every empire, institution, and organization that surrounded him, and did so precisely because of how he led. The qualities examined in these chapters are not inspirational ideals. They are observable patterns that shaped real people in real situations, and they translate across every leadership context you will face.

Read this as a leader. Mark what challenges you. Come back to the passages. And take seriously the possibility that the way of Jesus is not just spiritually admirable but practically superior to most of what our culture calls good leadership.