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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of Nance's text "God's Armor Bearer". The qualities of effective followers are enumerated. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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be a good follower who supports and furthers the goals of his or her leader. At first, this concept might run contrary to Western conceptions of personal freedom and dignity,
but close readers will recognize the fact that the act of servitude is central to the character of Jesus, upon whose model all of Christians are obligated to model themselves.
By invoking the metaphor of an ancient "armorbearer", Nance explores how quality followers who can faithfully promote the (allegedly) God-granted missions of Christian leaders are one of the most sorely
needed elements in modern Christian society. One of the primary points established by Nance over the course of the text is the metaphor
of the "armorbearer", the symbol from which the book itself draws its title. In that the book seeks to establish a framework for providing meaningful and productive service to those
individuals identified as being leaders in the service of Gods will, Nance develops this framework by envisioning such servants as "armorbearers", a reference to figures in the Old Testament who,
despite a lack of recognition and fame and personal power, nonetheless achieved distinction and some form of honor by boldly accompanying their masters into combat, carrying their shields and armor
as needed (Nance, 2003). The purpose of such individuals, naturally, was to provide protection for their masters, in the same way that Nance argues that the most important role a
modern Christian can fill is providing some needed service to those Christians who occupy leadership roles. Nance acknowledges that this metaphor establishes an altruistic sense of servility as the primary
desirable characteristic in Christian followers, or the cultivation of a type of "servant-leader" who works to fulfill the goals and ambitions of Christian leaders and pastors (and by extension, presumably,
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