Abstract
According to Beadles, the purpose of his article is to “examine servant-leadership and to propose an extension that would bring the theory into better alignment with the Scriptures” (Beadles, 2000). Even the title of the article would lead the reader to suppose that his purpose is extension of the theory. However, if Beadles is correct and the theory is not biblical, there is no point extending it—one can only start over. I believe this is what Beadles’ work actually leads us to. Rather than being an extension of servant-leadership, Beadles’ work attempts to point out a fatal flaw in the theory as it stands and then describes what a replacement theory should look like.
