Biblical Foundations

Humility is considered a very important virtue in the Bible. Moses showed that humility is optimally possible by being singled out as the humblest person who ever lived. Accordingly, one of the Christian’s main duties is to walk humbly with God based on Micah 6:8. Jesus, too, declared in Matthew 18:4 (NKJV) that Christians should be humble people when he said: “Whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”  With certainty, both servant and Christian leadership require Christian humility. Ellen G. White, a renowned author, stated, “the nearer the Christian lives to God, the more he advances in divine illumination of mind. He has a more distinct sense of his own littleness, discerns his defects of character, and sees his duty in the light in which God presents it (White, 1892).”