The sad reality is that more churches die because of leadership failures than theological arguments. Some leaders are too passive and insecure, which eventually means the church will never change and die. Other leaders are like dictators and believe they alone have the word from God. The vicious cycle is that most churches then overreact and shift the leadership culture to compensate for their pain. This becomes unbiblical and eventually the pain of the past is so great there is no hope for the future. I highly recommend this post by Ed Stetzer:
“I think leadership is an important issue that’s often overlooked. I know… you think I’m crazy. Leadership resources and speakers abound. But there’s a reason the best place to find leadership books is at a Goodwill or some other thrift store. Yep.
Secondhand stores are like leadership book archive vaults. Why? Well, there seems to be a pendulum that swings… and has swung. In the 1980’s there was much talk about leadership and there was a lot of people writing on it, speaking on it, and just great prominence on it. Leadership theories and ideas were influencing the church and the church was, in many ways, being shaped by that.”
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