Is leadership really biblcial?

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[blonde]

I found this article very interesting and wished I knew this years ago:

http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/is-%e2%80%9cleadership%e2%80%9d-biblical-a-few-reasons-to-say-%e2%80%9cno-%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reclaimingthemission%2Fgo+%28Reclaiming+the+Mission%29&utm_content=Twitter

[blonde]

If we took our own responsibility rather than doing what the pastor says all the time, we may have never entered the doors of a GCM church ever.  We wanted to be guided and molded.  We were the followers, and not a leader in our own life. 

Sad I came to this realization later in life. 

I still think pastors are needed, but the kind of leaders GCx offers, I am hard-pressed to feel they are any good, even if they go to seminary.

[Huldah]

Well, when I was at GC, they actually preached sermons on how leaders were not to lord it over the congregation. How they were supposed to be gentle and reasonable. And how they themselves were examples of this, unlike the leaders of other churches.

I was so young and clueless. I bought into it, completely. After all, surely they would never have the gall to get up there and preach against abusive leadership if they themselves were being abusive. Right?

I don't have my old notebook handy at the moment, but a few months ago I went through it and counted how many of the sermons were about leadership. It was a pretty hefty percentage. At the time, the emphasis on doctrine (even though the topics were limited and repetitive) was a welcome contrast to the church I'd been brought up in. Now the whole idea of leaders obsessed with leadership just seems odd and narcissistic.