Comments on: leadership and torture

by: Richard

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:56:27 +0000

Do I read in this article and responses a comparison between the communist takeover of China (or Cambodia or Hungary )and the church when leadership is abused? If so, should we not be careful in our cricism? Speak to those from those countries to hear the difference.
If safe guards are required, then guidelines or rules are required. Once they are in place,then what happens?

by: Marilyn Singh

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:35:42 +0000

As you point out David the shifts to seizing power are so subtle at first. My personal bias is that in most church cultures this shift of power in the hands of leaders has become acceptable church culture. What safeguards can we put in place that don’t violate the values and benefits of spiritual leadership?

by: David Hayward

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:36:59 +0000

The problem begins, doesn’t it, in the “seizing” of it. No, even earlier, in the simple desire for it.

by: Brian Metzger

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:14:36 +0000

Best of all is the phrase those who sieze authority like to use:
“It’s for your own good.”

We would like to crank out a predictable product when really it’s more like planting a garden, no two plants grow the same, need exactly the same thing or respond exactly the same way to similar stimulus.

It’s like at any church meeting, small group or otherwise, where we ask/tell people to sit down and get quiet so we can now have some fellowship. We kill the natural and then put plastic plants in their place.

Thank God he has a soft spot for fools and little children!