Christian Views of Leadership

There is far too much misleading “Christian” advice about leadership out there.

The Christian community is enchanted with the current leadership craze. Have you noticed? There is an eruption of “Christian” publications, associations, seminars, and sermons focusing on leadership.

A great deal of this “Christian” thinking about leadership is woefully unexamined, ignoring the deeply flawed behavioristic notions of personhood driving contemporary notions about leadership. Regrettably, far too many prominent Christian writers, leaders, and pastors recklessly ransack and adopt the latest leadership “flavor of the month,” casually baptize this defective notion about leadership by sprinkling it with a sloppily selected Bible verse, and then piously pronounces this view as “the” Christian view of leadership.

Consequently there is a vacuum of Christian thinking about leadership. The Christian community is notorious for “training the next generation of leaders” but turning out followers by the cage full – “rabbits” – as Solzhenitsyn might have called them.

It is time for a Christian view of leadership!