When I see pastors who are scared I want to tell them, “Just lead. The leadership or lack of leadership is just so much fear of people. I think that dynamic alone is a big part of why the church is where it is. All of these bible heroes David and Goliath and we love to preach those sermons and draw these parallels and then we’re scared to confront people. The irony is we stand up and talk about Daniel in the lion’s den but then we won’t even confront elders. That’s not going to change but it requires a lot of courage otherwise we start bending toward the people that hired us and we’re in trouble. Consequently to lead a church you just have to have a lot of courage because the group to which you’re saying “follow me” can get together after you leave and fire you. It’s an environment that is not conducive to leadership in some ways. The people hire the leader and say, “We’ll follow you unless we don’t like the way you’re leading us, then we’ll get us another leader.” What other organization can the clients and the customers hire and fire the leader? So the church is set up upside-down. Here’s the pastor who’s been hired I tell our business guys all the time, “You’d never go to work for an organization where the customers can hire and fire the president of the company they bought products from.” But that’s the church world. You know if you’re scared of someone you can’t lead them you can hardly even influence them. They’re scared of their people, they’re scared of deacons, they’re scared, they’re scared, they’re scared. Speaking from my limited view I feel like so much of the problem with pastors is they are just scared to death.
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