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Signs of Harmful Leadership: Force, Manipulation, and Mutual Submission
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“The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness, you have ruled them.”
Is a leader leaving a trail of devastation? Human wreckage? Are people burning out? Are they walking away? Is there carnage?
Is there evidence of emotional or spiritual manipulation? And this can be really subtle and hard to spot, and we shouldn’t too readily accuse people of this. But once you’ve seen it, you’ll recognise the signs.
Do the leaders submit? In the Jerusalem Council that you see happening in Acts 15, there’s a decision that needs to be made over this question of circumcision and the Gentiles. And they all gather together to wrestle with the subject together. And they mutually submit to one another in order to make that decision.
Look at Proverbs 12 verse 15. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
