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Narcissism in Church Leadership: The Need for Real Accountability
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We, of course, are fallen, and that means that sin has entered into us, and that sin is not acceptable to God. But we are.
So narcissism presents as this excessive self love, but really it is this terrible defense against shame for a broken person.
So narcissism can be found in the church and that shouldn’t surprise us because the church is full of people, and people are all sinners, including and especially me. Now, leadership positions within a church, they naturally, though, not necessarily rightly, they generate authority, a position of admiration, a platform, spiritual legitimacy, visibility, affirmation. And we can see that these are all things that the narcissist craves. Especially admiration. Especially legitimacy.
So they attract narcissists, these positions, because the narcissist craves this. And that kind of position can be really dangerous if the church does not have built in structures of true accountability.
