This post, exposing a controlling model of spiritual leadership and proposing a more Christ-like alternative, borrows from chapter 5 of “Learning Leadership Lessons from 2 Corinthians.” The tendency toward dictatorial leadership is nothing new. Spiritual leaders have always been tempted to try to control and coerce people for one reason or another. The sincere, albeit …
Comforted comforters…
2 Corinthians 1:3-11 This is chapter 2 in my “Learning Leadership Lessons from 2 Corinthians” that you can find here. 2 Corinthians contains more references to “trouble” and “tribulation” that any other book in the New Testament. But it also contains more in it about God’s “comfort” than any other. While the term “tribulation” is …
God hurts too (Part 2 of 3)
My last post was about how God hurts with us. When we hurt, he hurts too. Here are a couple more thoughts about that. I ran across something that the prophet Isaiah said (Isaiah 63:9). I’ve included several versions of it since each carries its own sort of soothing nuance. In all their suffering he …
