Church Leadership

There's something bothering me about the leadership of my church that trigger me to consider speaking up. But talking about wrong doing of church leadership is usually unhealthy and seen as taking things in our own hands. Wrong doing of leaderships are supposed to receive punishment from God and not man, as God said, "Vengence is mine, I will repay" (Rom 12:19). So, I decided not to write any Share-A-Thought for the month of July.

However, for personal learning, I just want to add a few lines here about what's wrong with the church leadership. Christian leadership is different from secular leadership. How so? Jesus said," You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many" (Mat 20:25-28). Wow! Where in world do you see a leader becoming a servant, except Jesus Christ who washes his disciples feet.

What does this mean practically to us Christians? This mean that Christian leaders should not have special privileges. After all, which servants have special privileges except those who are first? One special privileges is car-parking lots. In fact, the whole church car-parking lots are all reserved for Pastors, Elders and special important people, those who they think are first. Any visitors who walk into the church will not fail to see many parking lots with designated vehicles' numbers. It just doesn't look like a church but a country club. For a Christian leader to be a servant mean that he has no rights to spend the church money like his own, after all, he is a servant and servants can't use the master's money with freedom. Here, we see the church funds being used till it is negative and in deficit. Surely, a servant must give account of how the master money is being used.

But if Christian leaders are servants and has no privileges, then who want to be leaders?
Hands up, all who still do!