A reason for democracy is the abject failure of every other form of human government. When human leaders abuse or dishearten us, at least in a democracy we can vote them back out of office. The great weakness of democracy is that there is a constant need to change leadership, because the next person we vote in will only disappoint us too. On the way to the cross, we read a litany of human leadership failures. Roman and Jewish leadership was brutal, vicious and double-dealing. Even Church leadership that Jesus had trained for three long years failed miserably (Matthew 26:14-27:66). When the rest failed, he stood the test and did not quit until he had paid the penalty for all of us. We can only forgive fallible human leadership while looking to Jesus as history’s one faithful leader.
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