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| Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free from Bad Church Experience |
How might church leaders learn from Jesus’ criticism of the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 23:1-12? Bad church leadership is no different than bad Jewish leadership. The Protestant Reformation was a protest against bad leadership, but it did not solve the problem, nor did it prevent Protestant churches from also having bad leadership. Bad church leadership is hypocritical. It places heavy and cumbersome loads on peoples’ shoulders. It crushes people with unbearable religious demands. Instead of teaching God’s word as food, it loads people down like pack animals with the rules and traditions of mere men. Bad church leadership focuses more on distinctive clothing, titles and public adulation than on saving and helping people. What kind of leadership does Christ expect of leaders in the Christian community? The greatest among us are those who humbly serve and relieve burdens.
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