God’s Church cannot embrace the indiscriminate pragmatism of contemporary leadership practices. A disturbing amount of leadership training being utilized today fails to stop and ask what God wants from our leadership. Even Christian education often promotes effective leadership habits and practices without ever challenging motivation or intent. This approach to development only reproduces a Christian-sprinkled approach to leading, and results in leadership that is self-sufficient and self-serving. Chillingly, our equipping can be all too much like giving murderers better knives.
