Leadership and Emotional Sabotage Quotes

“This is the pattern—Abdication, Idolatry, Blame-shifting. It shows up again and again in the Scriptures. Aaron and the golden calf in Exodus 32. Saul and the Amalekites in 1 Samuel 15. It’s this abdication of leadership, this neglect of the duties and responsibilities of authority, this failure of nerve that lies at the root of our cultural crisis.”
― Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

“I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice”
― Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

“Leaders are bombarded by interest groups and agitators, and then put in impossible situations: “We need you to fix the problem, but you can’t bring up the elephant in the room.” As a result, they adopt appeasement strategies in order to avoid conflict. When entire institutions fall prey to this spirit of appeasement, paralysis, and excuse-making, the most mature and motivated members begin to quietly drift away, which just makes everything worse.”
― Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

“The headship of the husband is a fact, not a command. The Bible does not teach that a husband ought to be the head of his wife and his household. It teaches that he is the head of his household, whether he wants to be or not.”
― Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

“The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh” union—that is, one whole body that is made up of a head and a body (Eph. 5:22–30). In fact, we can consider the whole household in bodily terms, with the husband as the head and the wife and children as the various distinct members.”
― Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World