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Hierarchy Is Divisive

For years I’ve heard business leaders tout servant leadership. They try it for a while then give up.

One cannot be a servant leader with positional authority over someone.

What happens when they disagree?… on several things? The leader must get his way and the follower must yield. It’s a one way relationship.

This is the opposite of service. If the leader yields often he becomes seen as a weak leader and/or not a lot gets accomplished.

Positional leaders who pretend to be servant leaders, (with meek and kind dispositions) have been misled. They must periodically cease serving and direct the blind sheep (who may or may not really be blind), they must get there way, they must turn away, shut down or send certain people packing, in order to lead.

The only solution offered to this is, “leave and go find a servant leader you can submit to”…LOL think about it, it’s silly.

Hierarchy is Very Divisive

If the church clings to the worn out tradition of hierarchy (like a 4 year old to his bottle) a lot of activity might happen but we have ceased to follow Jesus Christ.

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Understanding…Explaining All Things

At work I spend most days experimenting and studying in order to understand how things work or how and why things fail.

If we can understand fundamentally the mechanism then we can repair, invent new or engineer things to our advantage.

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Apply this to everything in life, dig and explore until we get to the root of a problem, understand it in great detail then act on that understanding, and explain it to anyone who will listen.

What I did not expect was that Jesus does this also, as a youth I thought following him was just about not sinning and maybe becoming a preacher. Not so.

No one understands reality like Jesus Christ, if we seek him constantly and stick with him even when life is very disappointing and hard he will explain in great detail.

He has won me over a thousand times, I’d do anything, say anything and go anywhere at his command.

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What Jesus Said About Himself
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Surrendering to Jesus or Practicing Lawlessness

“’Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.”

“”Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.” “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’”

Matthew 7:22-23 NASB

Not doing the will of God HERE ON EARTH, even if it’s ministry activity is considered lawlessness. Lawlessness because they do it out of self will, they haven’t surrendered to Christ.

When Jesus is Lord, it’s his will being done, our wills, our ambitions, our wonderful vision for how things should be is dead, it requires a surrender, a yielding to the spirit of Jesus in all, Jesus’ will is revived in all, not the pro at the top of some heirarchy.

If one man must dominate and have his will done by all to keep a group of Christians united and together then it’s that mans kingdom. Take him out and things disintegrate. This is lawlessness even the group is doing noble ministry stuff.

I’ve seen this many when a pastor leaves or resigns, or is driven out, his loyal followers disband and leave in a hurry. He kept them united, he motivated their work, he united them in the struggle. It wasn’t Jesus because Jesus hadn’t left and doesn’t change.

It had always been that leader who was their mini lord, mini religious king, this is not the Lordship of Jesus or the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

This is wordily lawlessness and it’s everywhere, it won’t last.

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