SPIRITUAL
LEADERSHIP; PASTORS: AMBITION; PASTORAL MINISTRY: PRIDE

A number of factors contribute to bad spiritual leadership.…

Ambition. When Christ is not all in all to the minister he is tempted to seek place for himself, and pleasing the crowds is a time-proved way to get on in church circles. Instead of leading his people where they ought to go he skillfully leads them where he knows they want to go. In this way he gives the appearance of being a bold leader of men, but avoids offending anyone, and thus assures ecclesiastical preferment when the big church or the high office is open.

2 Corinthians 1:12; Galatians 1:9–10; Colossians 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:2–4

God Tells the Man Who Cares, 55, 56.