In the Church, the lack of true leadership gives rise to the proliferation of sin and evil doers as well as false church leaders. The lack of real leaders in a church causes many people to lose their souls, die and go to Hell. How can this be? A real leader in the church will lead the congregation to win souls and do missionary work. Whenever the church’s leadership stopped concerning itself with the lost and dying souls, false religions and alternative faiths crept in and took over.
A body without a head is no body. A church without a true leader is truly pathetic! A nation without a real leader is cursed! Truly every nation rises
and falls based on its leaders.
Almost every bad situation within the church can be attributed to the lack of a good leader. Church splits and scandals are often the result of a lack of strong leadership. The Scripture we read above tells us how God was going to curse the land by taking away leaders. Churches rise and fall on leadership. With a good strong leader, a church will grow into a megachurch. With bad leadership, churches don’t go anywhere even if the pastor is very anointed. You sometimes see an anointed minister who has bad leadership qualities. His ministry usually falls into chaos because of bad leadership qualities.
Leadership is an art. It is a secular subject, which is necessary for ministers of the gospel to understand. The ability to write and read is not a spiritual thing; it is a secular skill, which needs to be learned. Without that ability you are going nowhere in this world. Same thing for leadership!
Without the knowledge and skills of leadership your ministry is going nowhere.
Every nation depends on its leadership.
In this Scripture, God predicts a mighty judgement on Jerusalem and on Judah. God had determined to punish and destroy those nations. How was he going to do it? The Scriptures make it very clear.
Some years ago I asked a friend whom he would vote for in an upcoming election. He hesitated, so I asked a more direct question. I asked, “Will you vote for President X?”
At that point he responded and said, “If I had to choose between your four-year-old son, David, and President X, I would certainly prefer to vote for your four-year-old son.”
He continued and said, “I would rather vote for a goat to be our President than for that person.”
It is obvious that neither my son nor a goat would be able to help our nation very much. To have the leadership of children or babies, or as this person said, a goat, is certainly a curse. What would be the result of having such inappropriate and flunkey leaders? The Bible has the answers.
“The people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable” (Isaiah 3:5).
Have you not seen this picture somewhere - oppression, injustice, intimidation and the proliferation of all sorts of evil? What gives rise to rebels in Africa, and to thousands of young people in a drug culture in Europe and America? In a nation where there is little or no good leadership, you will notice the rise of coup leaders, rebels and war mongers.
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