COMPETENT AND CARING LEADERSHIP

Elon Musk recently outlined in detail just some of the massive fraud, abuse and outright criminality that has been perpetrated unchecked against American taxpayers by our federal government—multiplied billions of dollars that constitute, according to Musk, “just the tip of the iceberg” of governmental grand larceny that they expect to uncover. American taxpayers, steadily and increasingly, have been victimized like this by our government for well over half a century, during which time more money should have remained in their pockets, and more people should have gone to prison than has been the case.

Mr. Musk said that this sort of thing happens anywhere and everywhere that leadership is “incompetent and uncaring.” I think competence and caring represent the essence of real leadership—leadership that brings a blessing, not a burden, to those that it serves.

Competent, caring leadership is certainly important in our houses of government. But it's far more critical where the house of God is concerned. Just as people are getting their eyes opened now to how much incompetent and uncaring leadership in congress has cost them and their children, Christians need to get their eyes open to how much incompetent and uncaring leadership in churches costs them and their children. See Isa. 56:10:

   “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

   Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.”   —Isa. 56:10, 11

We are thankful for the many good and faithful shepherds who don’t fit the above description. But far too many do. In a word, they are “hirelings” (John 10:12), and demonstrate week after week how incompetent and uncaring they are. God is “against” having such men serve as “Pastors (Ezek. 34:1-10). All Christians should be.

Spiritual things need to be and should be, “audited” from time to time for the competence and care that. can be found in it. Good spiritual leadership can bear scrutiny, and is mandated in the Scripture. God says of judgment, “Let it begin at my sanctuary” and that judgment "must begin at the house of God” (Ezek. 9:4, 6; 1 Pet. 4:17). Christian’s have no right to recuse themselves from this; “ He that is spiritual judgeth all things (1 Cor. 2:15).”