Leaders

When a leader finds that most of those who are following him have rejected his leadership, the honorable thing to do is to step aside as their leader. Leaders serve their followers by giving them direction. Leaders are not lords who have vassals owing obeisence and tribute.

A leader who finds himself with unwanted followers is not a leader. He is likely an enabler of some perversion of truth. Again it is honorable for him to step aside, or he will be guilty of abuse.

In the context of a religious institution, a leader is one who represents the written Word, while the conscience of the group is the expression of the contemporary Word. Too many leaders have usurped the role of the group and have set themselves up as lords over their flocks.

I arbitrarily reject any such man, no matter what the title of his position. Jesus said to obey the Pharisee for he sits in the seat of Moses. Moses was but one of three aspects. He was the Law, or God's spoken Word. That, my friend, is the place of a religious leader.