Was Jesus CEO?
Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 5:28PM This post is from the defunct blog "Dying Church"
From Backyard Missionary:
Was Jesus really the CEO of his followers?…
Was Paul the CEO of the early church?…
Were there any CEOs in scripture at all?…
Chief executive officer… Chief executive officer… Chief executive officer… say it out loud and hear how dumb it sounds when placed alongside ‘body of Christ’… ‘priesthood of all believers’… ‘the family of faith’ Is the person leading a church really supposed to be a CEO?…
What’s frightening is that in so many places we have stopped questioning this form and accepted it as normal in a 21st century western church. Its now considered one ‘valid’ expression of leadership, if not the dominant form.
I don’t believe it is. I don’t believe the CEO has any place in the ‘family’ of God. When was the last time your family appointed a CEO to keep it on track? Where does a ‘chief executive officer’ fit into a family? Find me one metaphor or description of the church as business/corporation anywhere in the Bible and I will walk naked up the aisle of your church this Sunday with an annual report in my bumcrack.
Ok, I’m a bit mad again.
I am convinced that the more we seek to model ourselves on business paradigms the less chance we have of being the people Jesus calls us to be.
Reader Comments (2)
I do hope this creates some discussion amongst the leadership of your denomination. Especially as it runs counter to what certain leaders believe. (Not you, of course.)
Darryl, I absolutely agree with you. Business models are focused only on making money. They have no long term vision, but rather a "satisfy the shareholder for this quarter" mentality. They are based on leadership model espoused by wicked men like Jack Welch who think of people as little more than slaves to pad the bottom line. Everything about the business model is evil. Why so few can see this is astonishing to me.