Bad Leadership


Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit.  Anyone can choose to become a leader wherever he is.  You can make a difference no matter where you are.  –John Maxwell

Israel had many political leaders who were not biblical leaders:

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Isaiah 10:1-2

We have too many who sit in positions of leadership, in business, in political offices, and even in the church who are not biblical leaders.  Instead of having a “Serving” mentality they have a “Serve-us” mentality.  They rule only to serve themselves at the expense of the people they are supposed to lead.

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