Leaders and Pastor: If your church is full of people who look like you, talk like you, and think like you, then you have failed to lead people to Christ. Your goal should never be to create a church full of ‘mini-me’s who think like you, dress like you, talk like you, and who agree with every doctrinal point you make. Your goal is to lead them to Christ and to allow His empowering grace to fashion each individual into a believer who can think for themselves, pull out Biblical truths for themselves, and who can rightly discern God’s will and direction for their lives. There should never be a spoken or unspoken threat to ‘tow the company line or else’ policy in your church structure.
Control
Tullian Tchividjian
There is nothing that forces us to face our addiction to control quite like our inability to change the heart of another person.
N T Wright
We are called to be people of God’s Word. And God’s word can never be controlled by rationalistic schemes are contained within the tight little frameworks that we invent to keep everything tidy and under control.