Tony’s Blog

I am perplexed by the epidemic of weak leadership in churches.  It is not unique to the Church and the reason I am perplexed is because Christian leaders have Christ to be able to do hard things that non-Christian leaders do not have.  Okay, this is what I mean.  When a pastor of other church leader sees a problem within the church but is unwilling to do anything about it.  This happens all the time and it feels like the response is that of the “see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil monkeys”.    My perplexation (new word) comes from the fact that there are always losses when moral and behavioral problems are ignored.  Hebrews 3:13 comes to mind “let us encourage one another while it is still called today, lest our hearts grow hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”  Many times people are doing things that they are deceived by…they just don’t see it.  What happens then?  This is where strong leadership enters in and loves the brother or sister in Christ enough to say something about the very thing that the person doing it may be blind to…i.e. deceived.  Strong leadership steps in because the heart of the one being deceived is growing hard toward God, which is the worst of all things.  The reality is that our hearts as well will grow hard when we do nothing.  “He who knows what is right and does not do it, sins.” James 4:17
There are so many losses when we do not encourage one another today.  Weak leadership becomes deaf, dumb, and blind.  But, when we encourage one another we move toward being the aroma of Christ in the world and with other believers.

So, go out and encourage someone.

Because He is worth everthing,

Tony