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Essay on Philosophy of Christian Leadership
Leadership is having the ability to give guidance to those that will follow. Those that follow will help to complete the mission. Leadership is an immature science and the body of knowledge in the field has developed through a series of fits and starts. Leadership is a soft science, just as anthropology, sociology and psychology. It can not be proven exactly what it is. Leadership is an art, the skillful application of leadership behaviors beyond techniques is much the same as the skillful application of brushstrokes by a master painter. Leadership is both rational and emotional. It involves both sides of human experience. It includes actions and influences based on reason and logic as well those based on inspiration and passion. Leadership is a social process shared among all members of a group. Leadership development comes through experience. We all learn from our different experiences. Whether positive or negative, they are our tools for growth and development.
Human history has been characterized perennially by intense disagreements over fundamental matters of consequence. Ardent differences about how people ought to think and act in regard to life-determining issues are a chief trait of the human condition. Our age is certainly no exception.Hypocrisy is the issue we are going to focus on today in the section we will be looking at Galatians 2. The apostle Peter, no less, is the one who is accused of holding an intellectual belief in Christian freedom, while at the same time acting contrary to that belief. Thus the hypocrisy of false Christianity is the issue which the apostle Paul is addressing in his confrontation with Peter at Antioch.
We have already seen in previous studies that a delegation consisting of Paul, Barnabus and Titus went to Jerusalem to meet with James, Cephas and John (“who were reputed to be pillars,” as Paul writes in Galatians 2:9), to settle the question, “Do Gentiles need to become Jews in order to be Christians?” That was a very critical issue.....
