Category Archives: Leadership

Male headship before the Fall

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Egalitarian writers often claim that male headship did not come about until after the Fall, and is, accordingly, a consequence of the Fall.

This view goes back at least as far as Chrysostom, who represents God as addressing the woman thus:

‘In the beginning I created you equal in esteem to your husband, and my intention was that in everything you would share with him as an equal, and as I entrusted control of everything to your husband, so did I to you; but you abused your equality of status.

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What is the time?

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Trevin Wax explains the importance for the Christian leader of knowing ‘what time it is’.  It is one thing to focus on ‘timeless principles’, but another to lead in the context of:-

Biblical time.  Scripture has a clear timeline, reaching back to creation and stretching forward to the new creation.  We need to know where we are in the grand sweep of God’s purposes, and to understand what it means to live in the overlapping time of ‘now’ and ‘not yet’.…

Puritans on male leadership

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According to J.I Packer, the Puritans advanced four arguments confirming the rightness of male leadership as adumbrated in Milton’s ‘he for God only, she for God in him’:-

  1. The argument from creation: the man was made first, then the woman, and the woman was made to benefit the man as a suitable helper for him.
  2. The argument from the story of the Fall: the woman was first in the transgression, and God decreed in judgement that henceforth her husband should rule over her.
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Wanted: Christian leaders

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We live in a world, writes John Stott, that is desperate for effective leadership. At the global level, there are massive nuclear arsenals, widespread violations of human rights, frightening environmental and energy crises, and North-Sough economic inequality. Morally, we are aware of forces at work that are undermining the stability of marriage and the family, challenging sexual mores and roles, and providing what is virtually abortion on demand. Spiritually, there is the spread of materialism and the corresponding loss of any transcendent reality.…

Quotes on leadership

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The person who can’t lead and won’t follow makes a dandy roadblock.  (Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, 214)

He who would be a good leader must be prepared to deny himself much.  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

I believe it might be accepted as a fairly reliable rule of thumb that the man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader.   (A. W. Tozer)

I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. …