{"id":28883,"date":"2022-09-15T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=28883"},"modified":"2022-09-15T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T02:11:15","slug":"god-of-grace-god-of-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/god-of-grace-god-of-righteousness\/","title":{"rendered":"God of Grace, God of Righteousness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Leadership Perspectives<\/em> was written by Simon Western and Eric-Jean Garcia. The book is split into two parts: Part 1 \u2013 presentation of various leadership from 20 countries all over the globe and Part 2 \u2013 Critical analysis of leadership and conclusion. This book offers great insights into the history and cultural context of understanding various leadership perspectives all over the world. In its discussion of the leadership of the USA, the author stated that \u201cleadership in the USA is often synonymous with charisma. While research does suggest that charisma is an important component of leadership, in the American context, this trait is also associated with a persistent messianic call.\u201d[1]<\/a> It further described that people wish for this type of messianic leader because of their innate desires to be relieved from social and economic chaos, injustice, and divisions.<\/p>\n

I cannot believe the South Africa trip is already next week. I am excited about the upcoming trip, but I am not excited at all when I think about the longsuffering airplane ride. What do you do when you ride long airplane rides? I usually watch a couple of movies because I love stories and dialogues. One of the recent movies I watched, but I wished that I didn\u2019t watch, was a movie called MLK\/FBI. It was a documentary that leaves many open-ended questions for the audience that gives them a piece of new information that can be very disruptive if they weren\u2019t aware of it before. The movie\u2019s concluding scenes may leave the audience with discreditation and disbelief of everything that MLK did because it documented the moral failures of MLK as a leader. Until I watched this documentary, I only read and saw the good side of MLK, and I was shocked at this new piece of information, whether it\u2019s true or false, that this iconic hero and charismatic leader had an unknown dark side. I wish that I didn\u2019t find out about this new information because it now forever changed my view and opinions on MLK and his movement.<\/p>\n

In my observation and experience of many non-profit 501(c)3 organizations in the USA, the Christian church and the public benefit missional organizations, the Messiah leadership and charismatic leadership \u201chas long appealed to individuals and collectively to society, especially in turbulent environments, promising salvation from a chaotic world.\u201d[2]<\/a> Likewise, in Korean American churches, this kind of charismatic Messianic leadership is very common. And it\u2019s like Covid, everything is good when the leader is leading and serving and the organization is growing, but as soon as a Covidlike crisis hits, it shakes and discredits and brakes apart everything that has been building over the years. In many of these great organizations, there is a long history of sacrifice, hard work, and long years of relationships. Two things that completely overthrow the ship and bring doubts, political divisions, and legal disputes are the moral failure of this type of a leader. It becomes deadly when it is related to sexual misconduct and embezzlement of funds. I read through many leadership books over the years, and it all highlights and defines a good leader as someone who can move the people and the organization to grow.<\/p>\n

In the past couple of years, I heard about numerous moral failures of pastors, CEOs, presidents, and the Chairman of the boards. And I found something common in all of these repeated stories \u2013 \u201cMessiah leaders have strong egos and a strong sense of self and faith in themselves expressed through their vision of the future, which becomes an extension of the self. When this becomes dysfunctional, it can lead to omnipotence, grandiosity, narcissism, and misjudgments on a grand scale.\u201d[3]<\/a> Top organizational leadership is very difficult because they are the ones who have to deal with the sinking ship that was bombed by the catastrophic failure and disruption, but many times they are tied to both personal relationships and exercising the duty of righteous organizational relationships. What\u2019s crazy is that deception and spiritual warfare gets added onto already an overwhelming chaos that will completely destroy the body of Christ, the history of the organizations, and all trust in relationships. When the crisis hits, everything that is underneath in a human heart comes out and easily becomes influenced by evil and wickedness. Every successful and charismatic leaders must depend on the grace of God that calls every child of God to repentance and even to everlasting discipline to turn away from evil. God saves again and again, God never fails, God prevails, God will never let go, and God always protects the righteous and those who trusts in God!<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Simon Western and \u00c9ric-Jean Garcia, Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis<\/em>. 1st edition (Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018), 174.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Ibid, 196.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Ibid, 198.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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