Wonder way folks in high profile positions sometimes fall.......? I remember a letter from my Mom when I was attedning Baylor a "few" years back tellng me that our pastor had fallen morally. I couldn't believe it .....no way! Well since then I have seen or read countless leaders who lost their way. From an article by Professor Bill George we can see some factors that might lead to demise.
Leaders have a high profile. Leaders are often held in high regard....maybe too high regard. In what Dr. George calls the leadership trap....when leaders begin to focus on external gratification instead of inner satisfaction. Little by little they can drift from the right path.
George's answer is accountability and shifting from being heroes to servants. Rings a bell doesn't it..."the first shall be last and the last shall be first." Let me close with this quote from former U.S. Senator John Ensign who resigned after a moral failure: "When one takes a position of leadership, there is a very real danger of getting caught up in the hype surrounding that status....Surround yourselves with people who will be honest with you about how you really are and what you are becoming, and then make them promise to not hold back..from telling the truth."
Blessings dear ones.
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