A Potential Peril of Leadership - 3

Continuing from yesterday's post, Peterson discusses how Christians can treat others as functional resources instead of fellow image-bearers:

Love, the commanded relation, gives way to considerations of efficiency and is interpreted by the abstractions of plans and programs, goals and visions, evangelism statistics and mission strategies. After all, we are ordained to something beyond and more intense than simply "Christian" - we have work to do. These people with whom we find ourselves placed in a responsible position of leadership need to be put to kingdom work, or at least church work. Loving neighbors recedes to the background as we go about making recruits, lining up allies, arguing the opposition into compliance, motivating the lethargic, and signing up participants to insure the success of a project or program.

Something to consider. I'll conclude this tomorrow.