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Authoritarian Pastors

“...being firm, or even being visionary, can cross over into being a bully”

By Filings on Tue, 11/10/20
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“A man may be a good preacher, and may be good in a variety of pastoral situations, but the key issue here is ‘How does he handle disagreement with his vision or viewpoint, or how does he handle people when they aren’t where he would like them to be?’” - C.Leaders

2 Reasons Bully Pastors Rise Up in the Church

By Filings on Thu, 09/17/20
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“The first is that we’ve backed away from a biblical definition of a leader—humble, gentle, kind, faithful, loving, servant. The kind of character qualities that are in the Timothy passage when it talks about qualifications for elder” - Paul David Trip

How Do Churches End Up with Domineering Bullies for Pastors?

By Filings on Tue, 01/22/19
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“What leadership virtue are we mistaking bullying for? Which trait is such a priority that we aren’t even aware when it is deployed in an ungodly, and biblically prohibited, way? In short, why do we end up with bullies as prominent pastors?” - TGC

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