The Thin Line of Leadership (Part 1)
At a juncture in American history when the sitting president has revealed himself in obvious and undeniable ways to be an avowed Marxist with a belly filled with fiery ambitions of a would-be world dictator, who is hell-bent on transforming the republican form of government that has served this, the greatest nation on Earth, for some 240 years, into a totalitarian socialistic nanny state, and every segment of society, from political to economical to ecclesiastical, is now inundated with people driven by what Augustine called libido dominandi—lust for rule or dominion—the matter of legitimate versus illegitimate authority is being speedily forced to the top of public discourse. The scope of this article and the series it inaugurates is primarily leadership in the ecclesiastical realm. However, much, if not all, of the principles regarding legitimate and illegitimate authority—i.e., abuse of authority—addressed herein can also with some adaptation be applied to authority in any realm of society and human interaction.
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