Whether reading books from Emergent Church writers, or visiting the local Christian bookstore, y
ou may have run across a title for Jesus that I have not yet found in the Bible. “Leader.” I came across a new blog today, linked from ChristianityToday.com, that bemoans the title:
“Beware of any literature that starts with these words: ‘Jesus was the greatest leader of all time.’ The sentiment behind those words may be true, but the point they make is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if Jesus was the greatest leader of all time. Jesus is our leader (and, in a holy sense, we’re stuck with him).”
“The issue at hand is far from nit-picky. Evangelicals have long been accused of domesticating Jesus—making him one of “us” (often white, middle-class, socially respectable, and politically conservative). The glut of Jesus-as-leader books runs a tremendous risk as it attempts to introduce Jesus into the economy that surrounds 21st century leadership.”
Read the rest here.