Abusive Leaders or the Sexular Culture? What’s Worse for the Church?
by Stephen McAlpine:
So what’s the biggest damage being done to the church? Is it from the “out there” Sexular Age, or the internal abuse that we see played out in so many sad ways. External or internal? What’s more likely to burn us down if we’re not careful? Well, as the taco shell girl says when faced with the dilemma of hard or soft tacos, “Why can’t it be both?”
I am writing this in response to a tweet (screenshotted and put on the rest of his socials), by Mike Frost. Two points in response. First, There’s a deep irony in Mike calling out abusive Christian leadership. And second Mike feigned ignorance that Nathan Campbell’s response – also screenshotted below – was in relation to me (Mike said that he had no clue that I had coined the phrase “Sexular Age”, a phrase that has gotten some traction, and me some traction with it.).
There’s something circular about all of this, because one the abiding tendencies of abusive church Christian leadership is that they struggle with other people’s strengths or little victories being recognised. But let’s leave it at that.
The main point is – as I said above, “Why can’t it be both?” And if Mike were to sit down and discuss this with me over, say, a coffee, or some such, I would be happy to point out the false dichotomy he is posing. Both issues are dangerous to the health of the church, and in ways that at first don’t seem evident.
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