Styles of Biblical Leadership 2.

When we start out reading the Bible, leaders generally operate with total Authority. It is top down. All a leader needs is one vote to pass whatever he wanted. It was a theocracy!
 God spoke to Moses who did what God said. Then he passed it on to the Hebrew Children.

 17 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”

3 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

4 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

5 The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” 

So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

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Top down leadership is hard, even when the Lord tells us what to do. Many current Pastors are tempted to claim that mantle from Moses. But, if you are the top dog the people blame every problem on you. 

Moses was tired of being blamed by the people. It is a rule of leadership that leaders who do too much will be blamed for problems but not honored for successes. 

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