{"id":714855,"date":"2020-06-30T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/?p=714855"},"modified":"2020-06-30T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:05:37","slug":"10-characteristics-of-the-best-bad-church-leaders-ive-ever-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/10-characteristics-of-the-best-bad-church-leaders-ive-ever-known\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Characteristics of the Best Bad Church Leaders I\u2019ve Ever Known"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past, I\u2019ve written about characteristics of the best leaders I\u2019ve ever known. Today, I write about church leaders I\u2019ve known who were strong leaders on one hand, but poor leaders on the other. Here are some of their good <\/span>and bad<\/span><\/i> characteristics:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. They had a great vision but assumed others would follow them only because of the vision.<\/b> They were sure vision would trump anything, include things like personal integrity and godliness. In fact, they couldn\u2019t imagine why anybody would <\/span>not <\/span><\/i>want to be on their team.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. They demonstrated preaching and communication skills but were unwilling to consider any need for improvement. <\/b>After all, why should they worry about improving when their track record already proved their skill?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. They built a great leadership team but didn\u2019t see that the team didn\u2019t want to work for them.<\/b> They sought, recruited, and secured other great leaders \u2013 but those same great leaders for various reasons grew tired of following them.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. They publicly promoted godliness but privately lived otherwise.<\/b> Their hypocrisy was behind closed doors \u2013 as it most often is.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. They bragged about their staff but failed to realize they were disconnected from that staff.<\/b> Everybody else seemed to know it, but the leaders themselves somehow missed it. The staff thus felt unappreciated even while they heard their praises.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. They emphasized relevance and change but fought change in their own office.<\/b> It\u2019s funny sometimes how leaders will tell others what they must do while completely ignoring that application in their own world.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. They stressed family values but failed to see the pain in their own family.<\/b> In fact, some of these leaders wrote on the topic even while their own home was falling apart.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. They pushed missions but refused to go themselves.<\/b> And, their refusal was for no reason other than they simply didn\u2019t want to travel that far. \u201cDo as I say, not as I [don\u2019t] do\u201d was their missions motto.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. They understood the importance of confrontation but used their staff to do the hard confrontations.<\/b> In fact, they often confronted others only through email or public articles \u2013 while avoiding face-to-face discussions.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. They had infectious passion for their work but allowed their passion to devolve into rudeness and impatience. <\/b>They so badly wanted the job done that they sometimes ran over people to get there.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let me be honest: even as I write this list, I see myself in far too many of these characteristics. How about you?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the past, I\u2019ve written about characteristics of the best leaders I\u2019ve ever known. Today, I write about church leaders I\u2019ve known who were strong leaders on one hand, but poor leaders on the other. 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