To Lead, or to Serve?

 When I worked at the local evangelical/charismatic Bible college, the goal was to "Develop Leaders." Today, I saw a van from Eugene's largest evangelical Baptist church, and on the side was emblazoned, "Live, love and lead like Jesus." I'm beginning to think that maybe the way to tell evangelicals from mainliners is that that instead of leading, the latter seek to serve. Like Jesus.

A former student commented: "I've been saying this for years. The evangelical churches are being run more and more like businesses. They only want to create leaders, but if everyone's leading, then no one's following, and honestly, at that point no one's really leading either. Churches can't be a commodity, and people don't exist to be the consumers."