Firstly, I don't presently define "traditional leadership" as identical to Paul's instructions. This is part of what I was saying to OBW. I'm
considering how much of the mess we've seen is the corruption of Paul, which I'm sure is largely the case, and how much is Paul's honestly mistaken concept, which is more difficult to address. When I'm talking about "traditional leadership" I'm talking about all the denominational expressions of eldership and deacons and such. So much is supposedly "based upon" Paul's teachings that I really don't know what to think today. I'm hopeful I can learn from Hope's study when he gets to it.
And I'm not ready to acquiesce that the models of human leadership are the best that God has in store for His assembly. I think you're right about leaders and followers but we need to be better than that, I think, and I also think we can. I just can't really say what that might be right now.
