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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Good ol' Bonhoeffer! Man has such a propensity to allow himself to be exulted. This is because Adam is of his father, the prideful devil.
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Before the quote previously posted Bonhoeffer said:
“the good leader serves others and leads them to maturity. He puts them above himself, as a good parent does a child, wishing to lead that child to someday be a good parent. Another word for this is discipleship.”
And after it he said
“Only when a man sees that office is a penultimate authority in the face of an ultimate, indescribable authority, in the face of the authority of God, has the real situation been reached. And before this Authority the individual knows himself to be completely alone. The individual is responsible before God.
But this submission to the eternal authority is destroyed when the authority of the leader or his office becomes the ultimate authority. The true leader sees himself as a creature before his creator. This humility sets him free but at the same time commits him to be responsible in his position.”
Bonhoeffer concludes his address with a dire warning for a leader who refuses to submit to God:
“ anyone who lays violent hands on man here is infringing eternal laws and taking upon himself superhuman authority which will eventually crush him. The eternal law that the individual stands alone before God takes fearful vengeance where it is attacked and distorted . . . Leaders or offices which set themselves up as gods mock God and the individual who stands alone before him, and must perish.”
I hope you also find this quote relevant today.