Liberalism And Leadership

Some years ago, I proposed a seminary paper which would compare Christian leadership literature in North America with Christian leadership literature in Southern Africa. I soon found more than one-thousand titles in North America. I found none in Southern Africa (except for re-packaged North American literature). This was startling, and it put paid to my assignment. I had to redesign it. I mentioned this to a Black seminary lecturer this week. He said: "You are taking a human concept, leadership, and you are casting Scripture in those terms. In Africa, that is liberalism. We don't do it."