I’m swamped at the moment, and so rather than think anything original, I direct you to this excellent thought courtesy of Robbymac:
If you locked a new believer in a room for a month, and told him/her to read the Gospels and learn all they could about Jesus’ understanding of true spiritual leadership, there is no possible way that they would emerge a month later and suggest a CEO-style, management-based heirarchical model.
While I agree fully with the statement, and I personally see “Church
as management” as a pox upon modern Christianity and spirituality, I wonder how
much of it is nothing more than contextualisation to a culture we
know and hate. If we were foreigners trying to implant the gospel
in a godless western culture, would we see the CEO profile and all the
trappings it produces as a good working contextualised ecclesiology
in a culture that lives and breathes that style? Just a thought.