Leaders

I use the word leader with great hesitation, because most people's concept of leader is different then what I see Jesus's model. Even when people say "servant leader" I still think they usually have a too rigid authoritarian concept. 

Whenever we have two people interacting there is a natural tendency for the stronger personality to lead the other. So when the group gets a bit larger, this tendency brings out the strongest personalities. This can be a good thing as it can facilitate the groups movement towards a common purpose, but because of the selfish egotistical bias in each of us, the one leading will always become abusive to the weaker ones in some way or another. For this reason a group of leaders is still better than one leader. I guess this would agree with what you say about leadership being a necessary evil. With no leadership, the group might lack direction, but with a leader or leaders, there will come leadership abuse. So we must create an foster a model that will best guarantee a system to continually evaluate the "leaders" so that they are representatives of all the group especially the weakest and most silent. One mistake many make is thinking that in a good democracy the rules are made by the majority. Actually, this is often true, but in a healthy democracy the constitution will ensure the rights of all people so that the majority cannot pass a rule that will infringe on the liberty of any minority or individual. I would be interested to hear your ideas on how we can best avoid the abuse of leadership and all the politics of it withing our church and church organizations.