download made on earth Over the last few years one of things I have observed in emerging church circles is a fair degree of debate over the nature and place of leadership in a Christian community. It’s a topic that has generated a fair bit of heat”

Some would advocate excellent leadership as a vital ingredient to a healthy community (see Frost & Hirsch) while some would choose to not even use the term leader and would replace it with ‘facilitator’. I have observed that some seem to avoid leadership or shy away from it as if it were a curse.

Why do you think that is? What kind of leadership do we need today?