Doug Wilson Says ‘Not only is’ ‘servant leadership’ ‘a sin, but it is a black mold kind of sin’

“There really is a sin that we cover over with the white paint of that alluring phrase servant leadership. Not only is it a sin, but it is a black mold kind of sin—hard to identify, difficult to notice, and really destructive. And if the black mold is deep in your walls, another coat of paint is not the solution anybody should be looking for…let’s start calling it servant lordship instead. I mentioned the need to build consensus. Can we build consensus around that? No? Then it is not the servant part we differ on. It is the authority part. But Scripture is unambiguous about the authority part. Wives are to obey their husbands (Tit. 2:5). However, we live in a generation that hates the idea that a husband has genuine authority in the home. A potential elder must rule his household well (1 Tim. 3:4). And all the feminists bridle at this word—both the feminists who know they are feminists and all the evangelical feminists who call their feminism something like complementarianism, fooling only themselves.”¹ — Doug Wilson

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