I honestly wonder what’s more responsible for the change in the way we pastors think of ourselves. Did our language-shift influence our self-understanding or was it the other way around?
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You’re not ‘spiritualists’ anymore, you’re ‘leaders’.
Sad, but an important distinction.
Is it possible to be “spiritualist” and a “leader” in a way that both aspects of being are complimented?
What I find interesting is that the same shift has occurred in academic circles too. I suspect the shifts aren’t mutually exclusive.
“Is it possible to be “spiritualist” and a “leader” in a way that both aspects of being are complimented?”
The answer is yes. The hard part is that people don’t understand what “spiritualists” are or should be. There are too many bad role model stereo types that fit the description of spiritualist. People automatically assume that spiritual leader = cult leading lunatic or fundamentalist millitant throwback or the various combinations thereof. Our “modern” society seems to be unable to grasp that one can be spiritual and lead in a more or less non crazy way. Unless of course the worship of capitalism is the belief system…