Tyson and Kuiper on “Who Should we Follow”

Last week I wrote about what kind of people we should follow in our churches.

While it didn’t stir as many comments as other posts, and didn’t involve pretty pictures, I wanted to follow up with a funny comment my friend Tyson Guthrie left and a quote from R.B. Kuiper on the same topic.

The comment (on the topic of who we should follow):

Knowing Tyson makes this comment funny because I know he is painfully joking. Unfortunately, that is not always seen as a joke. Here is some further insight by R.B. Kuiper in his book “The Glorious Body of Christ”:

It is a great American fallacy that a man who is sucessful in business or a profession is qualified for pretty nearly any position of responsibility. That accounts for it that so many churches have a decided preference for men of that type for the eldership. Seldom is a relatively poor laboring man elected to this office. And yet he may possess the qualifications for this office in a higher degree than does the president of a bank or a college.

If you’re interested in the book, which I highly recommend, hit me up and you are more than welcome to borrow it (after my final on Tuesday the 19th).

Thoughts?