{"id":1577,"date":"2023-11-08T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2023-11-11T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T16:25:59","slug":"the-temptation-to-choose-power-is-greatest-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"The temptation to choose power is greatest when&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025.jpg 434w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"en-ESV-26481\" class=\"text John-10-11\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The long, painful history of the church is the history of people ever and again tempted to choose power over love, control over the cross, being a leader over being led&#8230;. One thing is clear to me: the temptation to power is greatest when intimacy is a threat. Much Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people who have been unable to give and receive love. &#8211;Henry Nouwen quoted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/books-and-articles\/when-narcissism-comes-to-church\/\">When Narcissism Comes to Church<\/a> \u00a0by Chuck DeGroat .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nov. 8, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The long, painful history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[62,73,20],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-thought-for-the-day","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-narcissism","tag-spiritual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}