In his well-balanced way, Michael Quicke brings a much-needed center to the literature on leadership and preaching:
Leadership left to its own devices can lose spiritual footing in several ways. Separation from preaching increases
the dangers of leadership degenerating into humanistic advice, becoming devoid of the Holy Spirit, empty of spiritual understanding, and predisposed to puffed up pride.
Without understanding leadership, preaching becomes wooly in its piety, naive in its application, and guilty on all accounts of thin-bloodedness…Preaching urgently needs to learn from leadership about critical issues such as change, conflict, the need for intentionality, and the understanding process.