For Christians is there a difference between discipleship and leadership? Are they same?
Leadership and discipleship may run very parallel tracks as both leadership and discipleship involve disciplines, training, time-management, strategic planning, work ethic, passion, conviction, and will require mentorship for maturation yet they are different. In considering leadership, you can observe that there are many leaders, both religious and secular, in our culture and our world. Leaders can be found in both realms. You can be both a disciple and a leader, but not all leaders are disciples. Leadership requires the acquisition of essential skills used for leading others in both the church and the world, but what each leads people to is distinctively different. For the secular man, leadership is structurally vital for the acquisition of money, property, power, influence, and other self-indulgent means. Far too many of God's ministers in the age of the megachurch bring these same secular leadership goals into the pulpit and their church. Secular leadership is