Leadership and Followership: Who Are They?

Who made him the leader?

Men are supposed to lead. That is the claim, and it echoes through churches, homes, and conversations at kitchen tables. But the moment you ask the next question, the whole structure begins to tremble: Who made him the leader?

If the only answer is, He is the man, a crisis is hiding inside that answer. It confuses sex with calling, a title with competence, and the holding of authority with the earning of trust. And it leaves a second question unspoken: can anyone lead if nobody follows?

Leadership and Followership: Who Are They? is a prophetic investigation, anchored in the King James Bible, into the origin, identity, purpose, corruption, and restoration of the two functions on which every home, church, and nation depends. It does not take the side of leaders against followers, or of followers against leaders. It asks who is leading, who is following, and to whose authority both are answering.

Across eight Parts and sixty-one chapters, you will:
•Return to the garden and see how God built order into creation before any human title existed.
•Watch the order fracture in Eden, in Cain, at Babel, among the patriarchs, and among Israel’s kings.
•Study Jesus Christ, the only Man who led and followed without flaw, and what His obedience to the Father reveals.
•Examine marriage and the home: headship, submission, trust, love, and what to do when authority exists but trust is lost.
•Test the church and the nations against Scripture, including the marks of a mature follower, the tests of a trustworthy overseer, and when a believer must obey God rather than men.
•Learn the practices of restoration for the individual, the home, the church, and the nation, beginning with what a person must be before he is asked to become anything: identity, purpose, and the difference between a male and a man.
•Read one man’s witness of what happened when he submitted to God’s order in the places where it had broken, and receive a plain charge to the home drawn from the garden.

Four guardrails hold the whole book in place: leadership is not domination, followership is not inferiority, order is not a ranking of human worth, and no one, whatever his title, stands in the place of Christ.

Every chapter opens with a verse, and the chapters close with questions for reflection and response, so the book can be read alone, with a spouse, in a small group, or taught from the front of a room.

If you lead, you will learn what makes a person worth following. If you follow, you will learn to follow with discernment and not mere compliance. And if you are both, as most of us are, you will learn whom you are really following.

Read slowly. Read with your Bible open. And let the Lord answer the question on which this whole book turns: Who is leading you?