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%PRESBYNET UNITY DESCRIBE ESSENTIAL IMPORTANT MOST+990823
%LEADERS MOTIVATIONS SPEECH PROMISE PATTERN BEHAVE+990823
%WISDOM ROLE MODEL CONVERGENT CONFORMITY FORMAL+990823
%INTUITION COMMON SENSE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES EVIL 990823
What is essential to personal and communal integrity?
Here "essential" is used to **describe** whatever by its
absence leads to personal and communal disintegration.
"Essential" here does NOT mean "most important."
It is essential that the members of each community
discern the degrees of integrity in various leaders'
motivations, speech, promises and patterns of behavior.
This is NOT to say that such discernment must be
articulated clearly in words --- for wise behavior can
flow from discernment which is not articulated clearly in
words.
This is NOT to say that such discernment must become
convergent within informal or formal discussions. It can
be enough that discernment is expressed in formal voting
for candidates for office.
This is NOT to say that such discernment must flow
from any formally articulated theory regarding personal
integrity, motivations, promises, and/or patterns of
behaviors --- for wisdom is often intuitive and unspoken.
This IS to say that members of
each community need to discern
which leaders are:
1. Dominated by: fear, anxiety, insecurity, control-
issues, required-certainty, conflicts, dishonesty,
alienation, addictive tendencies, codependent tendencies,
self-righteousness, arrogance and/or violence.
2. Entrapped by: dichotomous thinking, either/or
questions, extremism, fanatics' convictions, delusions of
superiority, and/or collusive games of mutual self
deception.
3. Healthy people whose ways are worthy of trust,
respect and support.
This IS to say that within secure private meetings
the members of each community will do well to share
prayerfully their perceptions regarding their current and
potential leaders.
This IS to say that in the absence of members who
discern their leaders' characters as suggested --- a
community is likely to be dominated by contentious leaders
who involve others in futile/misleading conflicts ---
which are justified by each other's extremism, and by
affirmations which are often "promoted" by means of
denials of "different" people's complementary
affirmations.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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