Leadership and Authority
Bula-Matari and Life-Community Ecclesiology in CongoThis book proposes that Christian theology in Africa can have a significant impact if a critical understanding of the socio-political situation in contemporary Africa is taken seriously.
The Christian leadership in post-colonial Africa has cloned its understanding and use of authority on the Bula Matari model, which issued from the brutality of colonialism and political absolutism in post-colonial Africa. This model has caused many problems in churches, including dysfunction, conflicts, division and lack of prophetic ministry.
The book proposes that Life-Community ecclesiology can liberate authority, where leadership is a function, not a status and ‘apostolic succession’ belongs to the people of God.
'This is a superb book on leadership which has implicatons for all in churh lea Cathy Ross J V Taylor Fellow in Missiology,Oxford University