So, in the view of some, leaderless church is not a bug - it's a feature. It's not only a feature but it's a new feature as it is now possible to examine the contents of millions of Christian books via internet searches and come up short regarding this "lack of attention about leadership".

Hey. We all desire more for and from ourselves, our health, our marriage, our job, our family, and our church. Along comes the guy who declares: You can have it all, now in this life. Just read my books. Just let Jesus personally take over and let him really be the head of his church.

This reminds me of the the wine really becoming the actual blood of God. In that it is an exaggeration of realities which are otherwise true. And yes, He is Lord of all, in control, whether we acknowledge it or not. Of course we acknowledge the spiritual presence of Christ in all places, church meetings - not excluded.

What we do not know of is the Son of God physically appearing at multiple places at the same time. Sure, he could leave the right hand of the Father and show up anywhere on earth at anytime.

If human leaders were essentially needless and given "no interest" and a "dramatic lack of attention", why, pray tell, would the inspired scriptures refer to certain persons, in their flesh, as special gifts which distinguished them from other saints? Gifts bestowed by the resurrected Saviour after he completed his ministry on earth?

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says:“When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people. What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions ? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe. 

So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Obviously, something is wrong in the world of church leadership. Many have abused and elevated it. Professionalized it. On that, most would agree.

And we would agree with the recent contributor here who reminded us that: Jesus must increase - we all must decrease.