All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra. It's claimed he plays guitar, piano, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, cello, and violin. He joined Roy Wood and Bev Bevan in forming a band which went on to become ELO. Roy Wood, better known as a multi instrumentalist left, leaving Jeff Lynne the solo creative force for ELO. This picture leads me to doubt the cello playing.
My experiences of life suggest that no christian leader however mature is immune from the deadly sin of pride. (me included) However where one person accuses another rather than corrects then accusations normally reveal the heart of the accuser more than the accused. Furthermore Lord Acton also stated that:-
The man who prefers his country [read empire or self-madeness] before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.Whether the leadership is ascribed or assumed there are radical problems when success and empires are build. I have found pride inevitably leads to jealousy and envy because a sort of territorialism appears and the childish behaviour or claiming things as "Mine!" returns. I have discovered another portion of Lord Acton's original quotation.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.In another situation and another version he wrote in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.I think I would prefer to not be a great man, rather a quiet insignificant person in the world's eyes.
God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands. He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust. Is 25:11-12
