{"id":64987,"date":"2023-06-25T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64987"},"modified":"2023-06-25T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T13:12:40","slug":"misled-by-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64987","title":{"rendered":"Misled by followers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*WHEN FOLLOWERS MISLEAD LEADERS*<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; They told Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him&#8221; (Exodus 32:23)<\/p>\n<p>*There is so much talk in our days on the place of leadership in shaping communities and nations*. But very little attention is paid to followership, yet followers impact leaders more than we imagine.<\/p>\n<p>*The People of Israel forced the hands of Samuel*, and even that of God, to have a king like other nations (1Samuel 8:20)<\/p>\n<p>*The anti-Jesus religious crowd forced Pilate* to sacrifice Him for Barabas, a bandit (Matthew 27:16,17)<\/p>\n<p>It was the followers, not Aaron the leader, that wanted a golden calf.<\/p>\n<p>*Wherever you see a nation in crisis or the true worship of God replaced with &#8220;golden calves&#8221; of mammon and personality cult, followers are accomplices to the error*.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <strong>Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*WHEN FOLLOWERS MISLEAD LEADERS* &#8220;&#8230; They told Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him&#8221; (Exodus 32:23) *There is so much talk in our days on the place of leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[5978,4660,5979],"class_list":["post-64987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-faith","tag-aaron","tag-followers","tag-misled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}