Nothing like a ball: Instead of appointing mediocre middle managers or psychopaths as leaders; what should churches do?

Are you inspired?

As the Church of England appoints yet another mediocre middle manager as its Chief Executive - indeed, aside from being called "Sarah"; this one is as close to an archetypal Karen is is humanly possible. 

(Even within the National Health Service - that most bureaucratic of bureaucracies - I speak from experience; to be a career "Nursing Officer" is near the very pinnacle of officious dysfunctionality, dullness and futility.)

This appointment is representative of the CofE's mainstream roadmap of institutional survival - which is to convert church buildings into "community centres" - with meeting and social rooms for hire, café, musical events (my local church will soon be hosting a Miley Cyrus "tribute" concert...); with church activities focused on mainstream-left-approved socio-political "activism".  

At this point it might be worth reflecting upon what a any Christians who still exist within the major church structures might instead do - other than the alternative MBA-approved path of appointing as "leader" some kind of a charismatic, asset-stripping, con-artist, and psychopath*.

The answer is simple, but unpopular - which is to strive by all possible means to make church activities deep, serious, and spiritual. 

A place where the services are intended to induce fundamental thought; and where it is hoped (if possible) to encourage a higher and spiritual consciousness.

This assumes that there are at least some people who are motivated to want this - perhaps want it with a profound yearning; but who find depth, seriousness and spiritual consciousness to be utterly lacking in the superficialities and sloganism of mainstream culture and mainstream churches.

Such a change cannot possibly come from appointing a church leader from any conceivable list of qualified and/or acceptable candidates - since none of these people even desire what is needed but the opposite; all of these have been selected, propagandized, and trained to serve the requirements of our totalitarian System. 

The trouble is that most church-goers, including those most active; apparently seek almost Anything But what I have suggested. 

They want instead a nice and social situation, a sensation of "doing good" in some generically-approved fashion; with some cheerful singing and a bit of picturesque or colourful "ceremony".

My "advice" to churches will strike actually-existing church-members as analogous to that of Caroline Bingley in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: 

“I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of they day." 

"Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball.” 

Actual churches want to stage a series of "balls" - whereas my suggestions are so radical as to make church nothing like a ball!

  

 *The USA is re-experiencing just how delusive it is to expect, or even hope, that such persons will act as guides and exemplars; in situations when this entails System-inexpedient, long-termist, principled behaviour. When we need a hero to save their people; we need to recognize that psychopaths are never heroes, they do not willingly suffer, or even take risks, for their people - because ultimately they are always motivated by working for themselves.