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When someone does disagree, he or she becomes the victim of the leader’s anger and marginalization. They do not allow for pushback or disagreement.If they get caught abusing their power, they may have to forfeit it. Autocratic leaders are rarely transparent. Their most common tactic is using partial truths to get their way. People are means to their ends they see them as projects, not God’s people who need mentoring and developing. They seek to dismiss or marginalize people before they attempt to develop them.They say one thing to some people, but different things to others.This behavior takes place when they don’t get their way. It is clear that they have a favored few while they marginalize the rest. You will hear them criticizing other leaders while building themselves up. They see almost everyone else as inferior to themselves.They expect behavior of others they don’t expect of themselves.Indeed, if they could get away with it, they would operate in a totally autocratic fashion, with heavy, top-down leadership. They seek a minimalist structure of accountability.You won’t see them much in toxic leaders. Paul notes those specific attributes in Galatians 5:22-23: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. They rarely demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit.I now travel to the opposite extreme and provide symptoms of the worst kind of church leaders, toxic church leaders. In a previous post, I noted the traits of long-term, healthy pastors. And it is that leader that hurts the entire cause of Christ when word travels about such toxicity. But it is that church leader who brings great harm to churches and other Christian organizations. A toxic church leader, one that is figuratively poisonous to the organization, is rare. Most church leaders are godly and healthy.