Leaders are vitally important to every organization, whether spiritual or secular. It is when we venture into the area of the “religious” that we find a mixture of the two; exerting authority and control while administering guilt and criticism. Throughout the recorded account of Jesus’ earthly life we find this type of opposition in the entity known as the Pharisees, a legalistic and superficially pious group of men who were devout in their observations of the Talmud and the interpretations of the scribes of the times, but gave little heed to the Scriptures themselves…