People worship people; this is the problem with a lot of churches. In the book of Judges the people of Israel wanted a king instead of a council of Judges and God told Samuel not to worry, because they weren't rejecting the judges, they were rejecting God as their king. We have this tendency to look up to others and turn them into demi-gods, simply, because they've done something we should all be doing or they carry a sense of being unbreakable or they're personality seems strong and so on. We gravitate towards these kind of people, lift them up as our leaders, try to imitate them, and like a current in the water, everything in our culture tries to follow this sort of power. (The Last Dance 1/2)
Jesus was born in a poor town, in a barn, his family had to escape to Egypt so they became political refugees, was the son a carpenter, during his ministry he constantly told us he had no place to lay his head, he was baptized by a guy who ate bugs and looked crazy, he taught about how being weak is good, he hanged out mostly with people who weren't cool, he washed nasty feet, he rode on a donkey not a stallion, he wasn't very liked by a lot of people, a lot of people that did like him only liked him for his miracles, almost everyone eventually betrayed or left him, he suffered the worst torture imaginable, he remained quiet, he turned the other cheek when they hit him, he didn't fight back, he was mocked as he was dying naked, and yet he seems stronger than any king or leader.
The type of leader we want to follow vs Jesus is very, very different. The type of leader we want to be vs Jesus is very, very different. "Servant Leadership" still misses the mark, because we are hung up on the leading piece. We still want to be strong leaders or we want someone that will lead us with confidence and strength in themselves; Jesus led through God's strength in his weaknesses and fleshy flaws, which made him confident in what was to come. The more you realize how broken and weak you are, the more of God's strength will come through you. The more you realize how broken and weak you are, the more equal everyone around you seems. Jesus taught us the 1st will be last and the last will be 1st; the greatest person will be the one who is everyone's servant. This isn't a cool leadership quote, this is way of a life Jesus was trying to get at. (The "Last" Dance 2/2)
However, everyone has different personalities and everyone fits somewhere differently; leadership is not a triangular position, it is a circular one like every other vocation. Some CEOs do not have what the truck driver has, this ability to drive this huge truck, be a road warrior for a VERY long time, and a passion for the road. Some finance guys who make big money could never be a waiter who has to know how to talk, make other laughs, and be comfortable in extremely uncomfortable positions. And vise versa, these people might not enjoy the tasks assigned to a CEO who watches over entire organizations. No one is better than anyone, because the Gospel that Jesus showed us humbled the proud, lifted the ignored and oppressed, and put us all on the same circular motion (downward, serving one another). So outside of Jesus, we shouldn't make any one human our "king" and those in leadership who know they're broken and weak shouldn't feel like they can oversee an entire group on their own.
The second point of Church Socialism is having a team model with a posture that's rooted in this gospel-shape leadership, call it a group of overseers, elders, whatever you like. Even in Kingdom minded businesses I've seen the CEO depend on others in the company who have a "lesser" position so that big decisions are made from a group. The beauty of an elder team is it eliminates the pyramid model where one leader is at top and the people are at the bottom. The ones doing the fruitful work, coming up with the grand ideas, and helping lead the community is the church body, while the elders are alongside them and, more importantly, one of them. A Christ centered town center will not flourish without these horizontal relationships and will suffocate if it only has a "leader among leaders."