The dissertation intends to work on a possible path for the exercise of a genuinely Christian authority by the ecclesiastical leaders, facing the challenging scenario where they find themselves in contemporary times. For this, initially the conceptualization of the expression leadership is made, in order to situate the terms of the research, approaching it next to the theological context in the definition of ecclesiastical leadership and the role of the religious leader. Then, a reading of the contemporary scenario is developed from the concepts of epochal change, postmodernity and liquid-modernity, all with emphasis on the impacts that their peculiar characteristics generate for the Christian leader. Finally, there is an urgent need for a proposal for a genuine way forward in this context. This is built from two ideas that mainly govern this work of the authority of those who suffer, the concept worked by the Austrian theologian Martha Zechmeister, in which it is presented to the proposal of an authority in opposition to the concept of imposing power; and the biblical concept of leadership, expressed in the work of Jesus as a paradigm of community leadership that generates individual transformation and, episode of washing feet reported in John chapter 13. They are found as leaderships and exercises that serve, as a perspective in time, is that the search author resumes a Christian path to be followed for the exercise of a difficulty in which nascent and contextualized presents a search for leadership of a difficulty in which nascent and contextualized.