Leadership Notes | Gatekeeping Jealousy can dress itself up as discernment. Insecurity can call itself leadership. Control can insist it is “protecting” something. That is how gatekeeping begins: someone decides who gets access, opportunity, or a voice based on whether that person makes them feel threatened. Sometimes people describe this as narcissistic behavior or a Jezebel spirit. Whatever name you give it, watch the fruit. Does this person make room for others to grow, or