That is just a natural tendency. Holy people hang around holy people. Kind people want to be around kind people. Principled people like to be around others with principles. Loving people like to speak well of others hang around others who want to do the same thing.
Critics hang around criticizers.
People who want to try to run things in the church hang around with others who want to do the same thing. Think about what company the Son of God had known in eternity past before the foundations of the earth were laid. We ask someone who has been a close friend for many years not one who has just known that person for a short time. The Father and the Son had been with one another from all the way back into eternity past. Only in Jesus can you perfectly see God.