I clicked on a link at blogger.com called NextBlog and my first time I got the following, (from the title link above), and here is what I saw at the top (scroll to the bottom of this entry to get my reactions and the why this is significant:
Here’s some quotes by Gordon Cosby, founder of the Church of the Savior in D.C., on what makes a servant leader. I think some of you will enjoy these:
On vision…
“The most crucial gift of a leader is the capacity to see new possibilities, new combinations of energy and life coming together and to see now, in imagination, that which is not yet but which ought to be.”
“My task is to get close enough to Jesus Christ for him to do through me what he wants to do, which is the call that he has placed on my life.”
On hope…
“In War and Peace Prince Andre says of Austerlitz, ‘Our loss was not much greater than that of the French, but we said to ourselves that we would lose it, and we did lose it.’ In other words, we lost because we told ourselves we would lose. Militarily it was not quite that simple. But the point is clear. Fatalism saps the will and produces the situation it prophesies.”
“Hope is a form of faith and tends to produce what it sees. Despair is a form of faith and tends to produce what it sees.”
On “empathic universalism” (as opposed to empathic provincialism):
“The great leader sees and feels himself or herself as a part of the whole – identified with the totality.”
“The great leader never feels it is us verses them. He or she is for everybody. To be for one interest group is never to be against another. To be for those without power is surely not to be against those with power.”
On waiting:
“Are we willing, after we have done all that we know to hold the vision, and to carry it with hope, and to let it be a part of the totality, and to give it our best – are we willing then simply to wait when we have done it all? And simply to suffer, and to let our vicarious suffering be the means by which God ultimately brings the kingdom?”
From “By Grace Transformed”, Chapter 2 – The Nature of Christian Leadership
posted by Mike Bishop | 12:15 PM
Today we visted a Presbyterian Church for the second time in four weeks (Janet had visited a couple of weeks ago when I went to our regular church). I was not “into it”; I have been feeling so “disconnected” from Church lately, not the least of the reason s being that I had felt so little appreciation or sense of having my explicitly expressed sense of call be challenged, brushed aside, and considered “dangerous” by key people at my Church. It’s really been the case from the beginnings of my efforts.
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I’m not sure when this article was logged in but it is June 24, 2004 now. As far as I know the Church of the Savior (COTS) continues to be the most refreshing community of faith in America. This after more than 50 years; the sense of commitment, of being present to people in need; of working for peace, justice, the integrity of the world. COTS has not been replicated but it has spawned many people in the world to come to grips with the nature and mission of the church. Gordon Cosby, in his humble yet courageous way, has challenged the people to truly be God’s people in God’s world.