THE ART OF LEADERSHIP
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders – when the job is done, when the task is accomplished – the people will say, we have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
CULTURE’S IMPACT
We can’t pretend cultural change doesn’t impact the church. It does. It always has. Every church exists in the context of a culture. Every church has inherited a culture … Culture is a kind of language. And as with any language, once we become fluent in our culture, we stop thinking about it.
Doug Pagitt Church in the inventive age
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the essence of being human [...] we say a person is a person through other persons. You can’t be a human in isolation. You are human only in relationships. [...] So we say that ‘I need you to be all of who you are in order for me to be all that I am.’ Because no human being is totally self-sufficient. In fact, a self-sufficient human being is subhuman.” [...] If you want to be human, we are not going to be able to be human in isolation. It will be that we are human together.
Desmond Tutu
May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilitie s that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.
St Theresa
