If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.
03276 – Serving/Leading
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03139 – The Purpose of Preaching
I propose that the purpose of preaching is not to be defined hierarchically in terms of the preacher pouring out the good news from above to the people below in the way that many claims of the preacher’s authority and purpose have traditionally configured. Instead, in...
01638 – Love Tends to Its Roots
Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive. from The Five People You Meet in Heaven
01574 – Seeing From the Perspective of the Suffering
It remains an experience of incomparable value that we have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed and reviled, in short, from the...