"One who would be a leader, I am cautioned, has a greater weight of responsibility to honor the despised, share his earthly possessions, model interdependency, and encourage the use of gifts concealed in the unlikeliest among us. To the leader, then, the gift of humility is offered - the gift is the salvation of the proud, which comes from great difficulty from learning to receive from those who are least on Earth, yet greatest n the Kingdom.
:: Robert Lupton: "Compassion, Justice, and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor."
Jesus 2008
ReplyDeleteWe have been watching the movie Gandhi in my leadership class the past two class session.(I am planning on writing a post about it) I think that he might have been one of the best examples of "honor the despised, share his earthly possessions, model interdependency, and encourage the us of gifts concealed in the unlikeliest among us." After watching the movie I have rethought alot of the ways that I have thought about things,
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that I thought about once I posted that last comment is a quote that was stated in the movie and I have read as one of Gandhi's quotes on various websites is this. "Poverty is the worst form of violence."
ReplyDeleteI like that movie a lot. I respect Gandhi a lot and I want to learn more about him.
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