A real role model

“There was a pastor with a church in Pittsburgh. He was an older man and for 19 years he did a good job, but he died. The church didn’t name a replacement right away, they just went on for five or six years without a pastor and did not miss a beat. How could they thrive for so long without leadership? The pastor who died had told people that he had never felt that he was in charge. He led the church, but was not in charge. Profound. He raised up people in the church who became football chaplains, Sunday school teachers and shelter workers. He raised up elders, ushers and role models. The pastor had influenced a lot of people not by being in charge or over them, but by living among them.”—Follow Me to Freedom: Leading As an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne and John Perkins

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Would that his tribe would increase!
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