Church leadership

Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund-raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers (though these assets may be helpful), but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ—passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.—Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child, 127

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Or, rather, it should be entrusted to such as those. Unfortunately, it seems it rarely is : (
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