On leadership and Leadership

Christian leadership is the art of building channels for the Water of Life to flow freely and in the abundance our Savior promised. Good Christian leadership is about kindling the flickering flame and mending the bruised reed.

In a more broad sense, leadership is about making positive change and opening pathways, even at the risk of allowing people one may not like to come closer and pose challenging questions.

Wherever we are, we all are in a position of leadership- at church or at work; at home or at school... In the short run, people may applaud the skillfulness in destroying the opposition, or one's ability in having people to change their minds and, rather than to face a war of attrition, submit to the inevitable. Is that the way we operate as priests and politicians, husbands and wives, teachers and managers?

On the long run, if leadership is to be written with a capital "L" rather than being written off, it will be about bringing people together for the greater good, and enlarging people's imagination in such a way that the "my-way-or-the-highway" mindset is contentedly set aside and a life-giving "we are in this together" is embraced.

"A smoldering fire He will not put out" (Matthew 12:20)