Our
age has been called the age of anxiety, and I think
it’s a good description for
this time. We no longer know
where our foundations are. When we’re not sure what
is
certain, when the world and our worldview keep being
redefined every few
months, we’re going to be anxious.
We want to get rid of that anxiety as quickly
as we can.
Yet, to be a good leader of anything today—a good pastor,
bishop,
father or mother—you have to be able to contain,
to hold patiently, a certain
degree of anxiety. Leaders
who cannot hold anxiety will never lead you to
anyplace new.
Expelling
what you can’t embrace gives you an identity,
but it’s a negative identity. It’s
not life energy; it’s death
energy. Formulating what you are against gives you a
very
quick, clear, and clean sense of yourself. Thus, most people
fall for it.
People more easily define themselves by what they
are against, by who they hate,
by who else is wrong, instead
of by what they believe in and whom
they love.
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