In order to be able to assume the responsibility for other people’s growth, leaders must themselves have grown to true maturity and inner freedom. They must not be locked up in a prison of illusion or selfishness, and they must have allowed others to guide them...
We can only command if we know how to obey. We can only be a leader if we know how to be a servant. We can only be a mother—or a father—figure if we are conscious of ourselves as a daughter or a son. Jesus is the Lamb before the He is the Shepherd. His authority comes from the Father; He is the beloved Son of the Father.
Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, 1989 - quoted on Out of Ur.
2 comments:
R. Thanks for this - good to share wisdom. But I was wondering about the Lamb-before-Shepherd bit...that might be Barthian. Good stuff though.
I have to say that left me pondering a little too (which ain't a bad thing, I guess). Do you think that a reference to Heb. 5:8,9 might have been a more helpful way of expressing the same thing?
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