"Here we touch the most important quality of Christian leadership in the future. It is not a leadership of power and control, but a leadership of powerlessness and humility in which the suffering servant of God, Jesus Christ, is made manifest. I, obviously, am not speaking about a psychologically weak leadership in which the Christian leader is simply the passive victim of the manipulations of his milieu. No, I am speaking of a leadership in which power is constantly abandoned in favor of love...The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the downward mobility ending on the cross."
Henri Nouwen
In the Name of Jesus
