There is a great secret good Christian leadership knows. Crisis is the springboard for vision. If we live in a time ravaged by skepticism, we surely must acknowledge such moments as also opportunistic. Personally, I am driven every day by a crisis I noted in religion from my earliest days as a child. That crisis? Anemic, pale, sickly, lethargic religion. Such rides a Trojan horse into every spiritual arena in hopes of capturing all dreamers.
Crisis causes dreamers to take action. Calvin Miller wrote, Often vision comes as the result of some tearing circumstances by which we come to an end of our own ability to make life work. My guestimate is that the good souls of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky are more benevolent, more freeing of their money and possessions this week than in the previous twenty-four months. Why? Tornadoes ripped their neighborhoods.
Compassion now takes over. Really, it begins to rule. Vision pole vaults crisis! It loves the challenge. It lives for such a time. So, dear believer, while some in your pocket of society bemoan the negatives which may be in abundance, just rememeber you possess a spirit...a Holy Spirit....who loves to strut His stuff when human minds start to retreat. Onward Christian soldiers....we've got dreaming to do!
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