The difficulty confronting the churches in the organization of a small group movement is the lack of leadership for such groups. Most of us lack the confidence required to assume this kind of responsibility. We have discovered over the years that even the people who know how to administer churches, banks, corporations and hospitals have no idea how to nurture a small group so that its members deepen their lives in Christ--learn self-knowledge, how to listen and to care--the deep nurture of the spiritual life so essential for the recovery of vision and passion.
The lack of servant leaders is being experienced in the whole of society. One looks in vain today for those who are using their strengths and gifts and riches on behalf of the common good. In all of our institutions is a yearning for the presence of the fearless ones in whose company we will be able to put aside our own fears and begin to hope and exercise imagination.
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