Looking for a few good leaders

Mike Metzger writes a great article about the need for “contrarian leaders” in churches these days; prophets you might call them.  The Point tipped me off to the article which briefly highlights my own alma mater and our esteemed president: USC and Steven B. Sample.  I never took Sample’s leadership course but I heard only great things about it.

Our businesses, communities, schools, and churches need a few good leaders these days.  Senators who will do what is right without looking for kickbacks, activists who lobby for causes not their own, business which do what is right because it is right, not because they must, pastors who seek God not advancement or growth.

Metzger also points out, “no prophet is welcome in his home town.”

I always find it interesting that I find inspiration from many of the same sources as bloggers at The Point.  It is all too common to devalue gay and transgender community members and I’m excited to have seen in my own life modern-day prophets who stand up and say: “God loves and affirms God’s gay and transgender children, just as they are!”  Individuals such as my YoungLife leader Stef Shaeffer, Rev Dr. (and Pepperdine alum) Paul Egerston, civil rights leader Rev Phil Lawson, and others who “prick the conscience” and as Point commenter Paul says “afflict the comfortable.”  Though they go against the grain in churches today, they stand for what is right regardless.

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