Quote of the Week: Letters to the Church

Our Father thinks all His children are extremely gifted.  God is convinced He did an amazing job in creating each of them and supernaturally empowering them.  His desire is to see all His kids serve to their full potential.  He placed church leaders on the earth to ensure this would happen.  Few people understand this to be the role of their church leaders, and the leaders themselves often don't understand their role.  Leaders have become like personal trainers who lift the weights for their clients.  They run on the treadmill while their trainees sit and marvel.  Then we wonder why we the people aren't developing.
(Letters to the Church, Francis Chan, p. 91)