And from my own city of Houston, Texas, here’s Victoria and Joel Osteen! No, they aren’t Witnesses, but they’re an example of running a ministry of encouragement, rather than discouragement and judgment.
Actually, I’m a little burned at Joel these days, not so much because he was slow to help his fellow citizens of Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey (Sept. 2017). But rather because he gave such a lousy and seemingly pretend justification after the fact. At least it seemed that way to me. And as part of the co-ministry, I guess I’m a little burned at Victoria, too.
Now, on the subject of leadership . . . . . we might rhapsodize that we'd rather have a grass roots movement in which we're all leaders and that we all encourage and teach other. But in the real world, whether business, medicine, education, science, government, religion, etc, etc, often it takes energetic leaders who are merely good-enough listeners . . . . . in order to get things done!
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