Comments on: Seeing Through the Stat(isti)c(s) http://djackson.stscs.org/archives/172 Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget Your statutes. - Psalm 119.83 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Geoff http://djackson.stscs.org/archives/172#comment-14251 Geoff Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:17:11 +0000 http://djackson.stscs.org/archives/172#comment-14251 I remember when I used to read a lot of eastern religious texts a particular Taoist phrase caught my eye as particularly relevant to Christian leadership. "The existence of the leader who is wise is barely known to those he leads. He acts without unnecessary speech, so that the people say, "It happened of its own accord"." Now, the groundwork of this saying is unacceptable to Christian thinking, but its method is still helpful. Our chief matter [as Christians and more so as leaders in Christian churches] is to make much of Jesus and of others. I remember when I used to read a lot of eastern religious texts a particular Taoist phrase caught my eye as particularly relevant to Christian leadership.

“The existence of the leader who is wise
is barely known to those he leads.
He acts without unnecessary speech,
so that the people say,
“It happened of its own accord”.”

Now, the groundwork of this saying is unacceptable to Christian thinking, but its method is still helpful. Our chief matter [as Christians and more so as leaders in Christian churches] is to make much of Jesus and of others.

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