Sermon on leadership

the point grace beyond eu and peace from dada father and the lord jesus christ let us pray we're outside the jesus of nazareth about christ of god or by greyson wisdom speak words of understanding and conviction to our hearts all men we are increasingly aware that we are all members of an exodus society that we are moving out of one stage into another an exodus is motivated by you know the promised land this is a generation and that has had a vision of a new world where true land of promise which lies ahead a society where all barriers are broken down divisions are deals threats to human life or eliminated

poverty and disease he raised a man living together in concord and peace such a vision of utopia is not unique to this age of course the thomas moore wrote about it francis bacon and dreamed of the new atlantis and cabin alice pope of the city and the song what is different in population is that there is thirty and there's pros and i'm ready to hand knowledge and technical skill that should enable asked them know from where we are in this exodus of the land of promise where we want to be in the moment should be steady and revenue but in any exit a situation there will inevitably be a re responses and we in

america in nineteen seventy were beginning to seem that freefall evasion takes place at wrigley's predictable response teams on the one hand the immobilized members of the right who do not want to travel who have no desire to take part in any exodus they do not want a packed their bags they want to remain pleased generally it represent the most fearful side him on a segment of our population for the study of history is certainly illustrates one thesis but those will be a police fear the most those will believe the least and the promises that are ahead

when you travel one sees this response demonstrated in the history of the ancient greeks and the class of people known as a software sales you remember although as companies calls socrates as soft as socrates a bradley tried to escape this label cause he did not want to be identified with this particular group of itinerant teachers bus office for skeptics they believe that there was neither natural law nor divine law no problems nothing fix nothing on which man and society might be owed and again probably the most high minded of all the softness was generous with his famous dictum that man is the measurable things of what they are that

they are and of what they are not that they are not whatever we happen to say is the product of accumulated wisdom of the ages it is a matter of arrangement with a lot of society we know has been built up gradually all over the century as it is a delicate balance and joy and art rock the boat do not attempt to change anything do about dr abdul walk in and they anticipated change you are merely according to ash all feel that any criticism or any suggestion of an exodus that would involve our society is the courting of chaos there is lewis was on another minority the

watchword is exodus now they want to travel but they want to make the trip by jack and they want to arrive not tomorrow but yesterday they're the ones you can see in a dream a possibility of it's being fulfilled in an apocalyptic for that is to say it must be given it now simply arrive on schedule they refused to put out the effort or to involve themselves in the struggle or to take the time and energy in order to make real the dream has appeared before age this group reminds me most of the flower children in germany after world war one and the weimar republic and i wanted to participate in an exodus now the great problem with this mindset is that when they do not get their wants now

then they're able to say we have been betrayed by their leaders or by the system or by the establishment or by anything else read it and to argue and they feel afraid to become cynical when the nazis began to march out of the beer halls of bavaria their first followers were the betrayed and now cynical flower children of iraq but the day i'm most concerned not with the reaction of those to mobilize them static on the right or the romantic an apocalyptic on the lam i'm more concerned with the reaction of america those who also have shared that dream lit had the vision for their education and understanding of been able to lay a hold of an

idea of a world far better than the one in which we live but just at the moment that the vision seemed to command and to combat and it has become no because they have taken a second look and the world they thought would be brought into being through technical wisdom and skill for all the power of science and technology now seems to be not worth the airport it seems that the object of five and computerized work seems to be rutan ideas live standardize all relations depersonalize mankind rather than achieving your birthday being homogenized into a bihari oren and this is the border that have caused a

parenthesis and which we are now in culturally in america a parenthesis on which we have squared off to begin a great debate about the nature of the society toward which we are proceeding and parenthesis is now i had certain weaknesses especially a failure of murder that takes one back to the story which was read from the book of numbers out of the original experience of israel in the exodus remember that this story begins when moses has brought the pilgrims' out of egypt and they are approaching the promised land point you chose is twelve men one from each of the tribe's all leaders and demands then to spy out the land

traveling from the south to the north and then the south again to say whether the land is sophisticated and strongly whether the cities were awarded well protected or whether the land is weak and the people primitive see if the land is able to support this army of displaced persons who will be passing through it and the spices go carry out their task return and make their report report is divided into a monarchy and the majority report i'm an audit came out and josh you were say land is strong what we may strong we're able to possess the majority again say no it

is a land that the hours its people war on terror that we saw the giants the sons of a mac which come other giants we were in our own site and grasshoppers and so we were on their side of the problems and it will be an ink beginning the great debate and the grasshopper bureau yes you know andy roddick is one you're right they say build a dream and a psychotic occupies them and a psychiatrist i suppose collection red off them then you're right it is not as bad as being a psychotic but you're still dysfunctional and basically we are a dysfunctional people

what we need a dual system will be on certain weaknesses and the first is the paralysis of leadership especially the paralysis of the liberal leadership at the present moment some of you will remember as moore's book an epitaph for dixie years old faces is that the problems for the past fifteen years i've come primarily because most into training background experience and gift should be leading i refuse to exercise leadership and therefore the extremists the strident voices the little man with the bitter and mean spirited as they have been the ones who have moved to the forefront to fill the vacuum it is a tragedy but boston should be leading to

death in the great debate and suddenly found themselves paralyzed and have become masochistic they see the problems and are frozen before they simply say i have no answer beat me again let me harder rev up your rhetoric make me feel guilty or am guilty or i'm guilty and this is rough way a description of most of the conference's our homes or a symbol is we've gotten worse as a calvinist as a calvinist i admit that there is a deal that is real and strong and healthy and gotten forget it a lot of thought and say that we're the midst of a period of guilt as a nation and this is not a strong guilt it is paralyzing and sick a second response

has been a really a waveform that goes of unity the strongest woman in society today is in the opposite direction and it is during the re privatization of mankind or everyone and is seeking a smaller rival within the context of his drive his identity for those characteristics that will be different but make life different and that will give them a certain authenticity that he feels that he has lost or else that is being imperiled and the sort of society in which we live with our development is a flourishing romanticism as the nineteen sixties clothes and the seventies open romanticism that drives one back to the beginning of the nineteenth century immediately following the moment then wasn't and classicism with its

barrel and stultifying four but the ethos is the same today there is a rebellion against structures being repressive and rebellion is a battle ribbon there is the anti rational flight from intellect in favor of emotion and feeling there is a rejection of the corporate in favor of the individual junction of the average of the norm in favor of the exceptional of the mall rejection of the complex difficult in favor of the primitive or simple easy but in the beginning of the nineteenth century it's primarily a movement going back about you and i'm convinced that these various movements that i've sketched in broad strokes or basically a generation's quest for that uber represents

basically a religious reformation requesting for more of your mom and more you made bad deals and relations characterize the world in which we shall i think dead rose act in his description of the counterculture is really making the same point but the counterculture is a deliberate step outside an object defying scientific culture it is an attempt in many different directions to find a new form of light in which he's your man will have the first priority and you will read a basic characteristic of all human relations because of the situation of your suggestions i think their only practical guidelines

addressed not only to those who are under thirty one addressed to those of us who have moved beyond that magic and rather arbitrary figure what first got my wish in the midst of the great debate that is going on in our nation concerning the nature of the society and which we shall live and the character of america for the next generation it is terribly important that we enter into and share the different perceptions of different groups that are speaking agonizing to be heard today is the worst or they're closed by hand or the uptight personality each generation each racial group has its own perception it's all in perspective of what is real

and what is right and it is incumbent on us to share these perceptions is not merely coexistence pluralism is yet existence the second deadline is to begin to take seriously the desire for new priorities that preferred this has written a book entitled technological man with a subtitle the myth and the reality this is a sober well judge the book by a man who says that the new amanda technological man you know much more myth than reality barnett is still the old man with the new technological poland what we're being catapulted willy nilly into another siege qualitatively different from any that is ben

we are raising all sorts of questions about the relations among nations about the nature of environment about conditions for human survival about the nature of our city is a strain of our electorate and unless we are willing to move beyond business as usual and to set up a new scale of friday's than the leadership that should be ready will be lost simply by people the rebirth of competence and we're better off today in the midst of the great debate that we were before the debate was joined as long as we lived smuggling and complacently the kindle was right and nothing was wrong as long as we lived with the myth of our innocence thinking the tragedy is impossible for america and americans then it was later than we thought but now we began to awaken to the enormity of the

problems before us war race poverty family and the rest in a nation that has awakened is a nation that has taken the first and perhaps the longest step toward the solution of its problems the data suggest that we must now begin to acquire what john gardner's blog a shared vision the generation that would drive a long i've been asked to accept many new things become to terms with many new reality is we've had to come to terms with religious pluralism when we were born into a nation that we thought was brought us it was a but we thought so we lived with a myth we'd have to come to terms of racial what we want into a nation that we thought was why that was and we thought so and we lived with a myth we've had to come to terms with a new perspective with regard to the balance of power and the balance of terror throughout the world

we've had to come to terms with a great deal this has caused a shaky of confidence a crisis of neuroscience we are in our own site now as grasshoppers what i'm suggesting is a poor young all of us black white and brown or lovers or challenge to acquire a new and shared vision of the sort of land the nation and which we hope to live and for which we cannot work and family let me suggest that the latest ingredients that the christian and brain to this whole process is the element of no in your gifts and education and

training your required not the technical skills and mastery is to get what knowledge as you know well is not enough to equip a nation it is the function of a leader to supply whole life your education and training supply your expertise your faith must supply your courage and hope the first of the latin church fathers once defined hope as patients with the lamp lit i believe the christian in nineteen seventy as a chance to exhibit to our society that kind of patience with the lamplit that would give the kurds and hope the more beyond the paralysis of the president for

instance and the next stage of the exhibition and that does not be more innocent people are you close with the name of the father