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Book: In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
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  1. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    Often I have the impression that priests and ministers are the least confessing people in the Christian community
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    The loud, boisterous noises of the world make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God. A Christian leader is called to help people hear that voice and so be comforted and consoled.
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation that allows them to enter into a deep solidarity with the anguish underlying all the glitter of success, and to bring the light of Jesus there.
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  4. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    It is not enough for the priests and ministers of the future to be moral people, well trained, eager to help their fellow humans, and able to respond creatively to the burning issues of their time. All of that is very valuable and important, but its not the heart of Christian leadership. The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness?
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  5. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    The loud, boisterous noises of the world make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God.
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  6. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    I have found over and over again how hard it is to be truly faithful to Jesus when I am alone.
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  7. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    I also came to see that I should not worry about tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. The more willing I was to look honestly at what I was thinking and saying and doing now, the more easily I would come into touch with the movement of God's Spirit in me, leading me to the future. God is a God of the present and reveals to those who are willing to listen carefully to the moment in which they live the steps they are to take toward the future. "Do not worry about tomorrow," Jesus says, "tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" {Matthew 6:34}.
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  8. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her vulnerable self... to enter into a deeper solidarity with the anguish underlying all the glitter of success and bring the light of Jesus there.
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  9. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    When spirituality becomes spiritualization, life in the body becomes carnality. When ministers and priests live their ministry mostly in their heads and relate to the Gospel as a set of valuable ideas to be announced, the body quickly takes revenge by screaming loudly for affection and intimacy. Christian leaders are called to live the Incarnation, that is, to live in the body, not only in their own bodies but also in the corporate body of the community, and to discover there the presence of the Holy Spirit.
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  10. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.
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  11. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life."
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  12. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of GOD...people who are so deeply in love with JESUS that they are ready to follow HIM wherever HE guides them, always trusting that, with HIM, they will find life and find it abundantly
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