Moral Leadership = Being Vulnerable + Getting Into Trouble

Submitted by Richard Burden on October 22, 2008 - 6:17pm.

This past weekend at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies in The Episcopal Church, gave a phenomenal sermon on Matthew 22:15-22. You can read the whole sermon here

Here's a taste

 

God requires us to act. We are called by our baptism to be moral leaders. We are required to go beyond moral authority and into the acts of moral leadership. To be a moral person, to be a moral Christian, a moral Episcopalian, to then to act on that moral authority and take moral leadership, requires sometimes, and more often than not, that we get into trouble, not stay out of trouble as the passive interpretation of morality would have us do (a moral person stays out of trouble). That is the way of the cross.
It is from Jesus, a servant leader, a troublemaker, that we take our moral leadership direction. And if we follow it, if we keep our baptismal promises, we are willingly vulnerable and we will get into trouble.

Blessed are the troublemakers...

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