All over the world, wherever God places us on this planet, there are little redemptive communities with leaders who are doing their best to chase back the darkness of depravity with the light of the transforming love of Christ. When such leaders say that their churches, their ministries or their marketplace endeavors are alive and blazing with the light of Christ, I am filled with hope. But fires don't ignite spontaneously. They burn when a leader sparks a flame. A city built on top of a hill cannot be hidden.
Leaders ignite the lights that push back the darkness.
Take a quick trip through the redemptive history of the Old Testament. Moses, a Joshua, an Esther - who breathed new life and light into a faith community, and Kingdom hope was restored. In faith communities all around us, leaders in this generation are doing exactly what the heroes of faith did in theirs - beating back the encroaching forces of darkness and evil in this world. Since God raises up and uses leaders to impact the world, being called by God into leadership obviously is a wonderful thing. Yet it can be all too easy to take for granted how wonderful it really is.