Nature itself teaches . . . leadership
The second Test of the 2009 Lions tour to South Africa began a few minutes ago – a must-win match. One of the questions being asked is about the quality of the leadership on the field, both with regard to the captaincy and the standard being set by key men in key positions.
In 1997, the Lions won their tour to South Africa 2-1. The captain on that occasion was Martin Johnson, now England coach. Earlier today, former Wales number eight Scott Quinnell – himself a man of mental and physical strength – was asked about Johnson’s captaincy:
People ask me what sort of leader Martin Johnson was – if he asked me to run through a wall now, I’d just go and do it. He’d have made it easy, really, there’d be a big hole where he’d already gone through before.
Is there not at least a faint reflection there of the leadership supplied by the Captain of our salvation? Is this not the kind of leadership that men of God ought to be supplying in the church today? And do we not need men and women ready to follow such leaders through the holes that they are willing to make, even at great cost to themselves?
