Quote -- Being versus Doing

A quote about busyness and productivity by J. Robert Clinton

“The major work is that which God is doing to and in the (young) leader, not through him or her. Most emerging leaders don’t recognize this. They evaluate productivity, activities, fruitfulness, etc. But God is quietly, often in unusual ways, trying to get the leader to see that one ministers out of what one is. God is concerned with what we are. We want to learn a thousand things to do. But He will teach us one thing, perhaps in a thousand ways: ‘I am forming Christ in you.’ It is this that will give power to your ministry.”

—From The Making of a Leader by J. Robert Clinton.

Posted on: Feb 17, 2005
Last modified on: Jan 9, 2007

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