1 Timothy 3 Part 2: Qualities of True Leadership

Stuart writes:
"We want something better than second hand religion and borrowed theology and stolid unkindled churches which are merely efficient and competent machines dealing with reality at a distance, and sending earnest seekers away with an aching and disappointed sense that something vital is lacking. We want that thrilling sense of immediacy, that directness of touch, that spiritual drive and momentum which only a personal encounter with God can ever impart.
I came into the town wrote John Wesley in his journal, and offered them Christ, to spend your days doing that, not just describing Christianity or arguing for a creed, not apologizing for the faith, nor debating fine shades of religious meaning, but actually offering and giving men Christ. Could any life work be more thrilling or more momentous."