Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:34 pm
Hi Peggyo, Will and Robert. I heard a story yesterday that might be relevant to this dream.
This apparently happened on 9/11. Some bankers or executive-types, with their expensive suits and million dollar deals in their briefcases, entered an elevator in Tower 2 along with a window washer. When the plane hit the tower, the elevator stopped. The bankers got on their cell phones to their personal assistants and commanded them to get someone to make a priority of opening the elevator.
In the meantime the window washer took a mop handle and pried the doors open. He saw that they were between floors, but due to his knowledge of the building ascertained that they on the other side of the wall from a men's restroom. He bashed a hole in the wall under the sinks just big enough to crawl through, then pulled the bankers through after him and led them out of the building just before it came down.
The question the speaker posed was, "Who was the leader here?"
I think we need to reconsider leadership in the church. Leadership is not necessarily about positions, offices, paychecks, formal education or heirarchy of authority.
In a time of crisis, when there are serious questions, the person with the knowledge of the answers becomes the leader. Sometimes we need to be humble enough to recognize that God chooses to work through whomever He pleases in order to lead us. Even a window washer --or a child, or a homeless woman, or a mentally challenged teenager can be used by God to lead at a particular moment. No ordination (or male bits) or certification or media promotion required.
I think the plain-looking unadorned woman in your dream, Peggy, is like the window-washer in the story. She is part of the unpretentious, "just folks" army that the Lord is preparing. They will understand the authority they have in Christ.
This apparently happened on 9/11. Some bankers or executive-types, with their expensive suits and million dollar deals in their briefcases, entered an elevator in Tower 2 along with a window washer. When the plane hit the tower, the elevator stopped. The bankers got on their cell phones to their personal assistants and commanded them to get someone to make a priority of opening the elevator.
In the meantime the window washer took a mop handle and pried the doors open. He saw that they were between floors, but due to his knowledge of the building ascertained that they on the other side of the wall from a men's restroom. He bashed a hole in the wall under the sinks just big enough to crawl through, then pulled the bankers through after him and led them out of the building just before it came down.
The question the speaker posed was, "Who was the leader here?"
I think we need to reconsider leadership in the church. Leadership is not necessarily about positions, offices, paychecks, formal education or heirarchy of authority.
In a time of crisis, when there are serious questions, the person with the knowledge of the answers becomes the leader. Sometimes we need to be humble enough to recognize that God chooses to work through whomever He pleases in order to lead us. Even a window washer --or a child, or a homeless woman, or a mentally challenged teenager can be used by God to lead at a particular moment. No ordination (or male bits) or certification or media promotion required.
I think the plain-looking unadorned woman in your dream, Peggy, is like the window-washer in the story. She is part of the unpretentious, "just folks" army that the Lord is preparing. They will understand the authority they have in Christ.