A minister must always go in advance of his people
August 18, 2022โข101 words
A minister must always go in advance of his people. He must lead them in thought. It is tragic when a minister is not the intellectual leader of his people. If his conceptions are the conceptions of the average man, if his ideas are the safe and commonplace ideas of the general community, if in his attitude to great reforms he is not in advance of the crowd, if in pulling down strongholds of evil, many are more aggressive than he, he is not a shepherd.
โJefferson, Charles (2012-10-16). The Minister as Shepherd (Kindle Locations 638-641). Digital Puritan Press. Kindle Edition.