God can use times of crisis to remake leaders from the inside out. At first everything is fine. Church leaders have effective ministries and no big questions that need answers. They have a way of seeing the world, and it makes sense. Then God unsettles them. Sometimes, it’s a personal crisis. Sometimes, it’s a ministry crisis. It may be a growing sense that there has to be more. For whatever reason, they are unfrozen. Like the children of Israel in the wilderness, the leader can’t go back, and they don’t know how to go forward. They’re lost. We may think of the wilderness as a place to avoid,
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