A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders

by Mark Sayers

Gray zones are filled with pressure and chaos, yet they are where God does something exceptional inside His people, calling leaders to Himself in a new and more profound way.

The reality of constant connection ate away at the markers that formerly rooted people in place, giving them an identity.

Yet it was those middle and upper classes enjoying this unprecedented period of stability, comfort, and predictability that were most ravaged by the gnawing anxiety.

By classifying anxiety as a personal issue rather than a systemic issue, we place an enormous burden on the individual, who then must modify their personal lives to alleviate the suffering that anxiety brings. Instead, Friedman taught leaders that they must understand that anxiety resides in networks of human relationships.

As we will discover, the structures that we build to soothe our anxiety, to protect us, can prevent the activation of the seeds that God has placed within us.