When Leadership Emerges

When leadership emerges, it must be somehow trained;

or otherwise its vices might run without restraint.

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The shaping of new leaders requires our sacrifice.

Obedience, repentance and learning are the price. 

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When we install as leaders the ones who will command,

we tell them that they’re trusted, and hope they understand.

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The trappings of the office, and ceremonies held, 

are necessary parts of the stories that we will tell. 

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Photo:  by Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Source:  Leviticus 8:2-13

Text:  David Alexander, 2021  CC BY-SA 4.0

Tune:  Hambridge, Public Domain    

Score: https://www.smallchurchmusic.com/2018/Score/InParadiseReposing-Hambridge-Chords.pdf 

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