22.06.06
Be a Hero! (1 Corinthians 16:13)
As I talked about in my lecture on Sunday night on the Da Vinci Code, the society in which we live has moved from being one dominated by institutions like the government and the church, to being one which is deeply suspicious of all authority structures and all figures representing them. We are instantly suspicious of, and cynical about Glasgow’s governmental structures and possibly even the religious institutions which dominate our culture. We are members of a society which has a powerful anti-authority mood. And yet, in the Christian church, and in particular the Scottish Presbyterian Church, the one thing we distinctly lack are real leaders – and not just leaders in the sense of decision-makers, but leaders in the sense of role models. One of the biggest complaints I hear from Christian young people is that they lack older role models, those who will model what being a Christian in 21st Century Scotland is all about. And so, I thought I would encourage us all here tonight, and especially those in positions of leadership in the congregation, to start being role models.