I just picked up a book by Bill Hybels.  He wrote about Jesus willfully violating "widely accepted leadership laws.  It’s a short book but I kind of got stuck at the first law that Jesus willfully broke:  Build a Team of Highly Qualified Leaders.

When Jesus chose his leadership team, he picked out the "untrained, uncouth (not refined), and underage."  The more I read, the more I saw myself in the first disciples’ life.  I couldn't help but look back on my own discipleship journey and let me say that I'm glad that our college pastor, Bruce Ho, willfully violated this leadership law.

I was very opinionated, rough around the edges and my main gifting was in the ministry of offense.  I am not sure if it was a calculated decision on Bruce's part that I became a part of the campus team but one thing I'm sure of, he was faithful to work with the students that he had.  For that I am grateful for the opportunity to grow and learn under P Bruce's leadership. 

That's why I am so glad that I'm a part of a movement that values the next generation.  My prayer is that we would be faithful to the task at hand and take full advantage of the tremendous open doors that we have.