For Lutheran pastor John Berntsen, the cross is about more than the
crucifixion on Good Friday. It is shorthand for the whole drama of
salvation--God's decisive act of reconciling the world to God's own
self. The cross is dying and rising with Christ, but at a deeper
level it is the story of the world's resistance to grace. Those who
lead are subject to the cross no less than others. In contrast with
the current fashion for "visionary" or "purpose-driven" leaders,
cross-shaped leaders are not primarily the providers of master
plans, nor are they master builders. Cross-shaped leadership is
provisional, contextual, and fallible--open-ended ministry that has
the character of a pilot project. It is always under construction
and revision. Our moment-by-moment functioning in ministry is
subject to countless deaths and resurrections, few of which are
heroic or glorious. But Berntsen offers good news within this
potentially dismal perspective. He writes, "Once we've accepted the
truth that ministry is hard, even impossible--once we've stopped
living in denial of this reality, or perhaps whining about it--it
becomes the truth that sets us free. We cease being gloomy
servants, weighed down by our resentful conviction that we are all
alone in our work--the closet atheism born of the worry, 'If I don
t do it, nobody will'--and instead become joyful coworkers of a
strong, wise, and consoling Lord." With optimism, humor, and deep
empathy, Berntsen's Cross-Shaped Leadership offers hope and
challenge in the midst of the rough and tumble of parish practice.
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