The Heart of a Leader

Published: March 4, 2008, 1:38 a.m.

b'In his Lent 4 sermon Glynn looks at Samuel\'s anointing of David over his brothers to be Saul\'s successors and remarks on how timely a 2500 year old passage of scripture can still be today. He goes on to explore what is leadership we can believe in.\\n\\n"1 Samuel 16:7: \\u201cBut Yahweh [God] said to Samuel, \\u201cDo not look on one\\u2019s appearance or on the height of one\\u2019s stature\\u2026 for I do not see as mortals see. They look on the outward appearance, but I look on the heart.\\u201d\\n\\n"It\\u2019s a great verse for the ugly, fat, and impotent! Power and looks are something that we are all meant to aspire to and never quite be satisfied with. Wouldn\\u2019t it be great if Hollywood chose its stars on the state of their hearts?\\n\\n"The context of the verse though is leadership \\u2013 it is part of the \\u2018Rise of King David\\u2019 legend. " Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=447&id=817.'