Cross-Shaped Leadership

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 contras...