Ambition Ineson Emma
Ambition Ineson Emma 'Be encouraged by Bishop Emma's advice and inspired by her wisdom and humour.' JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Counting things is very much on the table at the moment. Why…
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Ambition Ineson Emma
'Be encouraged by Bishop Emma's advice and inspired by her wisdom and humour.' JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Counting things is very much on the table at the moment. Why do they sit so uncomfortably in a Christian context? But what is the theology around notions of ambition and success?
So, we need to ask, what is right about ambition for the Christian leader? After all, growth is not the preserve of big business when viewed through the lens of the story of God and his people. And what were Jesus' views?
Inevitably (because everything interesting is paradoxical), success and failure are close bedfellows. The single most successful event in the history of humankind - the victory of love over sin and death - looked very much like one man, naked, shamed and abandoned by most of his followers, hanging on a cross. If we keep a vision of the Kingdom of God at the centre of all