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Greco: 'Don't Seek to Look Good - Do Good!'
CHICAGO, IL (January 30, 2001) - Art Greco closed out the Youth Workers Connection Monday morning encouraging youth pastors and others to aim for being good over looking good in their ministries.
Greco, director of evangelism and prayer for the Evangelical Covenant Church Department of Church Growth and Evangelism, gave the last of four sermons about what God most desires in a leader. He challenged those in attendance to aim for humility, which he called the most difficult quality of godly leadership (along with courage, faith, and 'yieldedness,' the qualities he mentioned in three previous talks).
In his sermon, Greco described humility as "the willingness to be perceived as insignificant in order to be faithful." He used John 6 to illustrate how a child helped Jesus feed some 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. Greco found it appropriate that the most influential servant in the story was someone whose name was never mentioned. He urged his audience to strive for the same attitude.
"There are two types of players," Greco said as he used his own previous high school coaching to analogize ministry leadership. "There are the players who get on the field, those more concerned about being good than looking good, those with mud on the front of their jerseys. And then there are the players who are only concerned about their appearance . . . and they only have mud on their backs because they're always getting knocked backwards. All they have on the front of their jerseys are cleat marks."
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