"As I read the book of Ruth this morning I was so impacted by Ruth's willingness to glean. Gleaning was good old-fashioned manual labor: gathering leftover crops after a field had already been harvested. In a sense, it was the ancient welfare system. But it wasn't a free hand-out. It was back-breaking work. And it took a spirit of humility. There was nothing glamorous about gleaning. But Ruth was willing to do it.
Can I borrow that metaphor? Leaders are gleaners. They glean everything they can from everyone they can! It harkens back to something that has been attributed to everyone from Ben Franklin to Thomas Carlye to Ralph Waldo Emerson. I'm not sure who said it first, but it's such good advice: 'Every man is my superior in some way, in that I learn of him.'"
How smart it is to gather knowledge from others. We spent the day learning about what those who came before us figured out; and then shared ideas of how we can take that knowledge, adapt it to our needs and move into the future to grow the church.
Pastors Greg and Daniel led a full day of seminars that was attended by over 40 people from all over Bulgaria. The discussion was lively and the ideas were many.
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