Leadership �“ “I am the path” (E.Stanley Jones)

E. Stanley Jones told of a missionary who lost his way in the African jungle. He could find no landmarks and the trail vanished. Eventually, stumbling on a small hut, he asked a native living there if he could lead him out. The native nodded. Rising to his feet, he walked directly into the bush. The missionary followed on his heels. For more than an hour they hacked their way through a dense wall of vines and grasses. The missionary became worried: “Are you sure this is the way? I don’t see any path.” The African chuckled and said over his shoulder, “Bwana, in this place there is no path. I am the path.” (Today in the Word, May 1996, p. 24).