Leadership Letter #9
Does Holiness Matter? Recently my wife and I were out for a lunch with long-standing friends and colleague’s. During the course of catching up on family news the musing question, “Does holiness still matter today?”gave a reflective pause to our animated conversation. Internally, I had an immediate visceral reaction along the lines “Of Course It Matters!!!” Now I recognize when a question pushes a button and the response is more adrenalin-driven than wisdom-driven it is likely an important question. So important in fact, that a quick response is not appropriate, but nonetheless a response is needed, even if it for my own clarity of thinking. The question also implies that holiness as a word is not much in vogue in most conversations, at least in the context in which we were talking, our adult children’s generation. If holiness or holy are used, they are biblical words that tend towards a floating, ephemeral definition; and floating definitions may be used positive