http://djchuang.disqus.com/strategist / networker / ideator / unconventionalenSat, 10 Dec 2005 19:03:44 -0000http://www.djchuang.com/2005/offline-act-of-kindness/#comment-2185060<p>hey Andy. aren't you reading a little to much into this?</p>ScottSat, 10 Dec 2005 19:03:44 -0000http://www.djchuang.com/2005/offline-act-of-kindness/#comment-2185059<p>DJ,</p><p>Love your website, been perusing it now for about two months.</p><p>Since you don't know me, I've been emboldened to make a few comments your latest journal entry about meeting Tim Keller.</p><p>Based on what you wrote, I believe that if you grew up in the 1930's in Germany, you would have been a Nazi. If you had grown up in China during the Mao years, you would have been a Communist.</p><p>You see, your journal entry betrays a "leader-idol" predisposition in you. Anyone who approaches leaders with a certain amount of trepidation and hand-wringing (as you openly acknowledged), only to gush profusely afterwards about the kindness and magnetic aura of the person, has a certain predeliction and innate hunger to follow, and to follow blindly. There is nothing wrong to follow great leadership, in fact it can be a Biblical mandate, but there is a fundamental difference between following a great leader, and blindly following a charismatic leader.</p><p>This is not a slight on Tim Keller who is a great leader and Christian. But he's just a human after all, something your gushing comments seem to almost bypass.</p><p>Compare your comments on meeting Keller with comments made by someone who met Mao:</p><p>The occasion was another dinner party to which my father had been invited and permitted to bring a daughter. It was Mao's 70th birthday. By 1963, of course, I was no longer a young, ignorant teenager. I considered meeting Mao to be a rare honor, and I was filled with excitement. Mao seemed relaxed, talking to his guests and laughing often. At one point he turned to me and asked what I was doing. I answered nervously that I had finished college and was a teacher of English. Mao smiled kindly and said he could not believe that I was already a teacher. Then he asked if I would like to take him as my student. I was embarrassed and stumbled over my reply. I said, "How dare I teach you, Chairman?" Mao laughed a little and said, "Why not?"</p>AndyThu, 08 Dec 2005 15:52:40 -0000http://www.djchuang.com/2005/offline-act-of-kindness/#comment-2185058<p>Wow - is this the fame Tim Keller whom sermon was published and quoted around so much?</p>bumbleThu, 08 Dec 2005 01:36:46 -0000