Christian leaders are urgently needed, leaders who take seriously what the Gospel says: “You are the light of the world and the salt of the earth”.
Under the title «It's up to me».» Gabriel María Abascal, L.C., offers his first book, focused on the formation of Christian leaders capable of helping this world to live in justice and charity. Regarding this book, the author offers the following review:
One day in December 2017, I was in one of the few bookstores in the city where I live, looking for book titles to give as Christmas gifts to the young people I work with. Honestly, I did not find what I was looking for and when I was about to leave, a little book on Christian leadership caught my attention, which hardly looked like a brochure. As a young man I had read all kinds of literature on the subject. However, I had found very few titles that openly related faith with leadership. So I got curious and started flipping through it. Honestly, it was not what I expected, but suddenly, I received a light that paralyzed me for a moment and said: “Why don't you write it?.
I got in the car, put the gas pedal to the metal, arrived at the chapel of my house, and with pen and paper in hand, I began to write the table of contents of what would be my first book. To tell you the truth, I am 100% honest: at the beginning I was not entirely convinced by the idea either. There are so many books, so many conferences, so many seminars, so many experts, and it is such a hackneyed and hackneyed subject that it is like throwing a bucket of water into the sea. About leadership Gabriel? I was debating within myself. On the one hand, I thought: What am I going to contribute when it seems that everything has already been said? But on the other hand, there was a voice inside me telling me: Christian leaders are urgently needed, leaders who take seriously what the Gospel says: “You are the light of the world and the salt of the earth”.
And that is how this adventure began, and today I invite you to join it by reading this book to the end. For, although it is true that too much has been written and spoken about leadership in recent decades, it is also true, and you will agree with me, that never more than now we need authentic leaders, points of reference, beacons that illuminate our path and help this world to advance more surely towards a necessary experience of justice and charity.
