Choices, Invitations and Invisibility

In Fuzzy Leadership, there is room provided for all (at whatever the stage of the Journey they are in) to make choices. There is no coercement; there is exhortation. There can be confrontation.
But the confrontation that Jesus presented His disciples left room for them to make choices.

In John's Gospel account, Jesus is talking about how His flesh is true food and His blood true drink and to get eternal life one would have to partake of them. At this point several of those who had been following Him left. This was too much for them. At this point Jesus turns to the remaining disciples and asks:

"Do you also want to go away"?

Notice no where does He deride those who have left. Nor is His question rhetorical or manipulative.
It is simple and direct. And it is inviting . . . for not to go away is to come closer. Peter sees the invite and, responding from the heart (though his intellect was involved, what Jesus had just spoken previously of was "a hard (offensive) thing") says:
"Who can we go to? You have (hold) the word (Rhema: Living, Breathing) of eternal life".

It has been said that God offends the mind to reveal the heart.
I also believe that He offends the mind to free the heart.

For true relationship, for true Love to happen, there has to be freedom.

Next up: Invisible (but present) leadership. Or, in other words, how "not being there" can be of real benefit to others.