From the Wisdom of Henri Nouwen:

I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of
the future is called to be completely irrelevant and
to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his
or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus
came to reveal God’s love. The great message that
we have to carry, as ministers of God’s word and
followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because
of what we do or accomplish, but because God has
created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to
proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.
-Hoody in AB