The task of future Christian leaders is not to make a little contribution to the solution of the pains and tribulations of their time, but to identify and announce the ways in which Jesus is leading God’s people out of slavery, through the desert to a new land of freedom. Christian leaders have the arduous task of responding to personal struggles, family conflicts, national calamities, and international tensions with an articulate faith in God’s real presence. They have to say “no” to every form of fatalism, defeatism, accidentalism or incidentalism which make people believe that statistics are telling us the truth. They have to say “no” to every form of despair in which human life is seen as a pure matter of good or bad luck. They have to say “no” to sentimental attempts to make people develop a spirit of resignation or stoic indifference in the face of resignation or stoic indifference in the face of the unavoidability of pain, suffering, and death. In short, they have to say “no” to the secular world and proclaim in unambiguous terms that the incarnation of God’s Word, through whom all things came into being, has made even the smallest event in human history into Kairos, that is, an opportunity to be led deeper into the heart of Christ.