Author Frank Damazio defines the characteristics, function, and motivation of vanguard leadership and encourages leaders to break free from the stagnation, mediocracy, and complacency of the past. It encourages them as well to concern themselves with the traits of a vanguard leader: purity, strength of character, a spirituality formed by the Holy Ghost. This will yield a church able to chart a clear course through the troubled waters of the twentieth-first century.