"Winning or losing the heart battles over confession, repentance, and humility is the difference between those who end well and those who do not. Why hypocrisy often wins the day is, I believe, because leaders learn the possibility of being “fruitful” without being pure. . .The scary reality is that most of these seemingly blessed and fruitful ministries led by morally compromising leaders will never be brought to light on earth. Many lives are “successfully” lived and many ministries are “successfully” operated apart from a vital relationship with and properly desperate dependence upon Jesus Christ. This is the great scandal of Christian leadership; this is what leaders should fear."
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When I write "female relationships," I am not assuming a need to exclude women from the fight for purity, but to acknowledge that most of the people who I am referring to who are finding the fruits in the aforementioned areas are men.
ReplyDeleteGood call. True leadership has integrity. like the old saying... "you can tell the measure of a man by what he does when no one is around"
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