November 19, 2023

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” – Matthew 7:3-5 I want to talk about the second tip for being a good leader: don’t pretend. Straight from Jesus, the message — to not act holier than we really are — is crystal clear. If we were listening to Jesus speak in Aramaic as He did when He originally gave the Sermon on the Mount, the humor in His story would have been apparent. Jesus paints a vivid picture of a