Don’t Pretend

“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 Today I want to talk about the second of Dallas Willard’s three tips for being a good leader: don’t pretend.  Straight from the mouth of Jesus, who gives us a hilarious illustration to make His point, the message — to not act holier than we really are — is crystal clear. If we were listening to the Lord speak in Aramaic as He did when He originally gave the Sermon on

“Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: ‘Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.’” – Luke 12:1-3 One time, Jesus was talking to his disciples, and he said, Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. By the way, the word hypocrisy was not a negative term back then. Hypocrisy meant that you were acting as you would in a drama. Like how George Clooney is a terrific hypocrite. Jesus went on