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soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell”( Matthew 10:28).
The clay pot conspiracy reminds us that our weakness is the staging ground for God’ s power. But to what end? For the wonder to work in the leader, yes— but grace goes further. The grace-filled, adversity-surrounded pastor looks through the pain and says,“ It is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God”( 2 Corinthians 4:15).
Simple, yet eloquent; peaceful, yet potent; unassuming, yet undeniable; risky, yet unrelenting. That’ s the grace that fuels our trust.
Excerpted from The Clay Pot Conspiracy 2025 by Dave Harvey. Used with permission of New Growth Press. May not be reproduced without prior written permission. To purchase this and other helpful resources, please visit newgrowthpress. com.
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Dave Harvey, DMin, is president of Great Commission Collective, a church-planting ministry in North America and abroad. Dave served pastors and churches for four decades and travels widely across networks and denominations as a conference speaker. He’ s the bestselling author of When Sinners Say“ I Do”, The Plurality Principle, Stronger Together, and The Clay Pot Conspiracy. Dave and his wife, Kimm, live in southwest Florida. 62