made decisions based on that fear.
That was poor leadership. This type of
leadership harmed the places I was
serving, it dimmed the dream, and it
put me in a trap. There is no greater
trap than fear. It is the opposite of a
faith-filled dream.
By the time I came back to Phoenix,
I had mostly overcome the habit of
making people-pleasing decisions.
I had learned to bite the bullet,
accept potential rejection, and
choose the best decision anyway.
Recently, at a community fund-raiser,
a ministry colleague and I found
ourselves sitting at a table with ten
guys I didn’t know. The subject of
churches came up, and one guy
became particularly vocal about his
disgust with a certain local church.
“That place has so much traffic
during the Christmas season that it
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