Welcome to Leadership Now with Dr. Aaron Rock, hosted on Beachhead Media, the Fight

Laugh Feast Network, and other podcasting platforms. Aaron has served as a pastor, chaplain,

denominational leader, professor, and writer, and he is a desire to help others think

Christianly about all of life. On this show, we will discuss the nuts and bolts of theology,

church life, ethics,

apologetics, culture, politics, and other issues to help you lead better now.

As always, I am your host, Jesse LaFranbois.

And to get this show started, we have a couple of questions for our listeners to consider.

So do you feel like you have a lot to offer the world, but nobody really listens to you?

Or maybe you work really hard at cultivating relationships. You put a lot of effort into building relationships with people, but you find that you often come up empty or it

doesn't bear fruit. Or do you feel uneasy or uncomfortable about yourself in social settings? Or

maybe you have a passion for ministry and you

really want to serve Christ, but you've been overlooked and kind of boxed in where you're at.

If you answered yes to any one of those questions, we believe that this podcast series that

we have entitled, Deadly Personality Traits traits will be of interest of you.

In this series, we're going to be discussing several different personality traits that really

hold people back from flourishing, not just in relationships, but also in their vocation

and in their ministry.

Now, Aaron, I'll be honest, when I'm hearing these things and when I'm looking at this topic that we've chosen, it almost kind of seems like you're trying to make people feel bad about themselves, or you want to kind of nitpick everything that's wrong with people. Is that what you're going for in this podcast series? Pretty much, yeah. Okay, good. Well, actually, what I'm trying to do is I'm using this in a passive-aggressive way to target you, Jesse, to deal with some issues. I was reading through this and I was like, this really seems really unbelievable. Yeah, since you were listening to be one-on-one, I figured if I, if I expose you on my podcast, then you'll actually have to listen and leave in. A little more accountability.

Just kidding.

Well, there's obviously umpteen dozen things we could discuss when it comes to personal traits.

But I want to highlight these not to tear people down, but to build people up.

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