So it's appropriate to imagine that God will use your life for his influence and his

purposes that's leadership.

Not because of your perfection or your lack of failures or inconsistencies.

But precisely because of those things,

your story becomes a testimony to the power and the grace and the mercy of God.

That's a very important principle. Our God is a God who restores.

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Pastor Allen. Be blessed. I want to start a series and I don't know how long we'll

work through this but we're going to take a few sessions and talk about leading with faith.

What would that look like?

I think we need a biblical worldview in forming our leadership.

In fact, it seems to me that we're suffering from a tremendous lack of leadership

at almost every level of our society.

We seem to have forgotten that character is the cornerstone of leadership.

The recipe for leaders doesn't begin with talent or celebrity or even success.

Leadership begins with an awareness of what God is doing,

what he's asked us to do, and then I would submit our determined pursuit of that objective. That really is the

expression of leadership. It's a word that I think is often overused. But there is a need.

You see, God redeems our character.

And from the brokenness of our lives,

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