We have diminished conversations about sin or ungodliness or immorality or self-denial or personal sacrifice. Those just weren't topics we wanted to pick up.

We have preferred things like self-fulfillment or prosperity or cultural approval. Well I'm the opinion, and it's my opinion that God has initiated much of this season

for the purpose of awakening his people.

We're being disciplined, we're being prepared. We're being trained if we choose to be.

If we will cooperate with God, I believe we'll be deployed. We'll be given

assignments in new ways.

It's a very important time to turn our attention to the Lord.

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Be blessed.

We're spending a little extra time in the Gospels these days.

I hope you're doing the Bible reading with us.

I hope more than that you you've accepted the invitation

to 40 days of spiritual disciplines. I'll talk a bit more about that but the title

for this particular session we're working on a series called

Leading with Our Faith, I'm of the opinion where we have a leadership deficit.

But we have to reimagine leadership. I think we've thought about that in terms of talent or celebrity or a title or an office or being put in a place in an organizational chart and I'm grateful for all of those things that have some value

but you can have an office and a title and a spot on an org chart and not be a leader.

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