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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 161 - Leaving a Legacy by Learning to Lovingly Lead

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, the guys discuss how to leave a legacy by learning to lovingly lead. When leadership is not exerted in the right way or with the right heart, major tragedies can ensue. Today, the church is in big trouble as we live in this “celebrity Christian pastor” era. Being a pastor, however, means to be a shepherd of a local flock. Preaching to your people alone should be the highest priority. When we act as leaders ourselves or gravitate towards other leaders, we should be looking ...

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0:00.0

Legacy is for presidents, you can have a library made after you, or if you want a real

0:08.2

good legacy, you get shot and killed while in office.

0:11.8

And then you're exalted to an iconic status and the legacy stays for a couple hundred years.

0:17.4

But you think, just talking about legacies, because I studied the legacy.

0:22.0

I can name some names that the whole world knew, names like Carrie Grant and John Wayne.

0:27.6

John Wayne is that an airport in California.

0:29.2

So it means to this generation, so legacy means nothing in this world, so transient.

0:35.1

And when we come to Christ, the legacy we worry about is our legacy before God.

0:39.7

That's all that matters.

0:40.5

He first, the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added.

0:43.2

Who cares about legacy?

0:44.2

But we want to reach this world, even after we die, we want to still have our legacy

0:49.7

reach this world in some way.

0:55.6

They told me grandfatherhood was wonderful, amazing, extraordinary.

1:03.7

They lied to me because it's far greater than that, friends.

1:09.7

But I'll tell you something that's even greater than becoming a grandfather.

1:12.3

It's becoming a grandfather, writing a song for your upcoming grandson and having it approved

1:20.8

by mom and dad.

1:22.6

You guys know I write songs for my grandkids.

1:25.8

I can't do that one yet because it's fresh and new and rich on that.

1:30.3

How many times do you have to practice something before you go public?

1:32.2

No, Rachel did hear it because I was recording it last night in the room driving her crazy,

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