A senior pastor especially, his closest friends, are outside of the church.

It's not their associate, it's not their assistant pastors.

It's some random pastor who's too busy to ask difficult questions, to hit them up because they're busy themselves.

Pause. Take that honest assessment look inside the mirror and say Lord

search me and try me see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.

Where am I currently at?

What do I need to do?

What do I need to confess?

Because God will not bless or fill a dirty cup.

You can't. You may fool people this side of heaven,

but every private sin is an open spectacle in heaven, Van Zavner said.

So we take that honest assessment and then we take that

step of faith to communicate. To communicate to people who have run their race before them.

And you just talk and let the cards fall where they may.

But unfortunately, what happens is you have these pastors

who get paid very little, who don't know how to do anything else, and so they don't know where

to turn. They don't know what to do. That is a difficult situation because they've set themselves

up for failure, and now you have people that are looking at them as

hypocrites as they should. I read a quote from Spurgeon. Nothing stinks more than hypocrisy.

Of course, right? Hippocrates is a person who acts different on Sunday morning.

You're not fooling anyone and you're not going to get away with anything.

So acknowledge the truth. Don't cover it up, don't deny it, because it's

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