Hey, I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything show, affectionately known as Joe,

where around here you will always hear honest conversations about life, faith, and true strength,

courage and love in the midst of our real, everyday life.

Talking about things greater usability in season seven, going through

parts of First Samuel in these eight weeks, this month really zeroing in on Saul and what went

wrong in his usability journey. I mean, he served for 42 years as King of Israel, but we know that

he never truly became God's man. How in the world does that even happen? We talked about usable versus unusable last week,

broke down some of our misconceptions and the truth about that, and this week, it's all about

positioning. Does where we are determine how effective we will be? People with greater

followings on social media, well-known pastors or figureheads, is that who will be the most usable in the

kingdom of God? I can't wait to talk about that. If you're in, I am in, so let's get into it.

So I think there's an assumption that we have that when someone is in a position of influence,

that that position automatically equals kingdom

usability, as far as at least a spiritual person of influence. And I want to say right off the

bat that it is not true. I don't know if you've ever heard anyone say this, but it's widely

known in business circles that positional leadership,

positional authority is actually one of the lowest levels of authority you can have in the

sense of your effectiveness with people. In other words, you can be a boss that is over people,

that oversees people, but if they simply do what you say because of your position,

that's actually a very low-level leadership because there's only organizational respect, which in the end doesn't

produce well in companies. Because of course, we know that people produce much more when they are

motivated by things like appreciation and love and respect, that's when you get the

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