Can I give you a little insight into great men of God?

They have a sense of mission that expands beyond their own life.

They are not driven by ambition, they are driven by mission.

They are not driven by their own sense of success or their own need to attain, they are consumed by the bigger picture.

And it was far more important to Paul that the work go on than that his life go on. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Jonathan Edwards was the leading voice in the Great Awakening, one of history's greatest

revivals, and it was when Edwards was a teenager years before he became a pastor and a theologian

that he wrote this resolved that I will do what I think to be most to God's glory, whatever difficulties I meet with,

and no matter how great they are.

How can you live with that kind of commitment and bring glory to God even if it leads to trials and

ridicule and persecution. John MacArthur is going to help with that today. He's beginning

a series titled Unashamed, designed to help you live with an unwavering faith.

John, you're beginning this study with a lesson on spiritual leadership, so as we get started,

let me ask you this, what motivates you in your

ministry? What are you charged up about in this, your 55th year leading Grace Church

and leading this outreach that we call Grace to you.

Well I've always been driven by the same dominating reality and that is my view of scripture.

I am convinced beyond equivocation that the Bible is the word of God, that it is the truth, that every word is true, and that my responsibility in the world is to proclaim every word of divine truth and

to proclaim it accurately.

I've always been driven by the truth.

I love the truth. I study the truth. I preach the truth.

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