Worldly leadership is often characterized by power, prominence, and privilege.

But this kind of self-centered perspective is vastly different from the kind of leadership that should characterize the church.

Welcome to Radical with David Platt, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt

delivered weekly. As always, you can find thousands of more Gospel

center resources over at our website radical dot net in today's message from

1st Corinthians chapter 4 we'll see how God's grace in the Gospel should shape not only our view of church

leadership but also ourselves.

Because everything we have is a gift of God's grace, we can flee pride in the temptation to live for the approval of others.

Our commendation comes from God alone.

Here's David Platt with a sermon titled, Viewing our leaders and ourselves in light of the gospel from

1st Corinthians chapter 4. If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does you can look on with I

invite you to open with me to 1st Corinthians 4 and also pull out hopefully you

receive that one-page sheet that has 1st Corinthians 4 on it and some

questions at the end. So if you're new here we use

an acrostic called maps that you see on that sheet that stands for meditate and memorize so just meditate

means just to soak in just read through slowly and soak in what the Bible is saying so meditate and memorize then apply it to our lives

Pray through that and look for opportunities to share that with someone else. So in just a minute

We're to do something similar to what we've been doing in previous weeks, but even last week we did in a unique way. We're going to do again.

So we're going to have a few minutes just to kind of walk through this passage and kind of meditate on your own and I want us to

think today about two particular questions that are under that M in meditate and

we're going to start by thinking about this first question. So according to this entire chapter,

I want to encourage you to read through the entire chapter

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