Welcome back to Culture and Christianity.

Today, I just finished a book.

It's called Lead with Faith.

But I almost think that the subtitle is the best window into the theme of the book,

Using Your Influence for God's Purposes.

That's going to be our topic today.

Spoiler alert, I've done about 25 interviews around the book, and I've been a little surprised.

I did this as a series in the church a few years ago, and we had a really good time with it here

as a congregation. I felt like it gained some momentum. In fact, behind the curtain a little bit,

the topics that make it into books are the topics that we don't want to get lost in the

unending series of messages. Some ideas seem so important that we want to capture them so they can

be more easily shared and we put them in a book. And so we thought this idea had such an

impact in the congregation that we put it in a book.

Now, I've done about 20, 25 interviews with it, and I've been a little, I've been fascinated at the cool reception.

So I wanted the opportunity to sit down with you and unpack this idea a little bit because I really think it's important.

And I watched the impact it had on the people in the congregation across age groups, across professional scales, across academic diversity.

The idea found a way to resonate.

So I'm going to try to do this and not do it as a sermon.

I didn't bring a list of scriptures.

I'm sure I'm going to refer to some because that's how I communicate.

But your influence in your sphere, there are people that look at your life and they care about your opinion.

Maybe not as many as you would like, maybe more than you would like, but there are people that look at your life and they care about your opinion. Maybe not as many as you would like, maybe more than you would like, but there are people that care about your opinion.

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