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Being a Better FollowerJEANIE MILEY

I’m having a leadership crisis. Well, maybe it’s a following crisis I’m having, andI’m not enjoying it.

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Where is the leader who has done his moral inventory well enough to be aware of his own character defects? Where is the leader who has enoughconsciousness to govern her own life so she will not inflict her weaknesses onanother person? Who has the humility to own his own mistakes withoutblaming someone else or hiding them behind some kind of pious or plasticcovering?

So cocooned in their own world of self-absorption, these leaders have lost touch not only with who other people are but who they are behind the façade. This new growing edge is hard, but I’m determined to be a betterfollower.

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Many of the problems that Christians faced in the NewTestament continue to challenge us. The circumstances ofour time in history may differ, but the basic issues are thesame. All believers—past and present—are concernedabout how Christians are to live and serve as communitiesof Jesus’ new covenant in the times, places, and worlds inwhich they find themselves. The writer of 1-2 Peteraddresses how we can respond when our culture treatsus in ways that are unkind at best and cruel at worst.

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October 4 Defining Failure and Success (2 Timothy 4:1-8)October 11 Does Failure Equal Sin? (Matthew 4:1-11)October 18 Failing Successfully (Luke 22:31-34, 54-62)October 25 The Role of Grace (Ephesians 2:1-10)

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