Substance and content over style and hype any day.
1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.
It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.
Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.
Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.