Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

I can't get my wife to agree with me on everything or my kids to agree with everything.

God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

The church must always show compassion, always.