ministry who experienced personal moral failure within a two-year period. In other words, Hendricks was able to find nearly 250 men who derailed within twenty-four months of each other. That’s roughly ten a month for two years. Ten guys a month in moral failure. That’s two, almost three, guys a week. And each of them started strong. In the Christian life, it’s not how you start that matters. It’s how you finish. You may be thinking, “Those are interesting stories, but they really don’t relate to
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