INTRODUCTION Thomas Brooks said, “Example is the most powerful rhetoric.” He was right. The single greatest tool of spiritual leadership is the power of an exemplary life. Along with the principles for living that the Bible gives us, we need models to follow because we tend to be creatures led more by pattern than precept. We are better at following a pattern or a model than we are at fleshing out a precept or principle. What makes examples so powerful? Why is it “the most powerful rhetoric”? An
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