members, college roommates or coworkers? How many of us could imagine a leader today saying to the press, “Go ahead, I dare you; see if you can find any dirt on me.” Yet at one point Jesus faced off with some of the Pharisees who were bent on discrediting his leadership and said precisely this: “Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?” (John 8:46). Think how many leaders have had their influence diminished or cancelled out because, in spite of all they’d done or said, there was something hidden, something
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