the quiet swelling of the ego, the shifting to a more autocratic style of leadership, the manipulation of other people to build our own significance. While this is less shocking and less likely to make the news, it is no less serious. Once a pastor has left the ministry as a result of believing the lie of the achiever, there is still hope. Some pastors accept responsibility for their sin. They accept the charges that their ego was out of control and that they had relentlessly pursued the building