'Humble faithful idiot': the gospel thrived on weak vessels
The episode's thesis lands: 'your gathering of people who love Jesus should be able to survive a humble faithful idiot.' For most of church history the only leader around was a humble faithful idiot who could read John 3:16 and pray — and the gospel survived and thrived. That is the caution: if your faith needs a talented man on the platform, it was never built on Jesus. The JFK-ISH aside: people come to a church to see what it can do for them instead of what they're doing for it.
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