Follow the Leader // Week 2: Clarity & Vulnerability // Pastor Blaine Keene + Testimony by Josh Riggs

Jesus-like leadership begins with clarity of identity. Clear identity produces clarity of purpose. Jesus-like leadership requires vulnerability and suffering. “Reluctance to face pain is your greatest limitation. There is no growth without change, no change without loss, and no loss without pain. . . You’ll grow only to the threshold of your pain. . . .If you’re not hurting, you’re not leading. Your vision for the future has to be big enough to propel you to face the heartaches and struggles you’ll find along the way.” - Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth "And he said, 'The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.' Then he said to them all: 'Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.'" -Luke 9:22-24 NIV