When You're Leading Someone You Didn't Choose

Every leader has one — the person who drains the energy, resists direction, and takes three times the effort of everyone else combined. Every parent, every manager, every mentor eventually faces the person they didn't choose and wouldn't have. This episode is about what genuine devotion looks like when it's most costly — and why the test of servant leadership is never the easy people.Romans 12:10 doesn't qualify who deserves devotion. Paul wrote this to a deeply fractured church full of people who hadn't chosen each other, and he said: be devoted, honor one another above yourselves. The episode digs into what that standard actually requires — not tolerance, not professionalism, but something that looks more like love than management — and asks the honest question about what's actually behind the difficulty of the hardest person in your sphere."Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves." (Romans 12:10, NIV) Today's challenge: think of the most difficult person you currently lead or relate to, find one genuinely true thing you can honor in them, and tell them — not flattery, something real.