The Lasting Supper<\/a> I tried to manage a conversation that was getting heated. But my good friends there called me on it. I\u2019m thankful for that community. I\u2019m still learning.<\/p>\nI also know what it means to be managed. I have served pastors and leaders who I really cared about. I loved them and their ministries. It wasn\u2019t until we\u2019d already gone down the road that maybe Lisa pointed out my blind devotion to the man and their mission that had gotten out of hand. You see, even for someone who\u2019s worst fear is being trapped and controlled and who is passionate about his own freedom can get caught up in a person or program that threatens and even destroys these things he ultimately cares about. I have been broken in by pastors and leaders to serve them and their ministries and I not only didn\u2019t know it, but I invited it. They weren\u2019t malicious about it. They were sincere. But I was blinded by my own love, devotion, loyalty and sense of purpose and meaning and they used that to further themselves and their work.<\/p>\n
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