Sublime

Go back to the personal Truth you identified in the last exercise. You’ve failed to deliver on your promises. You’ve denied responsibility for your role in conflicts. Someone close to you says he’s working on himself, but really isn’t.

Think about an area of life where you might be lying to yourself. Maybe you’ve promised to do something and you keep putting it off. Maybe you put all the blame on the other person whenever you have a fight with them. Maybe you’ve deluded yourself into believing someone close to you (spouse, friend, etc.) was working on himself when in fact he’s

Your lie has been

Audiences always disassociate themselves from hypocrites.

We have no sympathy for managers who don’t back their words with actions. Granted, no one is perfect, and we all fail to live 100% up to our ideals. But some company leaders don’t even live up to 25% of their ideals. Their talk is rhetoric. Their insincerity is nauseating. They don’t deserve to be leaders. And, indeed, they certainly will not build

Jesus condemns few things more harshly than hypocrisy and selective religiosity.

On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practice the very antithesis of those principles.