A great comment about yesterday's post...

So, I usually don't comment on comments :-), but Lee Davis, a newhoper, wrote me on Facebook and said this about my post yesterday on MythBusters and Leadership. PLEASE read down to the last paragraph/quote from past President, Teddy Roosevelt - it is AWESOME and well worth the read! Thanks Lee...

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Pastor Benji,

I just got finished reading your blog about leadership. I agree with you that a true leader is one that can make those hard decisions and does so even knowing that he will never please everyone. I too grew up in South Carolina (Hemingway) around the same time you did. I knew my pastor well outside of church and can remember there were times when he and the elders of the church had disagreements on the direction our church was or was not heading. I appreciate what you do and am continually impressed with newhope church. As you are leading the way for others to follow, I thought you might like the following quote:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." (Teddy Roosevelt in a speech titled, "Man in the Arena")

Keep on fighting the good fight - Lee Davis