Leader, how strong is your emotional immune system?

Matt Waldock  |  Comment
Date posted:  11 Jun 2026
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Leader, how strong is your emotional immune system?

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Who is the first person you always look for in a group photo? The answer, perhaps predictably, is yourself. But the more profound question is: Why do we always scramble to find out what we look like as if it were a secret that had been hidden from us all our lives?

The simple answer is that we do not know ourselves, and what we don't know, we don't entirely trust.

So, here are two questions leaders should ask themselves in order to adapt to the current challenges of church responsibility...

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