EMPOWERED THROUGH WEAKNESS
As ordained minister and Life Pacific College professor Terry Samples shares, God often uses leaders’ weaknesses, as well as their strengths, to inspire and teach. By Terry Samples, in Devotionals January 29, 2016 One of my most embarrassing experiences took place a number of years ago as I was about to speak in Brazil. The church was a very significant church in the area, filled with people and life, and I was the first person from the U.S. branch of The Foursquare Church to visit. TERRY SAMPLES To honor the U.S. church for sending missionaries to Brazil, the pastor asked to wash my feet in front of this large congregation. It was a very moving experience, but one that I had not been prepared for. As the pastor and his wife knelt before me, weeping, they began untying my shoes. As they removed my shoes, I remembered there was a large hole in my sock. I began to squirm in my seat to make sure the congregation did not see my holes. A humbling leadership principle is th