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Thank-you to Derek for bringing this prophetic piece by Gordon MacDonald to the attention of a youth ministry prayer group of which I am a part. Please join us in reading this piece, lifting up this concern, and praying for ministry leaders to receive the grace/accountability to walk faithfully in Christ.

Note: These words probably strike a little deeper for me as a member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the organization in which MacDonald fell a number of years ago,

I've spent more than a little time trying to understand how and why some men/women in all kinds of leadership get themselves into trouble whether the issues be moral, financial, or the abuse of power and ego. I am no stranger to failure and public humiliation. From those terrible moments of twenty years ago in my own life I have come to believe that there is a deeper person in many of us who is not unlike an assassin.