It was George Orwell who observed, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." To whom will you "back down, stammering instead of speaking truth?" With whom will you "soft peddle" a position? Who do you treat "tenderly" for fear of alienation? Who will you not "debate" when God's glory is not recognized? The fear of other people has crippled many a leader, and we have seen it in politics and in the corporate world where one sometimes must manage "the thoroughbred" Sales VP whose ethics are questionable, but whose results seem to rule. Speaking the truth in love takes confidence, patience, and submission to the Holy Spirit – a task of the wholly devoted follower of Christ.
Are you that?
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