Our Actions Should Match Our Talk

“Do as I say, not as I do” may be a common saying, but most people understand that the greatest leaders are those whose actions match their words. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary” (Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Letters and Social Aims,” https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/emerson-the-works-of-ralph-waldo-emerson-vol-8-letters-and-social-aims). This truth is also illustrated in James 1:2...