Why do gifted Christian leaders fall—and what kind of formation helps us finish well?

In this episode of the Lausanne Movement Podcast, Jason Watson speaks with Malcolm Webber about why so many Christian leaders fall—and why the answer is not simply better information, stronger gifting, or more ministry activity. Malcolm invites us back to Jesus’ way of forming leaders through union with Christ, accountable community, tested character, God-given calling, and Spirit-shaped competencies.

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Malcolm Webber is the founder and executive director of LeaderSource, an international ministry focused on developing healthy Christian leaders and strengthening churches around the world. Originally from Australia, Malcolm came

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What if God loves you more than anyone you’ve ever loved?

Think about someone you deeply care about, someone you would do anything for. Now imagine this: God loves you even more than that. He knows everything about you and still chose to give His Son for you.

But if that’s true… why do so many of us still feel powerless?

In Ephesians 1, Scripture says there is an immeasurable greatness of power at work in those who believe - the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. And yet, many of us don’t live like that power is real.

In this teaching, Francis unpacks what it means to truly believe what God says about us. Not only our identity, but the way we live, fight sin, and love one another.

Because this power was never meant to be lived out alone.

We were designed to be one body with many parts, each of us uniquely gifted, deeply needed, and called to build each other up in love. When we step into that reality together, we begin to experience the kind of life and community Jesus prayed for.

In this special The Reconnect with Carmen podcast, Do you feel overcome by guilt and shame? We revisit our conversation with Linda Mintle of the Dr. Linda Mintle Show on Faith Radio as she offers help for letting go of guilt and how it binds us. 

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It’s fine to look out for number one—as long as we understand who number one really is. Dr. Tony Evans explains how freedom in Christ leads us to serve others instead of ourselves.

Before Jesus can use you, He has to disrupt you — and that's actually good news. 

We all love the version of Jesus who comforts us, encourages us, and comes alongside us. But what do we do with the Jesus who confronts us? Because that's exactly who we meet in Mark chapter 11. 

This story is situated in Holy Week, and as Jesus enters Jerusalem for the last time, everything is about to shift. The crowds are cheering, palm branches are flying, and people are crying out Hosanna — God, save us! It's a high moment. And then Jesus walks into the temple... and turns it upside down.

Here's what I want you to see today, because this is the passage that gets misused more than almost any other: you are not Jesus in this story. You are the temple. Before Jesus can use any of us for anything, He has to come in and disrupt the systems inside of us that keep us from real worship — the appearances, the transactions, the religion-without-transformation that can look perfectly healthy on the outside while bearing zero fruit.

We also dig into the curious moment when Jesus curses a fig tree — and why that's not about Jesus needing breakfast. It's a prophetic symbol, pointing to the same problem in the temple: the appearance of life without the substance of it. Looking good on the outside, but not actually connected to God at all.

And we sit with something I find both hard and beautiful: as the story enters Passion Week, Jesus doesn't just overturn tables — He goes on to suffer. He allows things to happen to Him because He knows what it's accomplishing. And because He went ahead of us in that suffering, we are never alone in ours.

We can't have a life that's Jesus plus anything. It's Jesus plus nothing — and that actually ends up being everything.

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• Read along: Mark 11:15–19 (and the whole chapter for full context)
• Cross references worth exploring: Ezekiel 36, Jeremiah 8
• Resource mentioned: The New Living Translation Study Bible
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