We watched it happen live. And we recognized it.

That is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We watched a room full of educated, formed, credentialed people compete to offer praise to power — and something in us recognized the feeling.

Isaiah 1:17 has been waiting for this moment for centuries.

Learn to do right. Not as inspiration. As correction.

In today’s Elevate message — Find Your Spine — I walk through five layers of what that actually means. What it costs. What makes it possible. And why the week after Pentecost is exactly the right moment to say it.

This is not a comfortable word. But it is a necessary one.

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