In this episode of the Heaven Now series, Chris walks through one of the most uncomfortable leadership case studies in Scripture — King David’s silence after Tamar’s violation, and the hidden-agenda coup that silence produced in Absalom. Drawing on 2 Samuel 13–15 and Jesus’s encounter with the woman at the well (John 4), Chris unpacks the identity fear of vulnerability — how it shows up as proving or hiding — and how the fruit of the Spirit of gentleness (and its Beatitude counterpart, “Blessed are the meek” from Matthew 5:5) is not weakness but power under direction. A practical teaching for any leader who knows they’ve been avoiding a conversation they can no longer afford to skip.

WEEKLY REFLECTION:

1. Who in your life has never actually met the real you because the version they know is the one you let them see?
2. Is your energy in relationships really a way to avoid being known?
3. Who is the person in your life right now who needs the direct conversation you have been avoiding?

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