This episode starts on a pontoon boat with donuts, chocolate milk, a cast net, and Beau being asked to hold fishing equipment in his freshly orthodontically engineered teeth.

The goal: catch mullet.

The result: mostly bad spread.

Naturally, we eventually arrive at servant leadership and Romans 2.

In this solo episode of Quite Frankly, Beau talks about cast-net fishing, Milton Quality Bakery donuts, boat-ramp egos, all eight species of bear, Fat Bear Week, Pokémon humiliation, Mexican Train, tennis, broken car-wash parts, Florida football, Brett’s increasingly questionable allegiance to the podcast, declining attendance, discouragement, servant leadership, Romans 2, outward obedience versus inward transformation, and the danger of making good work about ourselves.

Because there’s a problem with taking credit when things are going well:

When things stop going well, you’ll probably take that personally too.

Maybe the numbers aren’t the point.

Maybe leadership looks less like protecting our reputation and more like following the example of Jesus — giving ourselves up, washing feet, serving people, standing on truth, and allowing the Holy Spirit to transform the heart.

The closer we become to Jesus, the less impressed we become with ourselves and the more impressed we become with the grace of God.

Also included: several minutes of bear knowledge that absolutely nobody requested.

Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/48Dq262W476WbTWzIKaCma

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