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Bobby Stafford |
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Man of Integrity |
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October 14, 2012 |
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A
Man of Integrity
Introduction:
In
his book Integrity, Ted Engstrom told this story: “For Coach
Cleveland Stroud and the Bulldogs of Rockdale County High School
(Conyers, Georgia), it was their championship season: 21 wins and 5
losses on the way to the Georgia boys’ basketball tournament last
March, then a dramatic come-from-behind victory in the state
finals. But now the new glass trophy case outside the high school
gymnasium is bare. Earlier this month the Georgia High School
Association deprived Rockdale County of the championship after
school officials said that a player who was scholastically
ineligible had played 45 seconds in the first of the school’s five
postseason games. ‘We didn’t know he was ineligible at the time; we
didn’t know it until a few weeks ago.’ Mr. Shroud said. ‘Some
people have said we should have just kept quiet about it, that it
was just 45 seconds and the player wasn’t an impact player. But
you’ve got to do what’s honest and right and what the rules say. I
told my team that people forget the scores of basketball games; they
don’t ever forget what you’re made of.”
Ted Engstrom, Integrity
After
surveying thousands of people around the world and performing more
than four hundred written case studies, James Kouzes and Barry
Posner identified those characteristics most desired in a leader.
In virtually every survey, honest or integrity was identified more
frequently than any other trait. (Kouzes, James M., and Posner,
Barry Z. Credibility: How leaders gain and lose it, why people
demand it. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993).
That should not surprise us. People want assurances that leaders
can be trusted. They may be political leaders, business leaders,
leaders in the educational field, or religious leaders. Each
Christian is a leader in his or her own way. Therefore, we must
walk in integrity.
Body:
I. What Is
Integrity?
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It can be defined
as the continual adhering to a moral or ethical code.
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The state of being
complete, no divided loyalties. Our actions match our words.
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You are the same
person regardless of where you are or who is with you. You
don’t “play the hypocrite.”
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Read
Psalms 26:1-7
II.
Examples of Integrity |
