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5 People Leaders Know They Can Count On

5. You can count on the friend who paid a heavy price to help you in the past. They need no letter of reference; they have proven themselves.

Paul said, “Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who for my life risked their own necks, to whom not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles; greet the church that is in their house” (Romans 16:4-5).

Start a church in your own house in the first-century Roman Empire and you might as well draw a target on your back. Yet, this is what Aquila and his wife Priscilla did.

Was this what Paul meant when he said they “risked their own necks for my life” or did they do something else, something riskier, more courageous? No one knows.

But we do know this. Those who have paid such a price to support God’s ministry in you can be counted on in the future. And, those whose lives are daily on the line for the Lord Jesus Christ “will do to ride the river with,” as the old westerners used to put it.

Count on these people.