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Bobby Stafford	A Man of Integrity		Christian Living	October 14, 2012

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?

• It can be defined as the continual adhering to a moral or ethical code.
• The state of being complete, no divided loyalties.  Our actions match our words.
• You are the same person regardless of where you are or who is with you.  You don’t “play the hypocrite.”
• Read Psalms 26:1-7

 II.   Examples of Integrity