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False Verus Flawed: Redeeming Character In the Age of Confusion
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
False Versus Flawed is built around a single distinction and spends fifteen chapters refusing to let the reader use it the easy way. The false protect the image. The flawed return to the truth. The difference is not the failure - it is what happens next, and whether anyone, including the person in the mirror, can honestly tell. The book opens on a real moment of moral collapse and does not look away.
Q. Wolfgang Watkins - bishop, executive coach, and longtime counselor of leaders - writes in a register that has grown rare: precise without being clinical, pastoral without being sentimental, willing to name what most contemporary leadership books work to conceal. He is not interested in tools for diagnosing other people, and he refuses to supply the checklist by which a fallen leader might certify himself ready. What he offers instead is a slower and harder examination - of conscience, of community, of the long un-self-administered work of being restored.
A serious book for serious readers - pastors, elders, executives, and any believer asking the central question of formation: who am I becoming when no one is watching, and would I know if I had drifted?
Restore him in a spirit of gentleness, keeping watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. - Galatians 6:1
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