Do your homework—acquire the proper authority to address the topic at hand. Love your audience—open yourself up to their vulnerability, their fears and dreams, their ambitions and failures, and see them for the image bearers they are, with their own authority and capacity. And then be yourself—bring your own authority and vulnerability together, in all your beloved incompleteness, in their presence. Like all the best maxims, it is both utterly simple and a life’s work to fulfill.
