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A few years ago I got a phone call from the fraud department of the bank that supports my VISA card.

\u201cMr. McDonald, we\u2019d like you to confirm a couple of expenses that were recently charged to your account.\u201d  Whenever I hear those words, I always take a deep breath.  I wonder what grabbed their attention.  \u201cHow can I help you?” I asked.   

\u201cDid you have lunch at Applebee\u2019s on the northwest side of Indianapolis last Friday?\u201d

\u201cYes, I did,\u201d I answered, remembering the Southwest Chicken Salad I had ordered.

\u201cGood,\u201d said the nice lady from the fraud department.  \u201cLater that same day, did you make two purchases of perfume in Barcelona, Spain?\u201d

\u201cUh, wait, let me think a moment.  Definitely not.\u201d <\/em>

Somewhere in the digital cloud there was a computer algorithm that had discerned I am an Applebee\u2019s kind of guy, not someone likely to be buying fragrances in Europe.  I am immensely grateful that the fraud department called this issue to my attention before my wife called this issue to my attention.

We all need fraud detectors in today’s wired world.

We also need a fraud detector in our personal lives \u2013 in particular, someone who is close enough to us to say, \u201cHow can you even be thinking about doing what you\u2019re thinking about doing?\u201d 

We need at least one person who knows us well enough \u2013 and is brave enough<\/em> \u2013 to call us out.

The leadership landscape is littered with top-drawer CEO\u2019s, celebrated coaches, and high-profile pastors who didn\u2019t have a such a person close enough to confront them. 

There was no one on their executive team, in their circle of friends, or in their family room who had been empowered to say, \u201cStop!\u201d <\/em>

Their cataclysmic falls from grace are a continuing reminder that sometimes \u2013 perhaps far more often than we imagine \u2013 we cannot see the foolishness of our own behavior or discern the limitations of our thinking unless a trusted friend or mentor is there to tell the truth.  It may be that we will have to recruit such a person:  \u201cWould you be willing to watch my life and speak plainly to me about what you see?\u201d

As the writer of Proverbs 24:26 puts it:  \u201cAn honest answer is the sign of true friendship.\u201d

VISA hates fraud because it hurts their bottom line. 

We need to despise our own moral, ethical, and spiritual phoniness because it has the capacity to damage not just our own lives, but everyone around us.

Ask God to provide you with one of life\u2019s great treasures: a friend who\u2019s not afraid to call \u201cfraud.\u201d

Just because they love you.     <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago I got a phone call from the fraud department of the bank that supports my VISA card. \u201cMr. McDonald, we\u2019d like you to confirm a couple of expenses that were recently charged to your account.\u201d  Whenever I hear those words, I always take a deep breath.  I wonder what grabbed their attention.  \u201cHow can I help… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,56],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accountability","tag-mentors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}