“Conversations… That Never Happened.” Conversations that we might find in our halls of leadership today where people surround themselves with those who will make them look good, where people are hired and fired based on optics. Every time I hear one of these messages, I just want to shout, “Just like Jesus?” Jesus embraced the sinner, the loser, the shunned, the neglected, the poor, the strife-ridden, the sick, and the heartbroken. He did not create an inner circle of people that made him look good. Let’s talk about that.