Digital Cloth¿ Cover - Blue What do you do when everything you built to prove you matter starts to crumble? When the platforms you climbed feel more like prison than purpose? When the applause you chased leaves you emptier than the silence you feared? Leadership Was Never the Calling is one man's confession about mistaking position for purpose, visibility for value, and influence for faithfulness. Eric G. Reid spent years climbing ladders-collecting certificates, chasing stages, building platforms-convinced that leadership was his calling. Until the mic stayed on too long, the invitations stopped coming, and the slow descent began. This isn't a book against leadership. It's an invitation to something deeper: the sacred work that happens when no one's keeping score. Through late-night wrestles with God and kitchen table discoveries, Reid explores where the divine actually shows up-not in the spotlight, but in his son's breathing, his daughter's fierce dreams, his spouse's quiet wisdom, and the ordinary moments that turn out to be holy. Written in the spaces between certainty and questions, these pages follow the six-beat rhythm of surrender: the story that exposes, the idol that must be named, the Kingdom reversal that changes everything, the mirror that reflects truth, the descent that delivers, and the benediction that makes it real.

Between chapters, raw journal entries reveal the unguarded moments when performance finally stops and presence begins. For anyone weary of climbing, exhausted by platforms, or suspicious that greatness might be quieter than applause-this is your invitation to step down. To trade the stage for the basin, the title for the towel, the false summit for the hidden field where real fruit grows.