{"id":36643,"date":"2022-04-29T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/rise-of-influencer\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:23:00","slug":"rise-of-influencer","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/rise-of-influencer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Influencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been said that everything rises and falls on leadership. Leadership occurs at every level of any organizational system. You don&#39;t have to be the CEO or part of the management team to make a difference.<\/p>\n\n<p>Over the last decade, we have seen the exponential growth of social media. According to the We Are Social report, 3.484 billion people actively use social media &#8211; that is 45% of the world population. 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