The Clay Pot Conspiracy: God’s Plan to Use Weakness in Leaders is a pastoral leadership book by Dave Harvey, published by New Growth Press. Its central message is that God does not waste the weakness, sorrow, fatigue, loss, and hardship that ministry leaders experience. Instead, Harvey argues that God uses those very frailties to make leaders more dependent on Christ and to display the power of the gospel more clearly. He sums that up with the book’s core idea: human weakness