The word of God is clear. We must decrease if He is ever to increase. As long as we are bent on increasing, He will leave us to do so....for a season!
They that exalt themselves, as Diotrephes did, will God bring low. The scriptural way up is down.
The mother of the sons of Zebedee longed for positions of grandere for the two.
Later Jesus showed the example of true leadership by humbling Himself, getting on His knees and washing the stinky feet of the apostles.
The 'humble message' is anathema to those who long to climb the ecclesiastical ladder of clerical specialness and esteem?
I heard a good one a while back. The speaker for the evening was being introduced...' Teaching tonight on the evils of pride and the iniquity of lavishing one self with exalted distinctions, won't you welcome the Good Reverend, and Doctor of hermeneutics, PHD renowned Author and Apostle, Brother J. D. Osuum!
We are to cast down imaginations((logismos: arguments and reasonings) and every high thing (hypsoma: heightened pretension)
Pretention: feigning oneself to a high position.
They that exalt themselves, as Diotrephes did, will God bring low. The scriptural way up is down.
The mother of the sons of Zebedee longed for positions of grandere for the two.
Later Jesus showed the example of true leadership by humbling Himself, getting on His knees and washing the stinky feet of the apostles.
The 'humble message' is anathema to those who long to climb the ecclesiastical ladder of clerical specialness and esteem?
I heard a good one a while back. The speaker for the evening was being introduced...' Teaching tonight on the evils of pride and the iniquity of lavishing one self with exalted distinctions, won't you welcome the Good Reverend, and Doctor of hermeneutics, PHD renowned Author and Apostle, Brother J. D. Osuum!
We are to cast down imaginations((logismos: arguments and reasonings) and every high thing (hypsoma: heightened pretension)
Pretention: feigning oneself to a high position.