coming back to the heart of worship…. and it’s all about YOU all about YOU JESUS…. He must increase, He will increase, He is increasing, may we decrease…. see http://www.theschoolofchrist.org bless you the narrow way also soooo true, thru the cross, and deny self and take up the cross…..
It’s not just big-head pastors and worship leaders (I find musicians are at least as bad!) who are busy making it all about me.
Big-heads do it but so do the insecure. Opposite problem. Same bad result.
When I was a student minister I used to go to the church door, to shake hands after the service, just desperate for feedback. If I just got “good mornings” I felt bad. (Once I got, “I like your jumper” from someone, after preaching my heart out on John 3:16. Another time I got, “Yer no’ even a real minister, hen” from someone who’d only come to church to get her passport photo signed. But I digress…)
Anyway a lovely godly mature minister I told about my problem advised me to go to the door forgetting about myself but concentrating on the people and how they were feeling, and their needs. Such good advice and I often remember it now, many years later.
But as someone whose tendency is still more to insecurity than bigheadedness I’m still very very aware that the end-product is just the same, making it all about me.
I happened by an extremely popular TV evangelist last week promoting her latest CD preaching series and book who actually said something like:
I am even using this for my own Bble study right now because, why would I read some one else’s material when I wrote the book?
I laugh to keep from crying. When do they start believing their own press releases? Yikes!
David Hayward is an artist trapped in a pastor's body, stripping to the essential.
This IS the problem in contemporary churches. The word “ME” needs to be exchanged for the word ‘JESUS’.
It’s not just pastors (although many of them are at the heart of the problem), but parishoners as well.
The churches have been turned into great big therapy centers. Or, happy, clappy, entertainment complexes. Or social clubs that revolve around …’ME’.
The whole enterprise, in the end, is about ME.
What about Christ and what He has done, is doing, and will yet do?
Oh…Him. Boring.
– Steve
I believe it was John the Baptist who said, “He must increase, I must decrease.”
Or, was it the other way around?
Thanks!
– Steve
I know a man just like this….Scarey!
coming back to the heart of worship…. and it’s all about YOU all about YOU JESUS…. He must increase, He will increase, He is increasing, may we decrease…. see http://www.theschoolofchrist.org bless you the narrow way also soooo true, thru the cross, and deny self and take up the cross…..
It’s not just big-head pastors and worship leaders (I find musicians are at least as bad!) who are busy making it all about me.
Big-heads do it but so do the insecure. Opposite problem. Same bad result.
When I was a student minister I used to go to the church door, to shake hands after the service, just desperate for feedback. If I just got “good mornings” I felt bad. (Once I got, “I like your jumper” from someone, after preaching my heart out on John 3:16. Another time I got, “Yer no’ even a real minister, hen” from someone who’d only come to church to get her passport photo signed. But I digress…)
Anyway a lovely godly mature minister I told about my problem advised me to go to the door forgetting about myself but concentrating on the people and how they were feeling, and their needs. Such good advice and I often remember it now, many years later.
But as someone whose tendency is still more to insecurity than bigheadedness I’m still very very aware that the end-product is just the same, making it all about me.
Ax
Please, please!!!!! Use the same tempelate with the words. “You can only receive God’s grace through me”
I happened by an extremely popular TV evangelist last week promoting her latest CD preaching series and book who actually said something like:
I am even using this for my own Bble study right now because, why would I read some one else’s material when I wrote the book?
I laugh to keep from crying. When do they start believing their own press releases? Yikes!