#4 - “Learning From Others” to “Comparing To Others.”
You know you are doing this when…
- You feel like the only people you can learn from are the ones who think and act just like you.
- You are the first one to point out all that you think is “wrong” with another church the moment you hear someone speaking well of it.
- You can’t enjoy the blessings and favor of God on your life because your too busy looking at how He has chosen to bless someone else…and are envious over it.
- You visit another church and the only things you look for are the things you think your church does better rather than the things they are doing that, if implemented at your church, would dramatically improve things.
- Your goal isn’t to please Jesus…you just want to be better than “the church down the street.”
- You spend a lot of your time saying, “If we had BLANK then we would be growing just like they are.” (Fill in the BLANK with staff, money, volunteers, etc.)
- You look down on pastors whose churches aren’t as large as yours as “inferior” and never try to learn anything from them. (I think pastors of smaller churches are MANY TIMES the most innovative people on the planet!)
- Instead of probing to see why a particular new ministry is successful you simply condemn it as often as possible because affirmation of its success might mean change is necessary.