Overcoming Pride

Overcoming Pride The first church I ever served in a small town in easte Kentucky. There was also a traffic light at the moment. The church was full of wonderful farmers, the irony, because the only time I had ever been on a farm so far has been the training camp. Suddenly I was visiting a family in church and saw his son throw "feed" on the ground for the chickens. Very quickly it was a swarm of taking food and other chickens chicken on the head with its beak. What I leaed is that you can create a group of chickens, chicken, throw some 'food and very soon a "hierarchy" are. If there are five hens in the pen, it is a chicken, which dominate the other four Peck, Peck is another that the other three, until you see the chickens, the last, not a cut and is pecked by all. The signs of pride If someone who does not enjoy chicken is the fifth was Naaman. 2 Kings 5:1 tells us: "Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. It was a great man in the eyes of his master and highly regarded ... "Second only to the king of the country, Naaman was a man who was used to get his way. If someone said to do something, but do better or else. The only problem is that Naaman had leprosy. But through a series of events Naaman leaed that the prophet Elisha had the power to heal him. So Naaman went to Elisha and asked him, a miracle. Elisha responded by pushing in verse 5:10: "Go, wash yourself seven times in Jordan, and your flesh will be restored. "Feeling like a number of five chickens, Naaman stormed off. But he humbled himself and wash in Jordan and was healed. People can know God, Jesus made it clear that life in the kingdom is willing to be the fifth of chicken. A few years ago, a ministry friend and I went to a conference in the south. There has been talk of a mega-church, which is only a few thousand in a few years. We were both waiting to lea a few secrets to help our churches grow. We were both back from what we saw. The pastor was the face of the whole world. His face is on all the books and cassettes and CDs and biblical studies and flyers, and the walls and PowerPoint, and almost everywhere it could be pushed. In the cafeteria, also had a cookie with it. The staff of our church, which now jokes, "If we want to do great, we use all our cookies. "No, if God has something to do.