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Anyone who undertakes any task should do so with confidence. However, there is a big difference between confidence and arrogance. Confidence is defined as: “full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed. 2) Belief in oneself and one’s powers or abilities; self-confidence; self-reliance; assurance. Arrogance however is: “unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people:unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people:unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people: unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people:the state of being unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than other people.” Pastors and Ministers all across the USA have forgotten the calling in which God has placed them, and many have set themselves up as demigods. This has resulted in a lack of accountability from many of these men and women of God. As I sat in the court room a few years earlier, I listened as a Federal Judge sentenced the Bishop that stood before him. As the Judge passed sentence his words to the Bishop were, “You are the most arrogant man that has ever been tried in my courtroom.” The Judge then proceeded to sentence the Bishop and his wife to the maximum penalties allowed by law. Men and women of God, the under-shepherds of God’s people, should never place themselves in this position. There used to be a day when the men and women of God were confident, yet humble. Those days seemed to have vanished in this era of entertainment Christianity. We have forgotten that humility is not a bad thing and that we can be confident and humble.
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