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If it helps anyone today, Jesus said, Take up your cross & follow me, not Take up your Twitter & get people to follow you. So you lost followers. This is social media. Not the meaning of life. “Are [we] now seeking the approval of man or of God? Or [are we] trying to please man?”
Fellow leaders, there’s this little game some folks will play. They’ll inflate what you once meant to them so that, when they tell you how disappointed they are in you now, you’ll have further to drop.
“I ADORED you and now I have lost ALL respect for you.”
For starters,...
“I ADORED you and now I have lost ALL respect for you.”
For starters,...
Nobody has any busy adoring any of us. Adoration is for God. He alone can handle it. Anybody who adores us can in one single instant abhor us.
We are all going to mess up. Misspeak. Say too much. And disappoint people. And we’re all going to have to get over it. Start today.
We are all going to mess up. Misspeak. Say too much. And disappoint people. And we’re all going to have to get over it. Start today.
Follow Jesus closely. KNOW HIM. Keep your face in the Scriptures. Learn what Jesus is like & what compelled and repelled him. Then, by the power of the Holy Spirit, let THAT mind be in you. Let Him shape HIS convictions in you. Then stick by those convictions with all your might.
Anyway, I’ll tell you when to start getting worried: When you start gaining followers. Anybody who thinks being “known” is fun hasn’t been known long enough.
PS. That insight on how some people will inflate what you once meant to them came from my daughter @AmandaMoJo on a phone conversation yesterday. It was the truth if I’d ever heard it.
