Popularity by Andrew Ong
Keeping Score
a) Comparing To
b) Competing With
c) Climbing Above
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name
Philippians 2:5-9(NIV)
People Pleasing
Symptoms...
- Do you find yourself always doing "favours" for others?
- Do people seem to take you for granted.
- Have you never learned to say no to anyone?
- Getting Angry toward those who take you for granted.
- Avoid people fearing they will reject you.
- Reject other people before they can reject you.
- Control or dominate other people so they cannot reject you.
- Become Depressed because "no one likes you."
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10 (NIV)
One day when large groups of people were walking along with him, Jesus turned and told them, "Anyone who comes to me but refuses to let go of father, mother, spouse, children, brothers, sisters—yes, even one's own self!—can't be my disciple. Anyone who won't shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can't be my disciple.
Luke 14:25-27 (The Message)
Woe to you when all men speak well of you,
for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.
for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.
Luke 6:26 (NIV)
23Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. 24But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. 25He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.
John 2:23-25 (NIV)
Playing By The Rules
It is better to be poor and honest
than to be foolish and tell lies.
than to be foolish and tell lies.
Proverbs 19:1 (NCV)
Give Relationship Top Priority
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (NIV)
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