Okay, this is the thing: I recently expressed a long time mindset, and once expressed, God began to correct my thinking.
Here's the old mindset: Bro. Adams always preached that it doesn't matter who makes the basket, we are all one team and we all get the points (in the church) I have always disagreed. I said (in my mind) that Michael Jordan was famous because of his own extraordinary performances. Shoes were named after him, not after the Bulls. He stood out, heads above his other teammates. I said it mattered who made the goal and who performed with excellence. Bench sitters and those in the backup department didn't get famous.
Here's the Correction:
The Lord dealt with my mind this morning "But Michael Jordan sought to build his OWN name, not the name of the team. In church, we seek to build the name of the Lord and the Kingdom of Heaven. The world builds it's own name, we are not to seek our own name to be famous in the Kingdom of God.
So any man who builds his own name, as Michael did, have their fans who follow them and not Christ. But if we seek to build Christ, then we will spread the credit around to his coach, and the teammates, so that the people become fans of Christ & what He is doing in the church and not fans of one individual.
Here's the old mindset: Bro. Adams always preached that it doesn't matter who makes the basket, we are all one team and we all get the points (in the church) I have always disagreed. I said (in my mind) that Michael Jordan was famous because of his own extraordinary performances. Shoes were named after him, not after the Bulls. He stood out, heads above his other teammates. I said it mattered who made the goal and who performed with excellence. Bench sitters and those in the backup department didn't get famous.
Here's the Correction:
The Lord dealt with my mind this morning "But Michael Jordan sought to build his OWN name, not the name of the team. In church, we seek to build the name of the Lord and the Kingdom of Heaven. The world builds it's own name, we are not to seek our own name to be famous in the Kingdom of God.
So any man who builds his own name, as Michael did, have their fans who follow them and not Christ. But if we seek to build Christ, then we will spread the credit around to his coach, and the teammates, so that the people become fans of Christ & what He is doing in the church and not fans of one individual.
Debbie Hoffman Benfield
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