@princeprex 30 August 2020

Serve Like Jesus

Point 1. Look at me, Mom! says the three yeal old standing on the coffee table wearing a princess dress and holding a spatula to her mouth. She loves performing, but without a appropriately attentive audience, it's just not as fulfilling. Look at me, We don't really outgrow our desire to be noticed and appreciated, though we try to be more sophisticated about it. We glamorize anyone with talent or accomplishment (or notoriety). In the church, we idolized our singers, authors, and pastors, enthrusting them with the authority in our lives. If such author said it, it must be true. The pastor teaches so dynamically he must be super-spiritual. So idolazation lead us two ways: we feel enadequate compare to others since our gifting hasn't resulted in semilar celebrity status. Or we move from administration to envy, wanting the gifts they have in order to receive the attention to receive. Those self-centered tendencies are not new. In our passage today, we see that the Corinthian Christians also suffered from a "look at me" syndrome. It appears they wanted to more visible more authoritative gifts. Those with less attention getting gifts were being ignored, considered less than. The Corinthians had fallen prey to the age old temptation of considering bigger to the better, public to be preferable. To be Continue...