{"id":1846,"date":"2011-07-20T06:38:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2011-07-22T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T04:39:16","slug":"how-to-be-an-offering-banishing-pride-in-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/how-to-be-an-offering-banishing-pride-in-position\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be an Offering &#8211; Banishing Pride in Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who is on some type of &#8220;platform&#8221;; being a pastor, worship leader, or even having a lot of social media followers, can quickly and easily run into a problem:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Wow. \u00a0Look at this, I have some influence. \u00a0People listen to me. \u00a0This is pretty amazing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, the problem isn&#8217;t with people listening to that person, or even that they have influence. \u00a0<strong>The problem lies with how that influenced is used. \u00a0Will it be used for God&#8217;s glory or for personal gain?<\/strong> A new worship leader and blogging friend of mine says today that <a title=\"David Santistevan | Greatness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsantistevan.com\/2011\/07\/greatness\/\">it&#8217;s possible and quite clear from Scripture that it could be used for both<\/a> (think Moses, David, Solomon, the Apostle Paul), but there will always be a danger to take pride in the position we&#8217;ve been allowed to be placed into and forget about our call to magnify the greatness of God.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>When we take pride in our position we start to do things like:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Believe we&#8217;re the only ones with the right answers or solution<\/li>\n<li>Yearn for more influence, followers, and recognition of man<\/li>\n<li>Stop relying on God&#8217;s Word and character to drive our daily living<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>There are a few simple ways to combat getting caught up in our position that I&#8217;m learning to apply daily:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend time in God&#8217;s Word every day and remind yourself that He is infinitely more great than we can ever imagine<\/li>\n<li>Allow wisdom from God&#8217;s Word to influence every daily decision made<\/li>\n<li>Pray daily, &#8220;God, thank you for putting me in this position. \u00a0I don&#8217;t deserve it and it&#8217;s only because of You that I&#8217;m here.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Listen to other people&#8217;s ideas and suggestions <strong>and <\/strong>implement them.<\/li>\n<li>Give <a title=\"What Will You Sacrifice? Honoring Others\u2019 Preferences and Time\" href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/what-will-you-sacrifice-honoring-others-preferences-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">preference to people above yourself<\/a> in conversation (listen first, then speak) and organization (live to <a title=\"Raising Up New Worship Leaders Helps Deal with Burnout (1 of 5)\" href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/raising-up-new-worship-leaders-helps-deal-with-burnout-1-of-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">equip leaders<\/a> as you lead, not dictate).<\/li>\n<li>Learn the words &#8220;You&#8217;re right&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; and say don&#8217;t be afraid to say them when you mess things up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lead and lead well. \u00a0But don&#8217;t let your position become an idol and a cause of offense to those who are under your influence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question: How do you balance increasing leadership and influence with the ability to stay humble and continue to magnify the greatness of God?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/how-to-be-an-offering-banishing-pride-in-position\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who is on some type of &#8220;platform&#8221;; being a pastor, worship leader, or even having a lot of social media followers, can quickly and easily run into a problem: &#8220;Wow. \u00a0Look at this, I have some influence. \u00a0People listen to me. \u00a0This is pretty amazing.&#8221; Now, the problem isn&#8217;t with people listening to that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}