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Providing Support and Encouragement In Your Christian Life . . .
An Exhortation: "Admit You May Be Wrong!"


By Rev. Bill McGinnis, Pastor - InternetChurchOfChrist.org
Director - LoveAllPeople.org


ADMIT YOU MAY BE WRONG.

This idea is surprisingly powerful and useful!

Here's what to say, whenever there is a disagreement as to a matter of fact: "Now, I may be wrong about this. I frequently am wrong about things. But this is the way it appears to me:" (And then state your beliefs.)

By admitting you may be wrong, and by admitting that you frequently are wrong (You are, you know. We all are.), you almost force the other person to admit that he, too, may be wrong! Then, with your egos out of the way, you can both search objectively for the truth!

And if you really are wrong this time, it will be much less embarrassing for you than if you had been stubbornly insisting that you were totally right!

Also, if you freely admit that you might be wrong, you will be avoiding the pride and arrogance which usually accompany those who insist on always being right . . .


THE LORD OPPOSES THE PROUD AND THE ARROGANT



               Selected Scriptures Against Pride And Arrogance

1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for 
the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and
the froward mouth, do I hate.

Isaiah 13:11
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I
will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness
of the terrible.

Jeremiah 48:29
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his
arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride, foolishness:

1 Timothy 3:6
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Source of Scriptures: The King James Bible (KJV)
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Blessings to you in Jesus Christ our Lord.

     Rev. Bill McGinnis, Director - LoveAllPeople.org

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