Saturday, February 03, 2007
Feb 5 - Humility - Todd M.
The question:
Share about one person in your life that you feel has modeled humility for you? What did they do? How did they handle themselves? Share if you can a particular time you saw their humility in action.
Content:
Define humility? Confident(in Christ) yet selfless servant.
Here are the passages we looked at:
a. Phillippians 2: 1- 8
b. John 13: 1-17
c. I Thessalonians 4:11-12, 5: 12-18
d. I Samuel 24: 1-12, 16-20.
Then the class looked at ways these passages define humility.
A thought for discussion:
Humility is a great value, but I might suggest that it is a valued more as a belief than it is as an action to be lived out daily. Why might that be?
Some thoughts from class: We don't have a great number of models of humility. it takes effort and its easier to be lazy. It’s easier, more natural to be proud. Humility takes the wind out of stances like we can or could know-it-all. Humility embraces our finite abilities, knowledge, talent, skills. Humility embraces the very thing our body naturally strives to fight off, that is our death. As a Christian our true identity is supposed to be dead.(Dead to our ambitions, Dead to our ideas, Dead to ourselves, dead to our judgments of others).
Application:
- As Christians, how do we show humility to each other? In the church, those we disagree, our kids, our spouses, friends, those we do not see eye to eye with?
- As Christians, how do we show humility to the world? Neighbors, bosses, co-workers, those we might strongly disagree?
Stay warm! And thanks for being there today!
-LiFE
Share about one person in your life that you feel has modeled humility for you? What did they do? How did they handle themselves? Share if you can a particular time you saw their humility in action.
Content:
Define humility? Confident(in Christ) yet selfless servant.
Here are the passages we looked at:
a. Phillippians 2: 1- 8
b. John 13: 1-17
c. I Thessalonians 4:11-12, 5: 12-18
d. I Samuel 24: 1-12, 16-20.
Then the class looked at ways these passages define humility.
A thought for discussion:
Humility is a great value, but I might suggest that it is a valued more as a belief than it is as an action to be lived out daily. Why might that be?
Some thoughts from class: We don't have a great number of models of humility. it takes effort and its easier to be lazy. It’s easier, more natural to be proud. Humility takes the wind out of stances like we can or could know-it-all. Humility embraces our finite abilities, knowledge, talent, skills. Humility embraces the very thing our body naturally strives to fight off, that is our death. As a Christian our true identity is supposed to be dead.(Dead to our ambitions, Dead to our ideas, Dead to ourselves, dead to our judgments of others).
Application:
- As Christians, how do we show humility to each other? In the church, those we disagree, our kids, our spouses, friends, those we do not see eye to eye with?
- As Christians, how do we show humility to the world? Neighbors, bosses, co-workers, those we might strongly disagree?
Stay warm! And thanks for being there today!
-LiFE
