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Dealing with Criticism Without Becoming Critical

Dec 7

Written by: jimwideman
12/7/2009 8:29 AM

Opinions are like elbows, everyone has a couple of them! It didn’t take me long when I began working in ministry to realize people in church like to tell those who are working in leadership how to do the work of the ministry. Many times they don’t want to help they just want to offer advice. We also see this in Jesus’ ministry.

Matthew 26:6-10 “While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor." Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.” Luke 5:30-35 “But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and `sinners'?" Jesus answered them,"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking." Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast." Luke 7:31-35 "To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: "`We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry’, For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, `He has a demon.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, `Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners." “But wisdom is proved right by all her children."
The bottom line is this, "Not everyone is going to like you, even Christians!"
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Re: Dealing with Criticism Without Becoming Critical

Thank you Jim! This is exactly what I needed to be reminded of over these last few months! It is challenging, but I must remember I'm working for the approval of an audience of ONE.

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