MLPC: A Basin Community Church

Intro

Jonathan Edwards, in "Thoughts on Revival"

1. Spiritual pride makes you more aware of others faults than your own. Spiritual humility makes you far more aware of your own faults than those of others.

2. Pride leads you, when you speak of others faults, to speak in contempt of that other person. Humility means that when you do speak of other people’s faults you do so with grief and mercy.

3. Pride leads you to quickly separate from people you criticize or people who criticize you. You are either cold to them or you avoid them. Spiritual humility means that you stick with people in difficult relationships. You don’t give up on them.

4. A proud person is dogmatic and sure about every point of belief. Proud people cannot distinguish between major and minor points of belief because everything the proud person believes is “major.” Humble people do not quarrel over disputable matters.

5. A proud person either loves to confront because they love winning or they refuse to confront because they are afraid of losing. A humble person confronts only when it is necessary.

6. A proud person is often unhappy and sorry for themselves. This is because:
a). They are so sure they know how life ought to go.
b). They are sure they deserve a good life.
A humble person says “I deserve to be rejected by God, but only by God’s grace am I living…I don’t know what is best for me.”