Wednesday, July 30, 2008

How to be Humble

CJ Mahaney, former pastor of Covenant Life Church in the USA has this list of ways to cultivate humility. This list is taken from ChristianCounseling.wordpress.com

Each day you should be addressing your greatest enemy and cultivating your greatest friend. So here’s how I attempt to mortify pride and cultivate humility.

  1. Study the attributes of God, especially His incommunicable attributes
  2. Reflect on the wonder of the Cross of Christ
  3. Study the Doctrines of Grace
  4. Study the Doctrine of Sin
  5. Cultivate spiritual disciplines
  6. Invite and pursue correction
  7. Encourage and serve others each and every day
  8. Identify evidences of grace in others
  9. Respond humbly to trials
  10. Discern your thorns
  11. Use unflattering illustrations of yourself publicly
  12. Recognize your theological limitations
  13. Prepare to be replaced
  14. Recognize your relative unimportance
  15. Laugh with others when you are the object of humor
  16. Play golf as much as possible…
  17. Read as many of C.H. Spurgeon’s sermons as possible
Also, start reading books such as the freely available book by Andrew Murray called "Humility"
here.

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