Pride (3 of 5)
Series: Potholes
Craig Smith
Proverbs 16:18
I. Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills and to week number three of our series, Potholes, where we're on a search for wisdom from the book of Proverbs so we can identify and avoid some of most destructive holes we encounter on the road of life. Today, we're going to tackle the pothole of pride.
Now let me just say that this is a little bit of a tricky because we use the word ''pride'' in several different ways.
- First, we sometimes talk about school pride or national pride or Bronco pride...and what we mean by that is something like a sense of belonging, of community. We're not going to talk about that kind of pride today.
- Second, we sometimes talk about being proud of someone like our kids. My oldest daughter, Rochelle, graduated from college this spring and she just signed a contract for her first real, full-time, adult job. And I said ''I'm proud of you.'' We might even say the same kind of thing about ourselves. Maybe you handle a really difficult situation with wisdom and integrity and you ''I'm proud of myself for how I handled that.'' When we use the word ''proud'' in that way, what we really mean is ''I'm pleased'' or ''I'm content'' or ''I'm happy'' with the way that played out. We're not going to talk about that kind of pride today.
- We're going to focus today on a third kind of pride...the kind that we're talking about when we say that ''he is prideful'' or ''she is full of pride.'' A lot of times we use the word ''arrogant'' as a synonym for this kind of pride. That's the kind of pride we're going to talk about today. Here's what we mean by that: pride is an over-valuing of self and an under-valuing of others. Pride says ''I'm all I need''. It doesn't necessarily say ''I'm the best at everything'' but it tends to say ''what I'm not the best at doesn't really matter all that much. I think we have this tendency to think that prideful people think that they're the best ...
Series: Potholes
Craig Smith
Proverbs 16:18
I. Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills and to week number three of our series, Potholes, where we're on a search for wisdom from the book of Proverbs so we can identify and avoid some of most destructive holes we encounter on the road of life. Today, we're going to tackle the pothole of pride.
Now let me just say that this is a little bit of a tricky because we use the word ''pride'' in several different ways.
- First, we sometimes talk about school pride or national pride or Bronco pride...and what we mean by that is something like a sense of belonging, of community. We're not going to talk about that kind of pride today.
- Second, we sometimes talk about being proud of someone like our kids. My oldest daughter, Rochelle, graduated from college this spring and she just signed a contract for her first real, full-time, adult job. And I said ''I'm proud of you.'' We might even say the same kind of thing about ourselves. Maybe you handle a really difficult situation with wisdom and integrity and you ''I'm proud of myself for how I handled that.'' When we use the word ''proud'' in that way, what we really mean is ''I'm pleased'' or ''I'm content'' or ''I'm happy'' with the way that played out. We're not going to talk about that kind of pride today.
- We're going to focus today on a third kind of pride...the kind that we're talking about when we say that ''he is prideful'' or ''she is full of pride.'' A lot of times we use the word ''arrogant'' as a synonym for this kind of pride. That's the kind of pride we're going to talk about today. Here's what we mean by that: pride is an over-valuing of self and an under-valuing of others. Pride says ''I'm all I need''. It doesn't necessarily say ''I'm the best at everything'' but it tends to say ''what I'm not the best at doesn't really matter all that much. I think we have this tendency to think that prideful people think that they're the best ...
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