My own messiah complex

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Written By Jason Valendy

I was thinking the other day about the many times I take myself too seriously- especially with work in the church.

I often bemoan problems as I see them in the United Methodist Church and you want to know something?

What a wonderful happenstance, all the problems I see with the UMC, I feel I am the solution!

What an ass I am.

I continue to come be baffled at myself. My mind convinces me that my self-prescribed strengths are exactly what the church lacks. I convince myself that if only I were in charge I could 'save' churches.

Is this egoism/messiah complex my own issue? Is it something which plagues ministers of all sorts? Leaders? Just men or all people?

So, I write this as a reminder to myself:

We already have a messiah, and you are not it. Get over yourself.

Jason Valendy

Husband, father of two boys, pastor in the United Methodist Church, and guy who is interested in the desert mothers and fathers. The idea of Orthocardia is the pursuit of having a “right heart” over the pursuit of having a “right belief” (orthodoxy) or a “right action” (orthopraxy).

www.jasonvalendy.net
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