6. Leaders who love titles, positions and recognition and who constantly join boards and get involved in large events for public prominence are heading for a fall unless they repent. When we exalt ourselves, God says He will humble us (Luke 14:11), and he who seeks his own glory is not glory (Prov. 25:27).

We are not far from a fall when we try to lift ourselves up, promote ourselves or get involved in events without hearing from the Lord; we are like the Pharisees who loved titles, prominent positions, greetings in the marketplace and to be called leader or reverend or bishop or doctor (Matt. 23:6-7). Leaders who are broken have learned not to try to create names for themselves by marketing their accomplishments and hype; they have learned that only when God exalts a person does it really last (Ps. 75:6).

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