![]() In a nutshell Chip Ingram’s “Good to Great in God’s Eyes” defined the attributes of greatness from God’s perspective. Furthermore, In John 17:4 Christ also asked God to glory him before his crucifixion “I have brought you glory on each by completing the work you gave him to do” Christ asked God to glorify him on earth and that his glory be shared with his disciples. Christ did not rebuke nor condemn his followers but rather turned it into a teachable moment by defining greatness with a familiar but counterintuitive conduit. The argument was which of the disciples should be considered the greatest. ![]() Well, the disciplines struggled with the same issues as we can clearly see in Luke 22 right after Christ instituted the Lord’s Super. The fact is Jesus does not ask us to rid ourselves of passion or dreams, but to turn the passions toward God. To be more precise many Christians both new and old usually wonder if it is ok to be ambitious, or to aspire greatness afterwards the scriptures clearly told us we are not of this world. It is not unusually for Christians especially new converts to ponder how their ambitions and dreams relate to the new found faith.
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