The Men's breakfast, Friday mornings at 7am at the old Hillcrest Hospital cafeteria, roundtables sermon scriptures as a matter of course. This morning, Trevor Brown, our youth minister, led us in a discussion of Matthew 11:28-30. He will preach from this text on Sunday.
Amongst other topics, we talked about what it meant to be humble. It is not synonymous with being a doormat nor is it akin to a self-serving martyrdom complex. It means being really grounded in one's identity and that foundation provides one with the self confidence to serve others and work towards the interests of others. Using Matthew 11, I argue that true humility can come upon us only when Christ frees us from the bonds of egotism.
Along these lines, though with that critical transcendent element, David Brooks submits the following [thanks to Ralph Cooper for dispersing this piece].
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