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Recognition - 2 - (27-01-2012)


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Let’s say that small group leader/youth leader was to acknowledge one of the members for a specific task he/she asked them to do – the same task they asked you to perform the week before … and they publicly “praised” that person more for it than what they did you the week before … what immediately pops up in your heart?

If you’re a pastor and you’ve been in a specific area for some time, your church is growing and you’re making a difference in the community, etc. - but there’s another church in the area; it’s excelling as well, also involved in the community. It’s been there though for a shorter time than you have. But that church received recognition from the local newspaper and radio station and yours didn’t … what’s your first thoughts on the matter?

Let’s say you’re in the choir and you’ve been the lead vocalist for the past 10 years – but now someone else comes along, just recently joined the church, sings just as good as you, and all of a sudden people stand up to applaud this new singer, pastors complimenting him/her from the pulpit, etc. … and you never once got such recognition … what goes through your heart then?