Pride Test:
1. Do you long for attention? No? Well, are you pushy or emotional?Do you interrupt or offer opinions no one is asking for?
2. Are you jealous of people who succeed? Do you criticize people who succeed or try to find reasons to justify why they're more successful than you?
3. Do you always have to win? Even if it means cheating?
4. Do you have a pattern of lying? Are you often trying to shape perceptions of you by shading the truth?
5. Do you have a hard time acknowledging when you're wrong?
6. Do you have lots of conflict with other people?
7. Do you ever cut inline - in traffic, at stores, at the airport?
8. Do you get upset when people don't honor your achievements?
9. Do you tend more to an attitude of entitlement or thankfulness?
10. Do you honestly feel that you're basically a good person and better than most others?
Humility Test:
1. Do you ask for help when you need it?
2. Do you give credit where it's due?
3. Are you quick to forgive and difficult to offend?
4. Are you patient with the weaknesses of others?
5. Are you a peacekeeper? Do you take extra effort to make peace -simply keeping your mouth closed when necessary?
6. Do you serve others - regularly?
7. Are you thankful?
8. Do you have a tender conscience and are you quick to repent?
9. Do you admit your own weaknesses?
10. Do you gladly receive the Lord's correction?
"...all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
- 1 Peter 5:5
"...be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interest, but to the interests of others."
- Philippians 2.2-4
(taken from Bill Barley - Living Stones Church - Kona, Hi)
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