Narcissism and the Kingdom of God
I keep hearing endless commentary today about how many people are "narcissists" and have had this discussion a number of times with my wife about the widespread use of the term that wasn't being used so widely before about 10 years ago. I've noticed the church has jumped on board and is using the term critically to describe more and more Christian leaders. The term is now so common that you'd think there was a Bible verse that said, "narcissists will not inherit the Kingdom of God". But there isn't! What do we find in the pages of the the Bible? Biblically, the concept that we find condemned all over God's Word is SELF . Even when I looked up definitions for narcissism, I found SELF -ishness and SELF -centeredness as the core definitions. Additionally, I found SELF -love, SELF -Admiration, SELF -adulation, and SELF -absorption. I would add one more of my own - SELF -promotion. Whatever narcissism is, and I recognize that there is a workin