How to Kill Pride

To Help Cultivate Humility & Weaken Pride

Practices of Special Focus and Concentration

1.      Study the Attributes of God – the incommunicable attributes.

          Study attributes that have no human reflection or illustration

·        Study Wayne Gruden’s Systematic Theology

·        Study A. W. Pink’s Attributes of God

·        Study A. W. Tozer’s The Knowledge of God

·        Study Stephen Charnock’s Attributes of God

2.      Study the Doctrines of Grace – salvation from first to last is of God

·        Study the doctrine of election

·        Study the doctrine of calling

·        Study the doctrine of justification

·        Study the doctrine of perseverance

3.      Study the Doctrine of Sin – sin is our mean, abject condition

·        Study the delicacy of sin

·        Study the destructiveness of sin

·        Study the deceitfulness of sin

·        Study the desire of sin

4.      Study the Evidences of Grace -  in the lives of others

·       Actively look for ways that God is @ work in others

·       Accurately examine the Apostle Paul as an example

·       Attentively familiarize oneself with fruit of the Spirit

·       Affectionately look to God to lead you to the evidence