Anytime you think less of someone because they\u2019re not a member of your race, denomination, gender, or social group, you\u2019re displaying an elitist attitude. Elitism is rooted in pride, and \u2018God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble<\/i>.\u2019 (James\u00a04:6\u00a0NIV) Here are two Bible examples of the elitist they are not one of us<\/i> attitude: <\/p>\n
(1) When God poured out His Spirit upon the seventy elders who led Israel, they all prophesied. Two of them were not present when it happened. Later, Joshua saw them prophesying and reported it to Moses. \u2018\u201cMy lord, forbid them!\u201d Then Moses said to him, \u201cAre you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord\u2019s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!\u201d<\/i>\u2019 (Numbers\u00a011:28\u201329\u00a0NKJV) Joshua believed that only a select group were qualified. <\/p>\n
(2) \u2018John said to Jesus, \u201cTeacher, we saw someone using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he wasn\u2019t in our group.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t stop him!\u201d Jesus said. \u201cNo one who performs a miracle in My name will soon be able to speak evil of Me. Anyone who is not against us is for us.\u201d<\/i>\u2019 (Mark\u00a09:38\u201340\u00a0NLT) <\/p>\n
If you exclude others or feel superior to them in any aspect of life, read these words from Paul: \u2018But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out His special favour on me\u2014and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by His grace.<\/i>\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anytime you think less of someone because they\u2019re not a member of your race, denomination, gender, or social group, you\u2019re displaying an elitist attitude. Elitism is rooted in pride, and \u2018God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble.\u2019 (James\u00a04:6\u00a0NIV) Here are two Bible examples of the elitist they are not one of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}