People we know, people we don’t know, we all want others to have a good opinion of us.
See, Fear of man is not limited merely to how we act or what we say, it is also related to what we choose not to say or do.
So, in the way we often respond to conflict, we demonstrate our tendency to fear man more than God.
Do you see any fear of man running through your experience?
Ed Welch, “When People are Big and God is Small”
During these podcast episodes, we will explore the various ways we most often tend to be controlled by fear of man, for only as we begin to categorize our struggles in this area, are we able to see the paths that biblical repentance must travel. And we will see, explicitly, that overcoming the fear of others is not something we can accomplish on our own. There is One who didn’t give into the fear of man and gave Himself up so that we could fear God rightly and thereby begin seeing enslavement to the fear of man eliminated.
So, in the upcoming episodes, we will talk about some of the fears that we have. For example:
1) We might fear that people will physically hurt us; this can relate to any number of things:
2) we might also fear that people will reject us; this is often connected to things about us in comparison to other people:
3) again, we might also fear that people will expose us; a fear of exposure may manifest itself in a variety of activities and attitudes:
*But, as we will see, the center of a heart that wrongly fears man is a heart that loves self more than God.
