Living in a World of Critics: Keeping Your Cool in a Comparison Culture | Pastor Mike Fabarez

Name: Living in a World of Critics: Keeping Your Cool in a Comparison Culture | Pastor Mike Fabarez
Uploaded: 2026-03-29T20:24:49.000Z
Duration: 49 min 26 s
Description: Christians should expect the world to judge them by superficial appearances and to misunderstand their good deeds, but must refuse to play the comparison game and instead measure their spiritual growth only against the standard of Christ's fullness.

Christians should expect the world to judge them by superficial appearances and to misunderstand their good deeds, but must refuse to play the comparison game and instead measure their spiritual growth only against the standard of Christ's fullness.

Stories told

Samuel anointing David (1 Samuel 16)Jesus' family thinking he was out of his mind (Mark 3:20-21)Belshazzar and the writing on the wall the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18:11-12)Amos's plumb line vision

Scripture referenced

2 Corinthians 5 2 Corinthians 10:7–12 2 Corinthians 10 Galatians 1 Galatians 1:16 1 Peter 3 Galatians 6:3 Revelation 10 1 Samuel 16:6 1 Samuel 16:7 Galatians 1:12 1 Peter 3:12

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