The Dangers of the "Lone Ranger" Mindset
Me and Jesus got our own thing going is a sure fire way to end up making God in your own image instead of the other way around!
Christ is risen!
One of the best business writers out there now is Simon Synek. His book “Start With Why” revolutionized my thinking about how to motivate people and how to have the stamina to stay consistent and focused on achieving goals. One of my favorite quotes from Synek is, “There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.”
Of course, younger people don’t remember the days when we needed paper maps to get directions in unfamiliar places. And I can tell you, I am a typical man who hates asking for directions. You can’t know the joy I feel now in having GPS where I don’t have to ask for directions or read a map!
But the truth is we all need help getting the direction for our lives. Going it alone only means you never avail yourself of wisdom learned the hard way. And we weren’t meant to get the ultimate direction for our lives by ourselves. We are saved in Community and in the midst of a place where we have spiritual Fathers and Mothers to help us avoid the pitfalls of our own blind egos. We could ignore this humble reality and try to “do it yourself,” but that’s how we got 40,000 different Christian denominations and all the confusion about the Faith we struggle with today!
How do we avoid this dead-end “Lone Ranger” mindset?
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