Costi Hinn Gives 20 Ways We Are Glory Hogs

1. Believing ministry success is due to something other than God's blessing

2. Over-relying on man-centered factors as essential to success

3. Lack of gratitude for others

4. "Key-man syndrome:" we can't survive without "him"

5. Prayerlessness

6. Manipulating people because we don't trust God

7. Viewing staff and leaders as "ours"

8. Falsely attributing things to God that we manipulated to happen

9. Ignoring the gifts of others given by the Spirit

10. Using others to build your platform

11. Partiality to the rich

12. False humility

13. Viewing your gifts above other gifts

14. Pompous language

15. Hiding the sins of leaders because you don't trust God's process

16. Making pastor's wives "First Lady"

17. Using church funds however you want without reporting

18. Keeping smarter men out of the elder/deacon room because they make us insecure

19. Unteachable spirit

20. Shunning those who innocently and/or genuinely question us out of love

 

*Costi Hinn serves as the Pastor of Preaching & Teaching at Shepherd's House Bible Church in Chandler, AZ. He is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the author of several books including, More Than a Healer (Zondervan, 2021), God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel (Zondervan, 2019), and Defining Deception (SCS Press, 2018).