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NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION TRAINING
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7
LAWS of
DYING
TO SELF
When you are forgotten, neglected or purposely set at naught,
and you don’t sting and hurt with the insult
or the oversight but your heart is happy, being
counted worthy to suffer for Christ,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When your good is evil spoken of,
when your wishes are crossed,
you advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and
you refuse to let anger rise in your heart or even defend
yourself, but take it all in patient loving silence,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you lovingly and patiently bear
any disorder, any irregularity,
any impunctuality, or any annoyance; when you can
stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual
insensibility-and endure it as Jesus endured it,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you are content with any food, any offering,
any raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude,
and any interruption by the will of God,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation,
or to record your own good works, or itch after
commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can see you brother prosper and have his needs met,
and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel
no envy nor question God, while your own needs
are far greater and in desperate circumstances,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can receive correction and reproof
from one of less stature than yourself, and can
humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly,
finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.