Most people, including Christians, struggle with pride more than anything else. Pride is arrogance. It’s an inflated opinion of one’s importance. Do you struggle with pride?

Recognizing the Five Faces of Pride

Pretending - People who don’t practice what they teach.

Power - People who use power strategically to manipulate people to obey them.

Perception - People who are very concerned about what others think about themselves and what they think about themself.

Perks - When a perk controls a leader or dominates the leader it becomes pride. The leader is more concerned about the perk than the people.

Position & Titles - When a person thinks that titles are more important and are really concerned about their title and what’s on the building. As a leader, you must understand that the people, the position, and the power that you have are stewardship opportunities that God has entrusted you with. The people who are under you aren’t yours, they belong to God.

7 Keys to Overcoming Pride

Pray - Make a commitment to prayer. Ask God to search your heart and reveal to you where you’ve allowed pride to enter your life. Or IF you’ve allowed pride to enter your life. When He reveals it in your life, don’t make excuses. Acknowledge it. “Help me to change. Give me the grace to change my motives.”
Consider Jesus - Hebrews 12:2-3; Go through the New Testament, and look at his life and how he dealt with certain things (e.g. He asked to be baptized by John the Baptist, He chose not to defend himself even though people were lying on him (trials).
Embracing, Submitting, and honoring the gifts of others in the Body of Christ — 1 Corinthians 12:12,21; Romans 12:3,6
Being Openminded — Understanding that are multiple ways and viewpoints on different situations and areas. When things must always be your way, especially when you’re on a team, then your pride will create resentment in others.
Focus on listening and not talking — James 1:19 Amplified Bible; Not being a good listener is usually systematic of being of pride. Great leaders listen!
Follow love — 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NIV; You can’t follow love and operate in pride at the same time.
Resist the temptation of pride — (e.g. resist the need to boast or name drop, the temptation to hold a grudge, the temptation to judge people’s spirituality, the temptation to look down on people, the temptation to think you can’t learn from others, resist criticizing and majoring on people’s flaws, resist the need to ‘save face’ (if you miss it, acknowledge that you missed it), resist focusing on compliments and comparing yourself and others, resist the need to feel self-pity when you’re not praised, resist the need to take credit for others contributions.