Anthony Carter has voiced some questions on humility around some thoughts on the recent performance of rapper Curtis "Voice" Allen at Bethlehem Baptist Church (see "Rapper in the Pulpit"). The question is a good one, namely, can a person say they are being humble and still be humble? It reminds me of statements like "How to be humble like me" and "Humility: And how I achieved it." All joking aside, I think Voice is simply expressing his desire to respond to recent criticism in humility. I'll let God sort it out. But I will say that humility is a difficult subject to talk about in personal terms. We can talk about our struggle to be humble (that sounds humble), and we can talk about humility in non-personal terms (Christians should be humble), but to say anything in personal terms about one's own humility begins to sound...well, a bit un-humble. So, in my own humble opinion, we should read and talk with humility about others discussing their own humility.
My pastor is preaching through a series about humility and during the benediction one Sunday he inferred something to the effect of taking pride in your humility. That's a tough one to get your hands around. I understood what he was saying, or trying to say. But it's difficult to encourage people to embrace humility. As humans, when we embrace anything that personally characterizes us we walk a fine line between humility and pride. And so I think it might be best to say "be humble, but in your humility keep your eyes fixed on Jesus in dependence." Humility and independence don't go together. So all that to say, I think Voice can talk about his reaction to criticism as being humble as long as he does so pointing to Christ's enablement.
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