@Jordan Eaton here’s a real life example. A husband and father said that God told him to watch the news and pray for the government every day. So he did, for hours. He called it faithfulness to what God told him. Meanwhile, his wife and children were missing him. Growing more and more frustrated as the missing turned toward a sense of being neglected. When his wife asked him to engage more at home and with the kids, he used faithfulness to continue. It kept getting more and more intense. The wife and kids didn’t see it as faithfulness but stubbornness. He wouldn’t meet with counsel. He had no men he talked to about what his wife was saying. He went to church and put his faithfulness on display, but his kids grew more and more distant and angry at God. I don’t know where it is now but it was not in a good place several years ago. The entire time he felt more and more justified at how faithfully he was serving God while his family wanted some of that faithfulness towards them.

@Barbara Souza the fruit for sure. While there will always be people offended by someone walking faithfully, who is it that’s offended and why are they offended? I met a husband who was learning about praying for the sick and wanted to pray for people all the time (which is amazing). His wife wasn’t quite there yet and was struggling that they couldn’t go anywhere without him requiring her to join him to pray for people. When I met him, he told me he was thinking of divorcing his wife because she wasn’t at his level spiritually. He wanted to leave her instead of lead her. And how he was “being faithful” was bearing some pretty bad fruit. At church he made sure people knew and saw what he was doing. But his wife saw something else entirely. He forgot he is also called to lay down his life for his wife as Christ laid down his life for His Bride. In his faithfulness to follow Jesus in one area he was disobeying in another.

@Jessika Aguil welcome!!!!

@Barbara Souza glad to have you here!