- What does it mean to be selfish?
adjective
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure.
- What is vain conceit?
vain
vān/
adjective
1.
having or showing an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth.
“their flattery made him vain”
synonyms: conceited, narcissistic, self-loving, in love with oneself, self-admiring, self-regarding, self-obsessed, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical; More
noun
Excessive pride in oneself.
Philippians 2:3-4 NIV
[3] Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, [4] not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
- What are some reasons people are selfish, what motivates someone to think of themselves first?
- What do you think this group would be like if everyone worked hard to meet everyone else’s needs? What would your classroom look like? Your home? Your school? The world??
- If everyone put others’ needs before their own- how would our own needs be met?
-Karyn