The Doorstep Evangel Newspaper
The DoorStep Evangel is a bimonthly publication of the Empire Baptist Temple. It is freely distributed to Pastors and Missionaries as a ministry to encourage and edify men of God as they serve in this challenging age.
Archived here you will find a sampling of articles that have appeared in the DoorStep Evangel over the years.
Ego or Conceit?
Dr. Ronald L. Tottingham
Ego is likely manhood as I've found that in human nature men operate on ego. Ladies operate on emotions. Now is ego pride or conceit? No, it is not, though many will say it is.
Small people spend much time discussing the "pride" of great people's successes. Small people define the necessary "ego to achieve" as pride, and they call "accomplishments of the energy of ego," as of flesh.
Ego and conceit are different, one divine, the other self-ego or haughtiness perhaps. Without ego a man is no man. Call it spirit, call it "get up and go," call it "spunk," call it what we will. Male ego is God's created nature of maleness and without ego a man is not in God's eyes.