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Spiritual Articles BE YOU BUT NOT YOU WHEN YOU ARE SERVING GOD BE YOU in the sense of being real in serving God, stop allowing emotions to control your calling, stop allowing people who have different ideologies to tell you what to do in serving God, stop allowing public opinions to control your calling and the ministry God Gives you and also don’t allow personal motives, etc. but be you in the sense of completely be you. Controlling emotions, public opinions, and other things, which may prohibit us from not allowing serving God, should not be allowed in any leadership. Leaders should know that emotions, public opinions can play a big role in any leadership. Controlling it can make a Leader express confidence in an individual by showing positive affect toward them. In serving God, we need to be careful with our emotions, public opinions, and also other bad ideologies, which can make us be uncomfortable when we are serving God. The negative impact of this can make a leader to be less satisfied with anything they are doing. And this can more likely cause a person to leave the organization; living in the context of others can make us be unsuccessful leaders. This doesn’t mean that we need to neglect the views or opinions of others; taking others' opinions and views as feedback is the most important thing in life. The ministry, which God has given us, is to serve people who are around us. But not to seek our personal glory.