Some people use charm to recruit you into their fights, spreading grievances and bitterness disguised as truth. Don't inherit their battles or become a soldier in someone else's war. Stay alert to manipulation, especially from those praised as good.
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your problem. They are listening because at the end of the day they need to sell a narrative that the leader is bad. They are listening to recruit somebody to their side. They are listening to make you feel they are better than the system. Sometimes not all listeners are good helps. Some will complicate your life more than it was. Beware of people who are nice generally in the systems that they are serving, but when they talk to you, they leave you with pain and bitterness. They are praised as the best, but when they talk, you know they are bad. They have issues in their mind. They have issue with the pastor, they have issue with the members, they have issue with this. And they say, you know what, I wish they know how to do this better. The things we have done No, no, that's bitterness! It's unresolved! That was what he was doing. It will amaze you to know how gullible people can be. Don't overrate yourself. Somebody can give you their own battle, and before you know it, you're a soldier in a battle that is not your business. You have been recruited. You hate somebody now because somebody hates the person. You don't want to see that person— not because the fellow has done anything to you. If you were asked to list number of people you now hate because of what you heard, it will shock you to know how easily recruited you are. You might not have a job or you an employee.