Teachability Part 2 The Pride That Makes Us Unteachable

Pride does not always announce itself through arrogance, boasting, or an obvious sense of superiority. Sometimes it hides behind experience, knowledge, gifting, seniority, spiritual language, success, personal convictions, and the constant need to defend ourselves. In Part 2 of the Teachability series, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell exposes how pride can quietly make believers and leaders resistant to the very correction God intends to use for their growth. The issue is not simply whether we allow people to speak to us, but whether our hearts remain humble enough to seriously examine what has been said when truth challenges our behavior, methods, motives, or conclusions.Throughout this episode, Apostle Bardwell examines the many ways pride manifests itself in our response to instruction, including defensiveness, excessive explanation, blame shifting, comparison, insecurity, spiritual independence, resistance to questions, selective correction, and the need to always be right. Drawing from Proverbs 12:15, James 4:6, Proverbs 27:6, David’s confrontation by Nathan, and other biblical examples, this teaching demonstrates that correction can be an expression of God’s mercy rather than an attack upon our identity. Genuine humility does not require believers to deny their gifting, authority, experience, or calling; it requires them to refuse to use those things as shields against accountability and continued transformation.This episode challenges believers, especially those carrying spiritual leadership, to ask difficult questions about how they respond when truth reaches an uncomfortable place. Can you admit that you were wrong without immediately defending your intentions? Can someone question your methods without automatically becoming your enemy? Can you receive truth from an unexpected messenger? Can success coexist with correction, authority with accountability, and strong conviction with genuine humility? Apostle Bardwell establishes a sobering principle for every disciple: the greatest danger is not discovering that we were wrong, but becoming so prideful that we can no longer be shown where we are wrong. Teachability requires loving truth more than protecting our image and remaining humble enough for God to keep correcting, refining, and developing us.