I mean that for self-criticalness as well. Like yesterday. After preaching, I felt two competing needs. The first was the desire to value what had happened, the good that was done, the presence of the word of God in the church through the sermon and the act of preaching. I really want to recognize and value that. Competing with that, though, is the need to develop and become a better preacher, which I think involves a level of self-critique. I know there are odds and ends of my technique, things that I could do to improve my level of skill in delivering the word.
So these two things compete, and I really try to balance them. It's really difficult, though.
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I don't think that these things need to necessarily be at opposite ends of the scale. You don't need to balance them, you need to fuse them, make them the same.
You can appreciate the word of God within your preaching, but still criticize your way of presenting it.
Self-criticism does indeed develop one's self more, and so you can use self-criticism to make sure OTHER people appreciate the Word in your teaching... because I think that in your mind, you can always see the truth behind your own message no matter how you present it.
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