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Overcoming Drama-Makers - Lessons Learned
Today, we’re going to continue in the series we’ve been in called No More Drama.
What I want to do this week is take you through some final steps that summarize what to do with the drama makers in your life.
I’m calling this message Keeping the drama-makers from making you crazy.
Before we look at those steps I want us to just pause and review what is a drama maker.
I could give you a list of a hundred different kinds of people.
But let me give you six of the most common.
Don’t look at them, don’t embarrass them, but these are different people that we have to work with and we have to live with and we have in our neighborhoods, our communities, soccer games and church and everywhere.
How do we deal with these different kinds of people?
Characteristics of Drama-makers...
1. Demanding
These are the little dictators of life.
The little Putins.
They’re bossy, they’re pushy, they’re controlling in every area.
They’re intimidating.
They dominate every conversation.
They turn every conversation into a power struggle.
They make unrealistic demands on your life, on your time, on your schedule and they just push, push, push.
They’re little dictators.
2. Disapproving
These are what I call the nitpickers.
They are picky, picky, picky.
They’re highly critical.
Your best is never good enough.
They always want more.
They tend to be negative.
They tend to be judgmental.
They’re unpleasable.
They’re perfectionists.
They love to point out your mistakes.
Disapproving crazymakers, no matter what you do it’s just not good enough.
That drives you crazy.
The nitpickers.
3. Deafening
They’re loud.
They are loud mouths.
I call these people the megaphones of life.
They are loud and they like to talk and they like to talk often in 120 decibels.
If you get a megaphone on the phone, you’re not going to get off for at least 15 minutes because they just keep talking and talking.
And they talk you into surrender!
To finally just go, “I give up.
Ok.
I give up.
You’ve talked me into the ground!”
They absolutely love to argue.
These are the megaphones.
4. Destructive
These are people who have uncontrolled anger.
I call them the volcanoes.
We’ve all had volcanoes in our lives.
It’s very easy to see them.
You never know when they’re going to erupt.
But when they erupt you know it.
They’ve got a temper like Mount Vesuvius or like Mount Saint Helens.
5. Discontented
They get their feelings hurt very, very easily.
They’re very touchy.
They’re very thin skinned and they whine a lot.
I call them the Cry Babies.
We all know cry babies.
They have a daily pity party.
They invite themselves and they like to moan and mourn, “Poor Me!”
And when they whine they kind of get that nasally sound, whining all the time.
And it just grates on you like fingernails on a blackboard.
These are the crybabies, the discontented crazymakers.
They are never happy.
6. Demeaning
These people are the smart mouths.
The smart mouths are the ones who are always running off at the mouth, and they’re rude and they’re insulting and they use caustic language.
Maybe they cuss.
More than just cussing and complaining and caustic language, they’re bubble busters.
They like to bust your bumble.
They like to tear your dream down.
They love to deflate you.
They love to tear you down.
They get particular joy in telling you how you don’t measure up.
They can be disrespectful and they can be petty and they can be mean.
These are the smart mouths.
And by the way, people who are rude all the time, they’re rude because they have enormous insecurities.
The more insecure person is, the more rude they tend to be.
What I want to do this weekend is I want to take you through a summary of verses of what the Bible says about how do you deal with these kinds of people in your life.
I’m going to give you six steps.
I’ve discovered in my own life that each step tends to get a little bit harder than the one before.
The first one’s hard but the second one is even harder.
And the third one is even harder.
But this is the way you deal with difficult people.
This is the way you counter the drama-makers in your life according to the Bible.
How to cope with the drama-makers in your life...
1. Refuse to be offended.
I refuse to be offended.
What I mean by that is I don’t take it personally.
No matter what they say, no matter what they do, no matter how outrageous their behavior is, no matter what they insult me with or how they act or react or the way they look with their body language.
When people are rude they are revealing themselves not you.
They’re telling you what’s in them not what’s in you.
When people are mean, when people are controlling, they’re not saying anything about you.
It doesn’t say anything about you.
It says about who they are.
It tells you what their problem is.
So don’t be offended by it.
It’s not about you.
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