Don

One of the many ways one can feed one’s pride is to make a fuss about whatever one is working on.  I am working on this big and important project, so I must be big and important.  If people do not listen to me-me-me things will get much worse, etc.  We need to be careful to assess things correctly and not inflate them (or deflate them) just because we are working on them.

Also, we need to be very careful in disfellowshipping someone.  At the very least, we need to get with them and ask them how they understand the verses that seem to us to be relevant to a concern we might have.  If it is one of the puzzling verses, we need to be careful as one can be faithful yet not agree with us.