Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking or concentrating on one’s own advantage, pleasure or well-being without regard for others. Selfishness is putting our own wants, needs and desires before everyone else. It affects every aspect of our lives – it affects our actions, our words, our attitudes and our motives and it shows itself in our relationships, in our jobs and in the church. To deal with selfishness, we have to be deliberate about putting to death our selfish desires and not letting them control us. If we do that, and keep in step with the Spirit instead, we will find ourselves putting others first as Jesus taught us.