Pride and Authority and Humility and Mercy

Coattailing - To sponge, to mooch, to skate by and do absolutely nothing but watch and then somehow still try to take credit for what you had little part in.

There's one in every group.  There is the person who let's the others do the heavy lifting and then stands near to take the credit.  The rest of the group decides that they don't want the project to fail so they pick up the slack.  A friend of mine once told me a story from a college class.  He was working on a group project thinking about how every group has that one person that seems to get stuck with all of the work.  Then he realized that it was him.  He was getting stuck with the work.

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The worst part is really not having to do the extra work, it's watching the coarrailers take the credit.  I mean what about credit where credit is due.

Sometimes we behave like coattailers in our walk with Christ.  Through Grace we've cleaned up our act a bit, but we act like it's all us. that we did this under our power.  

Grace means that we are riders on God's coat tails.  That's not only OK, it's the plan.  But we should remember who gets the credit.