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442 Is Pride always Bad?, Convos w/Mark

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Augustine wisely argued that pride is the root of all sin. That's a solid interpretation of biblical teaching but is that all there is to be said on the matter? Obviously not. We know that there are good people in our daily lives. We tell our daughters, when they are looking for a husband, to find a good man. We know people in our daily lives—jobs, workplaces, churches—who are pleasant, who have an excellent demeanor. Acts 11 describes Barnabas as good man. Were the apostles wrong to so describe him? Mark and I work through different elements of what it means to be good and include angles like salvation and goodness, the different directions in life toward balance, whether Jesus in saying "take up your cross and follow me" meant we should kill the self, and the different thresholds for determining unhealthy pride. Mark recounts pride of homeownership. Ed recounts having spoken about self-esteem at a college women's dorm floor meeting. Come, think and laugh with us about pride and the Christian worldview.

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Augustine wisely argued that pride is the root of all sin. That's a solid interpretation of biblical teaching but is that all there is to be said on the matter? Obviously not. We know that there are good people in our daily lives. We tell our daughters, when they are looking for a husband, to find a good man. We know people in our daily lives—jobs, workplaces, churches—who are pleasant, who have an excellent demeanor. Acts 11 describes Barnabas as good man. Were the apostles wrong to so describe him? Mark and I work through different elements of what it means to be good and include angles like salvation and goodness, the different directions in life toward balance, whether Jesus in saying "take up your cross and follow me" meant we should kill the self, and the different thresholds for determining unhealthy pride. Mark recounts pride of homeownership. Ed recounts having spoken about self-esteem at a college women's dorm floor meeting. Come, think and laugh with us about pride and the Christian worldview.

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